Echo, the sustainable education building, taken into use

On 30 May, the sustainable interfaculty education building Echo will be put into use by teachers and students. As of the new academic year, all rooms will be scheduled and the catering facilities will be fully operational. 

A growing number of students in combination with the need for larger but also more flexible teaching spaces has led to the development of a second extra educational building: Echo. There will be a total of seven classrooms, which can largely be divided up flexibly. For example, three separate rooms can be made from the largest lecture hall of 700 places. Group work and self-study are possible in the more than 300 study places. 

Sustainable building 

Echo contributes to TU Delft's sustainability ambition to operate fully sustainably by 2030. It will be an energy-reliant building, including user-related energy such as power consumption for laptops, lighting and catering. Among other things, solar panels, good insulation and a heat/cold storage system have been used in the new building. Watch the video with all sustainability aspects here. 

A sustainable education building also requires sustainable furnishings. 90% of the furniture used has been reused. 

Additional facilities 

In addition to extra educational facilities, the building must also become an attractive place to meet. Longer opening hours and good catering facilities with various seating areas will contribute to this. The need for sufficient bicycle parking spaces has also been taken into account. There is a sunken bicycle basement under Echo with more than 600 spaces.