Infographic verkregen van HvA Urban Technology
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Elektrische vrachtvoertuigen in de stad
Elektrisch vervoer is een belangrijk onderdeel van het beleid van de gemeente Amsterdam om luchtkwaliteit in de stad te verbeteren en de CO2 uitstoot te reduceren. Stadslogistiek is een groot onderdeel van het vervoer in de stad en steeds meer bedrijven stappen over op Elektrisch vervoer. Maar waarom stappen bedrijven eigenlijk over op elektrisch vervoer? En waarom doen anderen dat niet? En wat is de rol van de gemeente daarin? Dit onderzoek is mede mogelijk gemaakt door financiering van KennisDC Amsterdam.
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Factsheet DISPATCH 2
Metropolitan areas with facilities for large events, such as the ArenA, have an important role to play in the application of intelligent energy systems. They have the potential for efficiency improvements and the integration of renewable energy sources.
The “Distributed Intelligence for Smart Power Routing & Matching 2” (DISPATCH 2) project will explore implemented solutions to verify advanced planning and network management mechanisms to tackle energy management. Verifying such solutions in a realistic test environment helps achieve rapid adoption and use of pioneering energy management solutions. By including large, dynamic energy consumers into this research, the project optimizes for better use in the future energy network.
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Amsterdam Zuidoost circulair: logistiek slim samenwerken
Een Cross Chain Control Center voor afvalinzameling en –verwerking in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
Hoe komen we tot CO2-neutraal afvaltransport? Tijdens dit onderzoeksproject in Amsterdam Zuidoost is een eerste stap in die richting gezet. Onderzoekers van TNO en de Hogeschool van Amsterdam slaagden er samen met partners SUEZ en Renewi in om in Zuidoost een deel van het afval duurzamer te transporteren.
Het afval werd efficiënter ingezameld, organisch afval werd lokaal gerecycled en het transport werd gedaan met een elektrische bakwagen. Tijdens de pilot waren er door slimme logistiek minder ritten nodig en lukte het de CO2 flink te verminderen.
Logistieke samenwerking
Met logistieke samenwerking in de transportsector kunnen verschillende doelen worden bereikt:
• het verlagen van logistieke kosten en verhogen van de efficiency;
• CO2-uitstoot verlagen, omdat minder transportbewegingen nodig zijn;
• minder congestie op de weg.
Aandachtspunt bij samenwerking is dat niet alleen de samenwerking als geheel voordelig is, maar dat ook iedere afzonderlijke deelnemer voordeel behaalt. Het willen delen van de voor de samenwerking benodigde informatie is een belangrijke voorwaarde voor succes.
In de praktijk blijkt dat ketensamenwerking stokt aan de top. Bedrijven hebben moeite de overstap te maken van interne naar externe ketensamenwerking.De Bes, J., & de Rijke, S. (2019). Amsterdam Zuidoost circulair: logistiek slim samenwerken: evaluatie pilot. TNO.
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Studiereis Stockholm Energietransitie
Main teams and topics for the study trip GreenIT to Stockholm:
- Infrastructure
- Sustainability and the energy transition
- Economic development:Learnings and Takeaway's:
- We are facing a serious (global) power availability problem mainly in big cities and transmission problem in rural areas because of the energy transition and rise of the data-economy. There is an urgent need for next generation power grid with more decentralization, smarter balancing of the grid, increasing efficiency, & greening of/by ICT.
- Problem is more complex than energy companies present. Urgent need for a tighter dialogue and collaboration between data centers and energy stakeholders (incl. gov.) and more thinking/planning ahead of energy and data infrastructure (spatial planning).
- Data centers have become part of a vital infrastructure for banks, healthcare institutions, hospitals, etc. Awareness of policymakers, administrators but also the public need to be raised. “Don’t think in terms of threats, but in terms of opportunities”.
- The social / human effect of digitalization (in daily life) but also the effect on spatial and energy planning are still though underexposed and need to be investigated in relation with energy use.
- We need not only to focus on energy efficiency (PUE) but also on energy savings in data centers and explore the social and economic impacts of power storage
- Stockholm is offering datacenters a good climate for economic development; energy transition and spatial planning with attention to legislation, funding, IPR, procurement, technical platforms (the City as a platform), (higher) education, culture and leadership.
- Interesting learnings from the EU Code of Conduct of Datacenters (best practices) and the EU Catalyst project.
The presentation of the Stockholm study trip can be found below.
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Organising Smart City Projects, lessons from Amsterdam
In recent years, a large amount of smart city solutions has been started in Amsterdam that contribute to the quality of life in the city. However, many of these solutions or initiatives do not succeed. Getting smart city solutions off the ground is not just about developing and applying technology: it demands new networking and management competencies. Solutions are not developed and implemented by one single company, but take shape in networks, at the intersection of technologies and industries, and with the involvement of citizens/end users. A team of five researchers systematically analysed 12 smart city projects in Amsterdam from three domains - energy, mobility and circular economy - and focused on questions as: - How do organisations with different agendas, collaborate on smart city projects? - What challenges do they face? - What kind of value is created? - How are risks and returns shared, and how are users involved? - What is the upscaling dynamic of smart city solutions, if any? - How can smart city projects be managed professionally? This publication is issued by Entrepreneurship, Urban Management and Urban Technology of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and has been established in cooperation with partner Amsterdam Smart City.
Find the report here: Hva.nl
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Naar een circulaire keten voor bulkmetalen
De Amsterdam Economic Board zet samen met haar partners in op hoogwaardige verwaarding van impactvolle rest/grondstofstromen en tegelijkertijd op het herontwerp van product- en productketens en hergebruik, veelal via inkopen en aanbesteden. Metalen is één van de geselecteerde impactvolle grondstofstromen in het grondstoffentransitie programma. In het document hieronder leest u meer over waarom een circulaire metaalketen moet en kan, welke kansen er liggen en welke drempels overwonnen moeten worden.
Circulaire transitie
We leven in een lineaire economie waar het systeem is ingericht op consumptie, eenmalig gebruik(vaak) laagwaardige recycling en (in Nederland) verbranding. De transitie naar een andersoortige economie gaat niet over één nacht ijs. Het zijn langzame, maar gestage processen, met belangrijke mijlpalen en successen onderweg. Aan de ene kant hebben we te maken met een bestaand systeem met de nodige beperkingen waarbinnen we optimaliseren en aan de andere kant zetten we vol in op systeem innovatie. Die twee paden bestaan in deze transitieperiode naast elkaar.De Board zet samen met haar partners in op hoogwaardige verwaarding van impactvolle rest/grondstofstromen en tegelijkertijd op het herontwerp van product- en productketens en hergebruik, veelal via inkopen en aanbesteden.
Metalen is één van de geselecteerde impactvolle grondstofstromen in het grondstoffentransitie programma.
De keuze voor de stromen is gemaakt op basis van de mate waarin grote volumes worden afgedankt, het milieubelastende karakter en de potentie voor hoogwaardigere verwerking in de regio. Onderliggende studie is uitgevoerd om meer inzicht te krijgen in de huidige ‘metaalketens’, in het potentieel voor circulariteit, en om de Board en haar partners ideeën aan te reiken om hoogwaardige verwerking van metalen (in gezamenlijkheid) mogelijk te maken.
Deze studie is geïnitieerd door de Amsterdam Economic Board, in het kader van het grondstoffentransitieprogramma van de MRA. Veel dank aan Robert van Beek, Gerard Wyfker, Jules Wilhelmus, Martijn van de Poll, Alex Verkuijlen, Michel Baars, Elmer Rietveld, Ted Luiten, Jan Henk Wijma, Hans Hage, Koen Meijer, Roger Steens, Menno Rubbens, Peter Rem, Pim Jonkman en Han van Son voor hun medewerking.
Het rapport is geschreven door Dr. Joppe van Driel.
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Circular Supply Chain for the City
Something unexpected is growing in the waters of Amsterdam: seaweed! What are these plants doing amidst the bustle of the city? They will provide the biomass for manufacturing new local goods using 3D-printing techniques.
The project team of ‘A circular supply chain for the city’ has researched the use of locally produced biomass, seaweed, for 3D-printing. After drying and grinding the seaweed wich was growing at Amsterdam’s Science Park, the powder can was converted into raw material for 3D-printers, the so-called filaments. In this way, several products could be made and replace traditional platic products such as for example cutlery.
Background
The rapid growth in global urban populations increases the pressure to find more sustainable ways of producing. To enable cities like Amsterdam to become more circular and sustainable, one must take a new look at the whole production processes. This way, one can devise methods for sustainable manufacturing capability and close local supply chains.
Designing a local supply chain
A technique that is well suited for designing, producing and using products in one locality is 3D-printing. 3D-printing is an ideal component of new decentralized production processes and can catalyze the upcoming circular economy. However, the materials needed for printing are currently imported and based on the traditional (bio)plastic industry, involving unknown sources, undesirable transport and emission in increasing quantities.
Local and biobased supply chains have the ability to make metropolitan areas more independent and result in an enhanced interconnectedness of various local suppliers of (bio)materials and upstream manufacturers.
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3D Printing in the Circular City
3D Printing in the Circular City explores the potential to provide an innovative way to reduce the municipal waste volume through recycling household plastics waste, locally with large scale 3D-printing.
The design failure of plastics
“Plastic packaging has a major design failure”, claim the lead researchers in the project Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, founders of The New Raw and researchers in the project 3D Printing in the Circular City at AMS Institute. “In most cases, it is used a single time, before throwing it in the trash. This results in the fact that 24,5% the municipal waste in Amsterdam is plastic”.Panos and Foteini strongly believe that the design failure in plastic packaging can be solved by reinventing, redesigning, and reimaging the material cycle itself. The current “make-take-dispose” economy is no longer sustainable. By managing plastic as a cycle, rather than the conventional linear supply chain, it is possible to create a spiral material loop which will constantly be fed with the plastic waste of cities.
New applications for recycled plastics
The project 3D Printing in the Circular City explored circular possibilities to expand the applications of recycled plastic. Studying how to turn plastic waste into a strong printing material was a major part of the research. Local plastic waste streams are examined and assessed to define their utilization patterns and recycling potential. The researchers tested a selection of materials in the laboratories of TU Delft to assess their mechanical properties. Plastics with the right mechanical properties are recycled into a material engineered specifically for 3d printing.The XXX Bench
Flexible, personal and on demand design for public space
Moreover, Panos and Foteini worked on designing 3D printed furniture for in public space, with participation of local communities and residents. This way, 3D printing enables (1) local production, (2) local recycling and (3) local participation in the design process. The furniture can be easily repaired and upgraded. They are recycled locally and used again to produce new designs.The 3D printed bench weighs approximately 50 kilos, which is almost equal to 1,5 times the plastic waste produced by an Amsterdammer in one year. Based on these numbers we could yearly produce 650.000 benches in Amsterdam. Yet, the possibilities for applications and designs with printing from recycled plastics are endless. 3D Printing in the Circular City provides a platform for the city of Amsterdam to locally build a unique public space, created from its own plastic waste, in collaboration with its own residents.
The benches were printed at Actual. Together with the other partners in the main project, AEB and TU Delft, AMS Institute is currently looking for ways to improve the process of waste collection on a neighbourhood level and exploring possibilities to co-create objects for the public space, together with residents.
Why a Circular City?
If we want more resilient, future-proof cities, it is very important to build our future on models that limit the extraction of raw materials and the production of waste. In Circular Cities, resources that drive human activities are by definition regenerative rather than linear or degenerative: be it energy, water, materials, nutrients or clean air. Meaning the focus shifts from gradual destruction of resource-value – “take, make, waste” – to value-creation through models based on cascades and cycles. The definition that circular cities are cities that understand, establish, monitor and control circular economy principles in an urban context, whilst realizing the vision of a resilient, future-proof city.This project is an AMS Stimulus Project. The aim of Stimulus Projects is to give to new and existing AMS partners support to innovative research that has a strong upscaling potential. The projects should realize short-term research output, which act as a catalyst of a new solution direction, concept or approach.
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The Circular Kitchen
The Circular Kitchen aims for a market-ready solution to be tested in social housing. It is a resource and energy efficient step towards a circular economy developed with Dutch and Swedish partners where current innovations fail to scale.
The kitchen as a component in housing is predominantly produced, distributed, used and discarded in a way that contributes to resource depletion, environmental pollution and avoidable greenhouse gas emissions. Kitchens are neither designed nor marketed to join circular economy ‘loops’ - a path where materials are reused and recycled. Kitchens also often do not meet changing needs of users. As a consequence, kitchens are disposed before their technical lifespan exceeds. To translate this missed opportunity to numbers: domestic energy consumption contributes to 21% of CO2 emissions where kitchen appliances are one of the main contributors.
The built environment such as in housing, presents itself as a challenge to society where the ultimate goal is to create a circular economy by 2050 in the Netherlands. The emphasis is still on waste management, which lies in the outer loop of the circular economy model. A more central loop or approach is possible. The circular economy model focuses exactly on this inner loop that targets maintenance, reuse and remanufacturing of goods to prevent waste from being created in the first place. First concepts are worth noting such as IKEA’s kitchen KUNGSBACKA made of recycled materials and Valcucine’s kitchen MECCANICA made to adapt to changing needs of uses. However, IKEA’s solution does not facilitate reuse and recycling and Valcucine’s kitchen is financially out of reach for many customers.
Still, the hope remains to allow for buildings that each consist of installations, kitchens, bathrooms and window-sills where each component is replaced by circular solutions during maintenance and renovation. This would lead to a bottom-up implementation of the desired economy in the built environment.
The Circular Kitchen as a Proof Concept
The proof for the circular economy principle is evident with the circular kitchen and heating boiler as developed and tested for feasibility in the “Circular Components in the Built Environment” project. The project is part of the stimulus projects with the explicit goal of proving two circular components: the Circular Kitchen and the Circular Plug-and-play Central Heating Boiler. The research focuses on buildings managed by housing associations, i.e. social landlords. They are a strategic primary target group, because these associations own 30% of the Dutch housing stock and have a substantial interest in implementing principles of the circular economy. Additionally the adaptability of the circular kitchen is of great value to the residents of social housing, due to the low investment costs and the reversibility of the adjustment. A systemic and integrated approach is key in developing the circular economy principles. For this, four interrelated models are developed in parallel: the technical model (design), the industrial model (supply chain), the financial model and the economic model where both short- and long-term scenarios are taken into account. Also, the Circular Kitchen project aims to develop the proof of concept to bring forth a large-scale example with further scaling potential to match deep retrofit projects in the Netherlands and Sweden.
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