Shaping our Environment
Many serious issues are facing our society today, mostly related to climate change and changes in our ‘energy landscape’, but also demographic and societal issues. We need to constantly adapt and (re)shape our environment in order to face challenges like these. Delft researchers combine the expectations and knowledge given to us by our data and models with creativity and engineering know-how to come up with solutions for a safe, sustainable, durable, economically viable and comfortable living environment.
Topics
The following research projects are typical for the Environment related 'shaping' research at TU Delft.
| Building with nature 'Building with Nature' is the name of a programme aimed at building up a body of scientifically based knowledge, expertise, resources and design concepts for the sustainable management of coastal, delta and riverine regions.
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| Sustainable and climate-proof city What makes a house, a neighbourhood or a city ‘sustainable’? TU Delft is working with a number of partners, among which the city of Rotterdam occupies a prominent place, to find concrete ways of making our cities climateproof.
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| Biorenewables
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| Governance and ethics Decision-making about the development of deltas in general, and about water management and infrastructure in particular, requires a complex balancing act between conflicting interests.
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| Real Estate and Project Management Renovation of office buildings, conversion of urban industry sites into housing, a changing position of the historical city centre in the real estate market: the property market is reeling with unprecedented activity. What is the best possible fit between supply and demand
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| Sustainable Housing Transformations
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| Materials Sciences and Sustainable Construction The challenge for the Materials Science and Sustainable Construction programme is to develop materials and structures which improve the quality of the environment. The programme focuses mainly on concrete which is perfectly suited to interact with the environment, to clean it, to serve as a barrier to noise and as a substrate for air-cleaning vegetation.
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