Digital Twin by Geodan

Digital Twin by Geodan

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Experience Brainport Smart District with the Digital Twin

Geodan has built a ‘Digital Twin’ of Brainport Smart District, an identical digital copy of reality.

When you make a virtual visit, you can see how the new district is going to look and truly experience and understand it. Smart 3D models based on a range of data give visitors a realistic look into the impact of the plans for the future.

Where do you position solar panels, rows of houses and cycle lanes? The Digital Twin makes ‘the District of the Future’ that BSD now still is, truly concrete.

Using the Digital Twin is a perfect example of how data is used in BSD. Geodan believes that linking data from the physical living environment to how residents experience it is crucial in order to make good choices in the layout of this environment.

The feasibility of the proposal is currently being investigated. If the outcome is positive, the proposal may well become a reality.

OWNER PROJECT

Geodan

PARTNERS

PROGRAMME LINES

digital district

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Sustainable solutions with LED lighting

Sustainable solutions with LED lighting

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Sustainable solutions with LED lighting

In modern society contemporary businesses are expected to contribute to increasing sustainability. LIC helps its customers to do this all over the world, with tailored sustainable solutions in LED lighting, building automation and sustainable energy solutions.

Lighting: the linking pin for information

The street lighting is managed using the Smart City Control System with which the complete lighting grid can be controlled with a simple click from anywhere in the world.

This system makes it possible to constantly monitor street lighting, obtain operational data in real time, and to decide flexibly for every unit when, where and how much lighting should be switched on, switched off or dimmed. In addition, the street lights can be equipped with a wide range of sensors to gather other types of information, such as air quality, danger, temperature, particulate matter, CO2 level, etcetera.

This will change a lighting system into a new global network, in which the lights become intelligent data carriers that can be used to activate various services to improve liveability and make the city smart, safe and sustainable.

The feasibility of the proposal is currently being investigated. If the outcome is positive, the proposal may well become a reality.

OWNER PROJECT

LIC Europe

PARTNERS

FourIQ

PROGRAMME LINES

social and safe district | digital district

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CASA students build experimental house

CASA 1.0

CASA 1.0: Innovation galore in social housing

CASA 1.0 is the first building to be built and delivered in The district of the future (2021). The complex consists of three innovative and social rental apartments. CASA stands for Comfortable, Affordable, Sustainable Alternative and was developed by a team of students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The students set the ambition of realizing a comfortable, affordable and sustainable alternative to social housing. The idea came from Antoine Post, a physics student. Despite hearing a lot about sustainable developments, he did not see this reflected in average housing. Together with other students, he decided to give shape to the ideas of designing a sustainable home. They founded the student team CASA and developed and built CASA 1.0 together with the Eindhoven construction company Hurks and housing corporation Woonbedrijf.

Preventing peak loads

The concrete-free complex – made of steel and fully reusable wood – has an innovative climate system. The secret behind this can be found under the house: namely a 104-cubic-metre water basin. The heat pump extracts heat from the house in summer, which is then used to heat the basin under the house. That heat is then used in the cold winter months to heat the entire house. Thanks to this system, there is no excess energy in summer or shortage in winter. Peak load on the electricity grid is thus prevented. The energy used by the heat pump comes from the energy roof, which generates both electricity and heat via a solar panel and solar water heater. CASA 1.0 thus effectively consists of three zero-meg houses.

The service core

The heating and various technologies come together in the heart of the house: the service core. To allow all systems to communicate and control each other, Team CASA designed its own control technology. CASA 1.0 consists of modular units with a minimal use of glue. This minimizes demolition costs and optimizes the re-use of materials. Concrete is deliberately not used because of its environmental impact. Thanks to the Smart Construction principle, material consumption, waste, and CO2 emissions during construction have been reduced.

Continuation in The district of the future

The concept of CASA 1.0 is now being further developed by Integer Technologies, a start-up by former students of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Woonbedrijf wants to realize several ‘CASA complexes’ in The district of the future.

 

More info on the home and technology can be found on the site of Integer Technologies.

You can also visit the site of Team CASA to see what projects the students are working on now.

OWNER PROJECT

Team CASA

PARTNERS

among the partners municipality of Helmond, ZonMw, and many others

PROGRAMME LINES

Circular district | digital district | district with energy

Health study

Health study

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Subsidy project ZonMw

How can a district encourage its residents – who have different backgrounds and abilities – mentally and physically to maintain and/or improve their health? In search of an environmentally focused approach to healthy districts, a consortium of eight partners led by professor  M. Mohammadi of Eindhoven University of Technology got to work to develop a knowledge agenda for ‘Space for Health’. This approach will be applied in the new part of Brandevoort, in Brainport Smart District.

OWNER PROJECT

Consortium of eight partners

PARTNERS

Eindhoven University of Technology, Tilburg Universiy – Tranzo, Stichting KIEN / KIEN Innovatiemeesters, Stichting Brainport Smart District, Municipality Helmond, Coöperation Slimmer Leven 2020, Peel Duurzaam Gezond, Sports & Technology, GGD.

PROGRAMME LINES

participation | healthy district

Urban vision UNStudio

Urban vision UNStudio

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The urban vision developed by UNStudio features a number of strips running from north to south that divide the area into several zones, each with a different building density. Shared facilities can be created in the district, such as kitchens, gardens, reading rooms and gyms. There will also be a mix of residential and work, with decentralised business space with offices and shared work spaces aimed at innovative collaborations. In the heart of the district will be a park of some 12 hectares with gardens, natural landscape and sports grounds. The park will be collectively owned by the users: everybody can become a member. At the fringes of the districts there will be 80 hectares for growing food (high-tech agriculture), water storage, nature and energy generation. Read the urban vision here (pdf).See our 3D visualisation here.

Read the urban vision here

See our  3D-visualisation.

OWNER PROJECT

UNStudio

PARTNERS

UNStudio, Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners, Metabolic, UNSense, Habidatum

PROGRAMME LINES

Digital district | circular district |district with energy | participation | mobile district| healthy district

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PLOTS LAB

PLOTS LAB

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Residents draw up joint plan for forty plots

In the autumn of 2018 we started looking for our first residents by calling for DIY plot pioneers to come forward. In this first ‘living lab’ 31 households are currently co-creating the first BSD district. They have found a location where they want to live together. The size of the plots is matched to the personal and shared (living) wishes of the future group of residents and their budgets. The plots project offers future residents a great deal of freedom, but we also expect them to take responsibility. The residents themselves are the initiators and therefore responsible for the realisation of their individual .collective dream spaces. This means they will have to think about and deal with water storage, energy-generating homes and public or shared green spaces. Watch our video

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OWNER PROJECT

Brainport Smart District

PARTNERS

PROGRAMME LINES

Digital district | circular district |district with energy | social and safe district |participation| mobile district| healthy district

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Living Lab with UNSense

Living Lab with UNSense

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Living in a learning city

Big data is big business. Businesses use personal data for profit, often without citizens’ knowledge. We want to change this. This project aims to study and develop new models in which the actual residents of the district rather than big business can profit from data. What if data were to be used for the good of the community?

UNSense wants to set the next step in planning and opinion forming on smart cities, and explore what a smart city, with all its processes and information, might actually look like.  For this, it introduces as part of Brainport Smart District a real life test environment of 100 homes consisting of a cross-section of society ranging from single householders to families and from young to old. In this district we will study together with the residents how data can be used to improve the living environment and people’s welfare in cities in psychological, physical, social and economic terms.

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OWNER PROJECT

Unsense

PARTNERS

PROGRAMME LINES

Digital district|

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Omines wants to build a data platform

Verantwoord gebruik van Data binnen BSD

Omines wants to build a data platform

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Smart city data platform

New possibilities by linking data

Just imagine: your alarm clock goes earlier because it is going to be a busy day, the traffic light turns green just as you get to it, street lights are off when there is no one outside, but light up when you are jogging past. Wouldn’t it be great if your windows shut automatically when a cloud of particulate matter floats by, and open when the air is fresh and clean?

The data platform makes it possible to share and combine data from all available sensors in real time. Data combinations allow us to develop new applications and make the district smarter. It would allow for data-driven police deployment, for making homes smarter based on data on energy consumption or air quality, and last-mile improvements.The data is shared and disclosed based on conditions set by the owner, which guarantees the privacy of the data owner and compliance with regulations. By remaining innovative and combining the latest and best tools, long drawn-out integration processes can be relegated to the past and security and privacy by design can be ensured. This will create an accessible data platform that is open to all. Director Niels Keurentjes explains the project in this video clip.

The feasibility of the proposal is currently being investigated. If the outcome is positive, the proposal may well become a reality.

OWNER PROJECT

Omines

PARTNERS

Eindhoven University of Technology|

PROGRAMME LINES

Digitale wijk | 

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Ageing in place with LIVin Concepts

Ageing in place with LIVin Concepts

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LIVin

Ageing in place

The total complex of factors – the shift from inpatient care to outpatient care, the ageing population, the increase of the number of people with dementia and the number of single person and two person households in addition to changing demands and wishes in the area of hybrid residential/care environments – must be brought together and translated in a new concept for homes for life: LIVin.

LIVin fills in the gaps between ‘living’ and ‘care’. Livin Concepts invests sustainably in homes as a carer and in the direct surroundings as a social ecosystem so that the home and the surroundings both contribute to preventing, solving and ameliorating the ailments that come with increasing age.Our choices for modular timber construction, energy-neutral construction with energy generation through solar panels, use of natural building materials, energy-efficient systems, use of domotica, wall finishings and use of colour reflect what we are trying to achieve: Sustainable living in a safe environment at an affordable price.

The feasibility of the proposal is currently being investigated. If the outcome is positive, the proposal may well become a reality.

OWNER PROJECT

LIVin

PARTNERS

COFFR, Eindhoven University of Technology, Vivent Het andere wonen

PROGRAMME LINES

social and safe district | participation| healthy district

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Net energy generating homes

Net energy generating homes

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Net energy generating homes
Net energy generating living aims for a self-sufficient residential district. That is to say that the district generates all the energy it consumes.

In fact, more energy than is needed for heating, hot water and all electrical equipment in and around the house. The residents can use the extra energy for example to charge their electric car. It is important that the surplus energy is stored and shared with other residents, so that no energy is lost and there is always enough energy available for every single household within the district. Every house has its own circular home battery. These batteries are collected to a collective ‘smart grid’, in which the residents can share energy throughout the district. Using smart software, ‘off-grid’ demand and supply are matched the best way possible. By clever matching of generation, storage and consumption the district is fully self-sufficient in terms of energy. In this clip director René Beks talks about the houses.

The feasibility of the proposal is currently being investigated. If the outcome is positive, the proposal may well become a reality.

OWNER PROJECT

Hendriks Coppelmans Bouwgroep

PARTNERS

PROGRAMME LINES

district with energy | mobile district