Dissertation title: Synergetically Integrated Vertical Farms: reducing energy and resource use through synergies between vertical farms and cities.Research part of the Sky High project (NWO funded).First, we assessed the current carbon footprint of vertical farming systems in the Netherlands in comparison to its conventional agriculture forms. In the next phases, we analysed the potentials to improve this carbon footprint by creating synergies between vertical farms and the built… Show more Dissertation title: Synergetically Integrated Vertical Farms: reducing energy and resource use through synergies between vertical farms and cities.Research part of the Sky High project (NWO funded).First, we assessed the current carbon footprint of vertical farming systems in the Netherlands in comparison to its conventional agriculture forms. In the next phases, we analysed the potentials to improve this carbon footprint by creating synergies between vertical farms and the built environment. Here, the main focus to integrate vertical farming systems with urban energy systems: supplying the residual heat produced in vertical farms to district heat networks and attuning the electricity use of the vertical farm according to the abundances and shortages of (renewable) electricity in the electricity grid. Show less

Researcher chair Climate Design & SustainabilityResearch projects related to the energy transition of the built environment ranging from building towards city scale.

Various calculations in the field of building physics and the energy performance of buildings