"Distinctive by Versatility"
 
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Michael Braungart has become a visiting professorship at the department of Building Technology at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. He did gave an inspiring lecture in the spring of 2011.

Nomination
It was a big surprise to receive a letter stated that I was nomination for the best lecturer of the year 2011. Finally I received a silver medal for the second best lecturer at the faculty of architecture from the Technical University Delft for the year 2011. I was nominated by the students something that gives me proud and wonderful feeling.

This book will be published at the end of 2011 for my contribution in this book see chapter 13 of the content as indicated at the end of this information.

Impacts on Health
Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Vol. 56
Rassia, Stamatina Th.; Pardalos, Panos M. (Eds.)
1st Edition., 2011, XIII, 367 p. 119 illus., 66 in color.
• Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4419-0744-8
Due: November 28, 2011
€ 109,95

• ABOUT THIS BOOK

The chapters in this book, written by international experts from different fields of architecture and engineering, are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. The invited contributions focus on new ideas, concepts and research work with multidisciplinary applications.

Special features of this volume include indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort, modeling and assessment of multi-scale design dynamics, as well as new results from diverse areas of research spanning from architecture and engineering to neuroscience and public health.

Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture is intended for graduate students and researchers of architecture, engineering, neuroscience, public health, social and computational sciences, architectural modeling and related fields.

Content Level » Research

Related subjects » Applications - Engineering - Environmental Health & Public Health - Mechanical Engineering - Sustainable Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Sustainability and Neuroscience (J.P. Eberhard).- 2. Behavioral Science Perspectives on Designing the Environment to Promote Child Health (M.E. Sharff, E. Gerfen, K.P. Tercyak).- 3. Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture (E.A. Edelstein, E. Macagno).- 4. Active Transport, Building Environment and Human Health (T. Sugiyama, M. Neuhaus, N. Owen).- 5. Environmental Control and the Creation of Wellbeing (S. Manchanda, K. Steemers).- 6 Design of Healthy, Comfortable Energy Efficient Buildings (C.A. Roulet, P. Bluysssen, B. Muller, E. de Oliveira Fernandes).- 7. Environmental and Behavioural Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning use in Athens and London (L. Chatzidiakou, A. Pathan, A. Summerfield, D. Mumovic).- 8. The Influence of Weather Conditions on Pedestrians’ Behaviour and Motion, with Respect to Queues in Outdoor Urban Areas (I. Tzouvadakis, A. Stamos).- 9. The Health of Informal Settlements Illness and Thermal Conditions (M. French, J. Gardner).- 10. Live Urbanism, Towards Sensible Cities and Beyond (B. Resch, R. Britter, C. Ratti).- 11. Computer aided Analysis of Pedestrians’ Motion Behaviour Using Video Frames Live Urbanism (I. Tzouvadakis, A. Stamos, D. Vassilaki).- 12. Sustainable schedule of Hospitals Duffle Coat theory (W. Fawcett).- 13. Philosophy About the Quality of our Indoor Climate (L. de Ruijsscher).- 14. Impacts on Health: Variety of Problems and Problems of Variety (M. Samimi, M.Y. Nili, S. Seifi).- 15. Forming Building Blocks Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions (W.French and S. Meyer).- 16. Advantages of the Vertical Farm (D. Despommier).- 17. Restoration-Preservation in an Urban Environment and Seismic Stability of the Statues of Athena and Apollo on the Forefront of the Academy of Athens (A. Kounadis, N.Makris).- 18. A Health Damage Pattern Due to Street-Level Pollution in the Central Paris Area Estimated with the Turbulence-Resolving Model (I. Esau).- 19. Les ecoquartiers en France (P. Lefevre).-

November this year I was invited to give a lecture on sustainability at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy at Sofia, Bulgaria. Although the picture is a little vague it shows the lecture room and the attending students. It has given me a warm feeling to notice the broad interest on this subject.

August 2011

Congratulations on the inaugural speech on the 5th of March 2010 for my new professor at the Technical University Delft. It is a great privilege to work with him in the chair Climate Design and Sustainability of the Faculty of Architecture. Now the world is struggling with enormous problems as global warming, financial crises, the urgent need for new energy concepts and new ideas about designing healthy indoor environments, I find myself in the middle of this challenging revolution. Both my preference for integrated design and the exchange of science and codes of practice are an important tool hereby and crucial elements.

August 2011

Seminar 2010 at Corpus Leiden

These pictures show my participation in a lecture and forum discussion about the healthy indoor environment in school buildings. Another well known participant was Prof. David P. Wyon form the Technical University of Denmark. The major objective of the discussion was the awareness of changing the former architecture with high ceiling classrooms into lower ones, without comprimsing the health of the indoor climate. The knowledge to have an optimal climate design based on new sustainable principles has finally been accepted by the politics. Now the regulations and funding has to follow. More of these seminars are necessary to guide this new revolution in the field of education!

November 2010

At the celebration of the tenth anniversary of PTG
(Pieterse Terwel Grevink)
www.ptg-advies.nl
I was one of the guest speakers. PTG is one of the leading building management consulting firms in the Netherlands. Their field is health care in a wide field, from university hospitals to nursing/retirement homes and special treatment and care facilities in wich the organisation of the particular institution forms the startingpoint for PTG's consultancy.

May 2010

During the Closing Conference on the subject; Improving Engineering Consultancy Sector in Ankara Turkey. Three Senior Consultants, from left to the right Jos van Veen Royal Haskoning, Leo de Ruijsscher De Blaay- Van den Bogaard Raadgevende Ingenieurs en Fred Schelleman from Grontmij, are giving their reviews on the earlier performances during the year. At the back the wife of the ONRI director Paul Oortwijn is situated. Part of the results is the friendship between the Dutch ONRI and there Turkish sister ATCEA.
June 2009.

December 2009

At the end of February the trainings, workshops and seminar have been held in the capital of Turkey Ankara. It was very refreshing to participate in these events and to receive the enthusiastic replay on the seminar from the audience. Also the involvement in the trainings and workshops created added value and the debates held were democratic and larded with humor. A contribution wich finally resulted into a warm teamwork between the ONRI, the members of ATCE and the broad audience existed out of civil authorities, architects, consultants and various institutes whereby Universities were involved ad well.

The forum of the trainings

Having workshops

Leo and his Turkish colleague Hülya debating during the workshops

The seminar on Resurge and Development

The audience

A part of the audience together with the forum

July 2009

December 2008, the preparation of training and seminars for the coming year has been started. The European committee has asked the ONRI to assist there sister organisation ATCEA to promote the use of private consultancy. Therefore training on the policy to use private consultants and seminars in research and development are required. The photograph shows a part of the delegation from Holland and the colleagues from Turkey at the head office of ATCEA at Ankara.

July 2009

13th of May 2008 a black day, the faculty of architecture at the Technical University Delft burned down. I could not imagine the impact it would have on my work with the students at that time. Now I found locations to give lectures and exercises in many different faculties. Sometimes, it is wonderful to be a guest in the faculty of aviation, civil engineering or the building for examinations. But in many cases we (lecturers and students) have to use all our creativity to transfer knowledge and find new ways. But overall we are grateful that we can make a contribution to our society.

January 2009

During a reception at the office of STUDIO ACHT architects Gerald de Jong give his remarkable presentation called DARWIN AT HOME. It is all about computer modelling showing that evolving on structures in a space of vitural reality. Also a link to the architecture was briefly discussed. In coherence with the computerised way of designing byour famous architect Kas Oosterhuis it will be the future!

Darwin at home Click here

September 2008

The release of the book; Trend 21 and Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture. For download see 'Memberships'.

To see the new brochure, De Kunst van het vernieuwend en intergraal ontwerpen (The Art of Innovative and Integral Design) Click here

March 2008

In the month October we held a knowledge transfer lunch session in our office. How to improve our internal and external communications!
For pictures Click here

March 2008

Next month i am intended to visit a the firm Radhe Renewable Energie at Rajkot India for assistance by the development of there prototype Hot Air Generators working on alternative energy concepts with different biomass fuels. For more information www.radhegroup.com
Providing solutions for a better tomorrow.

December 2007

Recently the 28th of June i was invited as a guest speaker for the RotaryClub at Capelle aan den IJssel. For me it was a great success to find a group of enthusiastic people who i like to participate in the philosophy of our world and the perception of our indoor climate. For reference see the attached minutes of meeting by the secretary of the RotaryClub Click here

October 2007

Recently there are discussions with Swegon air academy about the possibility of organising a seminar in the spring of 2007 concerning the quality of our thermal indoor climate for Architects. www.swegonairacademy.com

July 2007

At the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 I will follow the Commissarissencyclus 13 at the NYENRODE Business University. www.nyenrode.nl. This special program is organised around six themes: juridical-, ethical-, quality-, economical- and international aspects of a commissionership.