B. Techniques
For a Sustainable innovative approach of the built environment
Research projects
B1 Water Sustainable in the design
Researchers: Ir. P.G. Teeuw PDEng, Ir. A.A.E. Luising
Programme: (will be part of Sustainability TM&T 006)
In cooperation with: dr. S.P. Tjallingii and ir. L.J.J.H.M. Gommans
The research focuses on ways to handle Sustainable with water in architectural and urban design. The research evaluated how one can deal with water in architectural and urban design, and emphasizes the advantages to see water as a ‘challenge’ to deal with in order to achieve environmental advantages. The first results of the research were published in a book in the end of 2005. The research has been completed in 2008 and is published in an updated book. In the follow-up changes in today’s practice will be watched.
B2 The prospects of nanotechnology for new materials and energy production:
Researcher: Ir. A.T.M. Westgeest
Programme: - (project has been completed)
This project explores the options for buildings with a moving skin that follows the position of the sun in the sky or the occurrence of rainstorms, using nanotechnology to detect changing environments.
The project has been completed and is presented at the international conference Plea 2004 in Eindhoven.
B3 Passive Houses
Researcher: Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Schuetze
Programme: - (to be determined)
Feasibility Study for the Realization of Houses with an extreme low service energy demand in the Republic of Korea and The Peoples Republic of China.
Experiences in Europe with so called “Passive Houses” show that houses with an extreme low service energy demand can be realized with comparable small effort compared to common building practices. These houses can be realized with approximately 5 – 10 % additional construction cost of common buildings but only have 10 % of the average energy demand of the existing housing stock. This includes heating, hot water, and electricity for household appliances as well as for the required mechanical ventilation system. Hence the area wide application of these building practices could contribute significantly to the reduction of Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. While in Europe, thousands of those houses have been already realized in the last 15 years, there are yet no experiences in the Republic of Korea and in the Peoples Republic of China. The feasibility studies will be the basic condition for the realization of Passive Houses these East Asian Countries in the framework of new urban Developments.
The first phase of the project was running in 2007. The results were presented at international conferences and in conference proceedings. The publication of books is planned from 2009. The second phase of the feasibility study, which is focussing on the Peoples Republic of China is running from 2008.
Co-operation with: Korean Heating Housing Corporation (KHHC), Korean Institute for Energy Research (KIER), Korean Institute for Construction Technology (KICT), Prof. Dr. Lee, Pil-Ryul (Seoul Open National University, Center for Energy Alternative), Lee Hyun-Ha (Architect), Zhou Zhengnan (Tsinghua University Beijing) and other partners which have to be identified in the framework of the ongoing project.
B4 Sustainble Building Construction 2
Researchers: Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Schuetze and Loriane Mina Icibaci
Programme: Sustainability (C2C&B 002)
Optimizing the Sustainability of Building Constructions for different building types in different countries. The aim of the project is the development of tools for decision support and capacity building for the design, construction and service of regional adapted sustainable building constructions, with a focus on resource flows during construction, service renovation and deconstruction of buildings. The starting basis of the research is that the building construction sector is responsible for a big part of consumed resources worldwide. The method is the qualitative and as much as possible quantitative analysis of typically building constructions, materials and components as well as construction and deconstruction methods in different countries and areas. Furthermore the basic conditions (including social, economical and environmental issues) are analysed. Based on the analysis, the potentials for the reduction of resource flows for the reduction of the service energy demand in the building construction sector are investigated and regional adapted strategies for different building construction sectors are developed.
B5 Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Urban Environments
Researcher: Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Schuetze
Programme: Sustainability (I&N 005)
The first phase of the research project was running from 2007 to 2008. The result was published in an international scientific publication for and in close cooperation with UNEP IETC and in cooperation with a number of national and international water experts in a Sourcebook, entitled ‘Every Drop Counts - Environmental Sound Technologies (ESTs) for urban and domestic water use efficiency. The second phase of the project is planned from 2009 to 2011 and will focus on capacity building, planning and implementation of ESTs in Asia, Africa and Latin America in cooperation with various international partners. In cooperation with the international alliance on sustainable sanitation (Susana) the production of an international scientific publication on sustainable sanitation in cities is ongoing. The book will be presumably published in October 2009.
Co-operation with: (amongst others) TU Delft, faculties of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Technology, Policy and Management; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Water Use and Waste Management, Water Research Commission, South Africa; Water department in The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD), Syria; Science, Technology and Environment Section, Delegation of the European Commission to China; Institute of Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico; Water Resource Planning and Conservation (WRP), South Africa; Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan; Environmental Management Centre, India; International partners of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance, International Water Management Institute, EAWAG Sandec, gtz, Swedish Water House.
B6 Innovative Climate Adaptive Urban Design by decentralization of Urban Infrastructures
Researcher: Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Schuetze
Programme: Sustainability (I&N 004)
Facilitating innovative Climate Adaptive Urban Design by the decentralization of Urban Infrastructures with a focus on water and energy related structures and systems. The Subject can be differentiated basically in: 1) Remodelling of existing urban areas which are already connected to centralized infrastructures. 2) Design of new urban areas equipped with innovative decentralized infrastructures with numerous advantages compared with conventional centralized infrastructures. The research project is under preparation and is planned to start from 2009.
Cooperation with: City of Rotterdam, Maria Marotta (PhD) and other partners which have to be identified
B7 Plant grown roofs
Researchers: Ir. P.G. Teeuw PDEng
In co-operation with: dr. ir. C.M. Ravesloot (Hogeschool Zuyd)
Programme: (will be part of Sustainability TM&T 006)
What’s the effect of plant grown roofs (in practice often named as green roofs) in the build environment. Update of the (long-term) research done during the years 1988-1998 about the (environmental) effects of these roofs.
