Blog
22 November 2019
Smart and sustainable greening of the urban environment with De Klimaatstraat (The Climate Street)
We increasingly have to deal with extreme rainfall, that alternates with longer periods of drought. This has an increasing impact on our living environment, especially in citi...
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29 October 2019
An innovative testing ground in Houten
Various climate-adaptive solutions have been applied in this innovative testing ground in Houten.
Many urban districts have become very grey over the years as gardens have be...
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10 October 2019
Cycling on the water with B'rain
Why don't we build the cycling path on top of the canal instead of next to it? That would save space and money. This revolutionary vision comes from B’RAIN, a collabora...
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10 October 2019
TreeParker helps to rediscover the Coolsingel allure, Rotterdam
Unique soil cells give plane trees a second life. (Photo: Adriaan van Dam)
The Coolsingel is a boulevard in Rotterdam. But the allure that the nineteenth-century promenade on...
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9 July 2019
There is no such thing as an intrinsically deep rooted or shallow rooted tree species
There are numerous publications on the root plate dimensions of windthrown trees, and while published data are plentiful, studies of mature tree root systems that have not bee...
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