News
19 February 2019
TU Delta: Capturing the heat from below
Foundations for a new building at the Green Village contain 40 metre long tubes to exchange heat with the soil. Researchers will monitor the ‘energy piles’ in action.
14 February 2019
New MOOC: Zero-Energy Design: an approach to make your building sustainable
Learn how to get to a net zero energy use of an existing building.
04 February 2019
A new approach for the fast estimation of the solar energy potential in urban environments
TU Delft researchers have developed a new approach for calculating fast and accurate the solar energy potential of surfaces in the urban environment. The new approach can significantly help architects and urban planners to incorporate photovoltaic (solar power) technology in their designs. The findings were presented on Monday 4 February in Nature Energy.
23 January 2019
How sustainable is electric heating? Laure Itard does the math
The gas industry is being phased out and the trusty gas boiler will need to be replaced by electric forms of heating. Energy epidemiologist Prof. Laure Itard (Architecture and the Built Environment) calculated the CO2 emissions. Is electric always sustainable?
19 December 2018
Building Market Briefs: de Europese bouwsector in kaart gebracht
Het EIT Climate KIC-initiative is een Europese kennis- en innovatie community die zich inzet voor een snellere overgang naar een CO2-vrije economie. Henk Visscher, hoogleraar woonkwaliteit aan de TU Delft, is een van de initiatiefnemers om een serie rapporten, de 'Building Market Briefs' over de gebouwenvoorraad, relevante regelgeving en beleid in diverse Europese landen, uit te brengen voor innovatieve ondernemers.