As attentive followers of ATELIER might know, COVID happened just a few months after ATELIER had started. This restricted the in-depth exchange between partners and particularly cities. When in-person meetings were finally possible again, we organized our first...
On March 28 and 29, a technical site visit took place in the city of Bilbao. Initiated by the technical partners from Amsterdam, some of whom had not seen any of the Bilbao activities in the ATELIER project yet, met with their Bilbao counterparts. The first day...
When it comes to mitigating climate change and its effects, cities play a crucial role as they are responsible for 78% of the world’s energy consumption and 60% of the greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the following article "Holistic fuzzy logic methodology to...
Interviewer: Hello Ravi, thanks for meeting with us! Tell us a bit about yourself and your role in ATELIER. Ravi Singh: I am Ravi Singh and I work for DNV – one of the partners in ATELIER. The department I’m part of focuses particularly on energy systems. We are...
Our cities are constantly changing and developing in response to the needs of the population and the surrounding world. Climate and sustainability concerns are currently driving a transformation of the urban environment towards local green energy production and new...
European cities face three big challenges: 1) climate change mitigation and the transition to climate neutral cities, 2) moving towards a circular society and economy, and 3) reducing the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, such as increased...
One of the consequences of Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine taking place on the other side of Latvia's borders, has been to precipitate what is shaping to be a real energy crisis, after a dramatic rise in energy prices affecting every single resident of...
In 2020, Matosinhos achieved the decarbonisation target set for 2030. Compared to 2009, the year in which the Municipal Energy Matrix was prepared (considered, therefore, the starting point for carbon neutrality), carbon emissions were reduced by 40.2 %. Energy...
After years of preparation in a turbulent time, the shovel went into the ground last November for the realization of a work and living building in the PED in Buiksloterham called Poppies. Before the outbreak of Covid and the war in Ukraine, Poppies' design was the...
With the start of the ground works in November 2022 for the circular building Poppies, a major milestone has been reached. This achievement resulted in more demand for actual construction details from the various ATELIER partners. Poppies pays attention to the...