From 30th August to 2nd September NRGlab member Roberta Pistoni will attend the 2016 IENE conference Integrating Transport Infrastructure with Living Landscapes in Lyon, France. Roberta has been selected for a presentation of Dutch cases studies on the application of the ‘urban metabolism’ approach in planning and design. This part of her research has been developed during a research internship at Wageningen University in the...

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From 11 to 14 September 2016, the ECLAS conference named Bridging the Gap will be held in Rapperswil, Switzerland. NRGlab member Roberta Pistoni’s contribution entitled “Application of urban metabolism approach in energy landscape design” has been accepted for presentation. Roberta will attend the conference organized by European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools and represent the NRGlab in Switzerland....

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On the 23rd of March, Tom van Heeswijk defended his Master thesis at Wageningen University: Shaping solar energy for an energy neutral Zeeburgereiland in Amsterdam. Local oppositions to wind turbines and solar parks are often related to visual impact and hampers renewable energy developments. In his research, Tom examined which factors influence the perception of renewable energy in general and the perception of four Dutch solar energy projects...

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Recently, a video has been released on some of the the key findings of the Urban Pulse project in Amsterdam. The animation focuses on the consumption of bottled drinking water as a means to reveal some of the complexities of the urban metabolism from source to sink. Watch the video...

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From 9 till 11 December NRGlab researcher Ilse Voskamp attended the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment conference (SASBE) in Pretoria, South Africa. There she presented selected results of the Urban Pulse research project (2014 -2015), one of the three kick-start projects of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS). In her SASBE presentation, Ilse discussed what information on resource flows is needed by utility...

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