LILa Green Infrastructure is collaborating with Green Panels. This is a startup developing extensive green roofs that can be mounted on solar panel attachments on sloped roofs. In this fashion, the sunny side of a sloped roof can be fitted with solar panels and the less sunny side with green roofs. However, it is still unknown what the performance is in terms of energy savings and water retention. We aim to build a test site at the University of Twente to measure these factors.
Today is World Meteorological Day, celebrating the origin of the World Meteorological Organization since 1950. The theme of this year's celebration is "The Future of Weather, Climate and Water across Generations".
Thanks to the WMO the world has global programs for flood management, disaster risk reduction, emergency response, atmosphere watch, climate observing systems, data-processing and forecasting systems, hydrology and water resources, instruments and methods of observation, and numerous other topics. Freely accessible, accurate, and complete records of weather parameters greatly help determine the performance of green infrastructure in the LILa-GI project, which is why I take the time to appreciate we have such resources available to us to build upon for our own research.
Next month, on Thursday 13 April, from 10:00 - 14:30, at the Design Lab UTwente, anyone interested can come learn more about the current state of the art in blue-green infrastructure. There is special opportunity for students and businesses to interact. The event is held in Dutch with translation to English available.
VU Amsterdam and UTwente are co-organizing this from the funding received for our joint program titled 'Towards climate-proof cities with innovative blue-green infrastructures'. The workshop is titled in Dutch 'STAD EN NATUUR: De transitie naar natuurinclusief stedelijk gebied met blauwgroene infrastructuur in Twente'. Registration and program details can be found here.
Students of the VU Amsterdam performed a multi-stakeholder analysis for the Living Innovation Lab - Green Infrastructure as part of the course Mulit-stakeholder management, part of Business administration - specialization Strategy & Organization, led by Katinka Quintelier.
The report made by Sietse Minnema, Emily Liu, Lorenzo Borghetti, Aoibhín O’Raw, and Lisa Kuiks contains not just a stakeholder analysis but also a pathway of steps to be taken to successfully engage interested stakeholders in the coming months, thus providing a set of concrete tasks and corresponding timeline towards enlarging our consortium.
This report, and those of other students, did not just examine and evaluate relevant stakeholders but also identified specific people within the relevant organizations to contact, which greatly furthers the progress of LILa-GI overall.
Finally the book in which Joanne and I have a chapter is now physically published. You can find the order details here and read not just our...
