Davide Zanon

Sweco's collaboration with White Lioness technologies and IGG Bouweconomie created SolarParking. This parametric tool lets you add solar panels to your parking lot to cover and power electric cars.

Bowerbird is a Grasshopper plug-in that prepares your 3D model for laser cutting. Now hosted on Packhunt.io, Bowerbird splits and flattens your 3D model to let you print and re-assemble it into your desired shape.

Last week, Grzegorz Adamski and Sebastiaan Veldhuisen told us how and why the partnership with White Lioness technologies began. Today, they're here to tell us what they gained from it and about the future steps in this collaboration.

White Lioness technologies and Walraven began cooperating to build a product configurator for Walraven's products line. Grzegorz Adamski and Sebastiaan Veldhuisen from Walraven, joined us today to tell us more about this partnership.

Engineer Djordy van Laar introduces us to the use of parametric design, in cooperation with White Lioness technologies, to better estimate the construction cost of your projects.

For the Aanbouw Expert, house extensions are a cheap method to give new life to your home. Packhunt.io helped them digitising this process through parametric modelling. The result lets you customise the materials, dimensions and quotes of your ideal house extension with a simple click.

Weight optimisation analyses are the norm to cut steel structures' costs. For White Lioness technologies, I interviewed engineer Rayaan Ajouz to learn about the present and future of parametric design for steel constructions.

Earth’s primary resources are finite. Human inventiveness, however, isn’t. At TU Delft’s laboratories, Francesco Di Maio is working on the recycling of concrete waste. Just like the Phoenix, the mythological bird that rises from its own ashes, Di Maio wants new concrete buildings to arise from their predecessors waste.

The Google Home scandal is a recent example of AI playing dirty. TU Delft experts share their take on our responsibilities with sensitive data and AI development.

Science editor Davide Zanon shares his experience of what comes next after graduating from TU Delft and the challenge of finding meaning in our fast-paced society.

“Fast, cheap or good. Pick two.” Over the past decades, developing countries’ governments preferred the fast-and-cheap formula for affordable housing. To reverse this trend, Assistant Professor Nelson Mota and PhD candidate Brook Teklehaimanot survey habits and dwellings to co-design spaces with people.

The TU Delft Bicycle dynamics lab has prototyped a steer-assist electric bike to make riding fall-proof. “Our priority is people’s safety,” says Professor Arend Schwab.

Dutch Concrete bridges are getting old and wrinkly. For this reason, Assistant Professor Yuguang Yang started studying how to detect cracks in concrete with sound. Its revolutionary measurement technology can lower maintenance costs and better regulate transport.

The Netherlands has an indissoluble relationship with water. Nowadays, 2400 km of waterways flowing through its veins use timber retaining walls along their banks. A more eco-friendly solution than brick or concrete but, still, not as sustainable as it could be. PhD candidate Abhijith Kamath is researching how to use tree roots to strengthen waterways’ banks to make Dutch channels greener in every way.

“The Notre-Dame can be rebuilt and open a new chapter for co-creation for European society,” said TU Delft Professor Uta Pottgiesser and Assistant Professor Frank Koopman.

Heating our homes is warming up the Earth too. Associate Professor Phil Vardon and PhD candidate Ivaylo Pantev want to warm or cool buildings through their pile foundations, by using the natural temperature of the soil. If done well, this technology can help residents to save energy, money and problems for generations to come.