In today’s city environments, extreme weather conditions are a fact of life. Amsterdam, Mumbai, Nairobi or Sydney… climate change issues need to be tackled all around the world. In the last couple of decades, Amsterdam has dealt with larger amounts of rainwater, severe heat stress and a decreased biodiversity. …

Veel gemeenten en waterschappen willen weten of hun klimaatadaptieve maatregelen op lange termijn nog voldoende regenwater bergen en infiltreren. Onderzoek in Tilburg leert dat de infiltratiecapaciteiten van groenblauwe maatregelen sterk verschillen in ruimte en tijd, maar voldoende zijn om het water …

Kelvion refrigeration B.V is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heat exchangers, who provide solutions for almost every industrial application imaginable, working in an engineer to order fashion to provide the customers with the utmost ability to customize their products. In theory, 9 weeks …

This applied research project aims to generate a better understanding of the effects of heatwaves on vulnerable population groups in the municipality of The Hague, and suggests ways in which the municipality can help such groups to cope with these heatwaves. The research was performed as a cooperation …

De Vruchtenbuurt is een buurt gelegen in Den Haag. Een prachtige buurt met woningen gebouwd in de jaren 30. In de Vruchtenbuurt is de Cooperatie Duurzame Vruchtenbuurt drukbezig met het werken aan de duurzaamheidsambities van gemeente Den Haag. Zo is de Vruchtenbuurt een van de eerste buurten om woningen …

A major target of the European Green Deal is to raise the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target to 55% compared to 1990. This high ambition includes an increase of the energy performance of buildings and additional generation of renewable energy in all sectors. The tertiary sector, including …

In practice, faults in building installations are seldom noticed because automated systems to diagnose such faults are not common use, despite many proposed methods: they are cumbersome to apply and not matching the way of thinking of HVAC engineers. Additionally, fault diagnosis and energy performance …

In the Netherlands municipalities are searching for guidelines for a heat resilient design of the urban space. One of the guidelines which has recently been picked up is that each house should be within a 300 meter of an attractive cool spot outside. The reason is that houses might get too hot during …