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Urban heat islands, a growing problem

4 december 2019admin
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Urban heating, or at least the increase thereof, has been in the spotlight for some time. And the basic effects were known to me. But after hearing a lecture by Math Santamouris during a recent Conference, a whole new world… Continue Reading →

architecture, building, climate, CO2, housing stock, materials, smartcities, solar energy, urban

Transition: charging points madness

11 augustus 2019admin
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Amsterdam needs around 50,000 charging points for electric cars. 50,000? Really? Have we gone completely nuts or what? Doesn’t alarm bells start ringing: “What the hell are we doing?” Where do all these raw materials come from, and the energy… Continue Reading →

climate, CO2, future, innovation, materials, politics, resources, smartcities, transition

How (and why) to avoid high-rise buildings…

18 mei 2019admin
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Architects love to be able to design and build an iconic tower. And a city counselor can leave his signature with it. Well, it happens that the world is urbanizing, and that we see a lot of high-rises in planning,… Continue Reading →

architecture, CO2, embodied energy, energy, politics, smartcities, society, urban

Circular cities..? Real time material flows for London

11 februari 2019admin
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Since it looks as if we are going to introduce the climate measures for buildings mainly via municipalities or cities, I have recovered some of my older research material about urban sustainability, developed when I worked at Wageningen University. The… Continue Reading →

architecture, building, circular, Embodied Land, materials, politics, resources, smartcities, system boundaries, tools, urban

The end of the ‘road’…

6 oktober 2018admin
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The national organization for road works in the Netherlands, RWS, has a slogan: from A to Better. It has not brought us much so far: The roads are widened, more traffic lanes , so now we are not in a… Continue Reading →

circular, energy, resources, smartcities, society, transport

Vertical F(r)a(r)ming …

28 mei 2018admin
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There are some strange excesses in the need for more sustainability, and especially with regard to the undefined “greening” of things. One of these, and you notice it more and more, is the tendency to plant trees on buildings. Not… Continue Reading →

architects, architecture, building, materials, smartcities, urban

the energy ‘Jouliette’ : Swapping real value with blockchain

17 februari 2018admin
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Recently I wrote about the Bitcoin, and other crypto currencies, as being the clothes of the emperor. They represent “ NOTHING”. Have no other value as ‘faith’. Which will become problematic, when it turns out there is no ‘heaven’. No… Continue Reading →

0-energy, circular, CO2, economy, energy, future, innovation, resources, smartcities, technology

Sharing – leasing, a good idea? On value and quality

12 juni 2017admin
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Many solutions are ‘invented’, to improve our resource consumption patterns, and reduce climate change. And we are very creative. One of the solutions is the ‘Sharing economy’. But does this have a real effect, is what I wonder? I came… Continue Reading →

smartcities, society, sustainable, urban

A Smart City has a emergency plan…

2 april 2017admin
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I love to be in cities. The bustling life, the choice in restaurants, the observing of people from a terrace with a special beer in front of me… I mean, I discovered that the cities most lovely attractions are mobile… Continue Reading →

blog, future, population, resources, smartcities, society, urban

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chair and organiser 1 st World conference Sustainable Building (SB2000, Maastricht)
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honorary member of the Chinese academy for Science and Technology, Wuxi, PRChina
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