Nibs

The minister said the award was meant to encourage Rijcken’s “further development as an extremely gifted researcher and artist.” The award, which is presented each year to a talented young scientist, artist or performer by a committee of ten European Rotary Clubs, includes a cash prize of € 10,000. As a student, Rijcken’s academic career took him to three different universities, including the prestigious Stanford University in the US. In 1997, he graduated with distinction from TU Delft, having received the highest mark possible. He went on to pursue a career in industrial design engineering, but has also made extensive studies of civil engineering, urban design and architecture. He is also a gifted writer and photographer. Rijcken applies his many talents to finding creative solutions to the effects of climate change on human environments, particularly with regards to water. He is also the author of several books.
Happy hour

The Sports and Cultural Centre will host a special Architecture Benefit Happy Hour at the 2008 Summer festival in response to the Architecture Faculty fire on 13 May. From 16:30 to 17:30, all purchases will be ‘3 for the price of 2’. All staff and students of TU Delft are welcome to attend. Half of the proceeds of the benefit happy hour will be donated to help support activities for restarting the Faculty of Architecture.
Please return

Having received several reports from people who have found books, papers and other materials of architecture students and staff in their gardens, in public gardens, or even in meadows surrounding the Delft area, TU Delft asks people living in the surrounding area to please return any such items to the university, because these items could be valuable research material that may have taken years of hard work to complete. Please do not throw anything away. You can return any items to the TU Delft Aula.
Storing CO2

Nature can remove CO2 from the atmosphere in only one stage: CO2 mineralization. During his inaugural address at TU Delft, Professor Hans Geerlings outlined the aims to develop an accelerated version of this process so as to allow large-scale storage of CO2. Geerlings emphasized the importance of technology capable of capturing CO2 and storing it away from the atmosphere. Estimates indicate that we could store at least 100 years’ worth of our CO2 emissions underground. This is possible, for instance, in geological formations deep under the earth’s surface. However, Geerlings plans to investigate an alternative storage method. “I have always learned a lot from Mother Nature,” he says. “On our planet we have not only the well-known biological cycle, but also an anorganic cycle which plays a role in stabilizing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.” Geerlings will focus on the mineralization of diluted CO2 flows, or in other words industrial flue gases. “If this research is successful,” he says, “it will lead to an alternative CO2 capture and storage process that can be applied parallel to geological storage deep underground.”
Evaluation

At the instigation of the mayor of Delft, an evaluation of the circumstances surrounding the fire at the TU’s Faculty of Architecture will be conducted. The evaluation will primarily focus on evaluating who was involved in the fire fighting and disaster management efforts on the day of the fire, how the delegation of duties were performed, how the communication channels worked, and what can be learned from the disaster? The evaluation must be completed before the July 21 summer recess.
Eco-Runner

With their lightweight aerodynamic prototype, TU Delft’s ‘Eco-Runner Team Delft’ competed in the Shell Eco-marathon. The race, held from May 22 to 24, took place at the Nogaro racing track in southern France. The goal: to drive as many kilometers as possible on the least amount of fuel. The TU Delft team finished in sixth place in the category for hydrogen-driven prototypes. “Not bad,” Dante Rogiest, team manager of Eco-Runner Team Delft, said. “But we can still do much better.”

Rotary club

TU Delft engineer Ties Rijcken, an expert on the subject of floating buildings, received the Leonardo da Vinci Award from Dutch Education Minister Plasterk on 24 May 2008. The minister said the award was meant to encourage Rijcken’s “further development as an extremely gifted researcher and artist.” The award, which is presented each year to a talented young scientist, artist or performer by a committee of ten European Rotary Clubs, includes a cash prize of € 10,000. As a student, Rijcken’s academic career took him to three different universities, including the prestigious Stanford University in the US. In 1997, he graduated with distinction from TU Delft, having received the highest mark possible. He went on to pursue a career in industrial design engineering, but has also made extensive studies of civil engineering, urban design and architecture. He is also a gifted writer and photographer. Rijcken applies his many talents to finding creative solutions to the effects of climate change on human environments, particularly with regards to water. He is also the author of several books.
Happy hour

The Sports and Cultural Centre will host a special Architecture Benefit Happy Hour at the 2008 Summer festival in response to the Architecture Faculty fire on 13 May. From 16:30 to 17:30, all purchases will be ‘3 for the price of 2’. All staff and students of TU Delft are welcome to attend. Half of the proceeds of the benefit happy hour will be donated to help support activities for restarting the Faculty of Architecture.
Please return

Having received several reports from people who have found books, papers and other materials of architecture students and staff in their gardens, in public gardens, or even in meadows surrounding the Delft area, TU Delft asks people living in the surrounding area to please return any such items to the university, because these items could be valuable research material that may have taken years of hard work to complete. Please do not throw anything away. You can return any items to the TU Delft Aula.
Storing CO2

Nature can remove CO2 from the atmosphere in only one stage: CO2 mineralization. During his inaugural address at TU Delft, Professor Hans Geerlings outlined the aims to develop an accelerated version of this process so as to allow large-scale storage of CO2. Geerlings emphasized the importance of technology capable of capturing CO2 and storing it away from the atmosphere. Estimates indicate that we could store at least 100 years’ worth of our CO2 emissions underground. This is possible, for instance, in geological formations deep under the earth’s surface. However, Geerlings plans to investigate an alternative storage method. “I have always learned a lot from Mother Nature,” he says. “On our planet we have not only the well-known biological cycle, but also an anorganic cycle which plays a role in stabilizing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.” Geerlings will focus on the mineralization of diluted CO2 flows, or in other words industrial flue gases. “If this research is successful,” he says, “it will lead to an alternative CO2 capture and storage process that can be applied parallel to geological storage deep underground.”
Evaluation

At the instigation of the mayor of Delft, an evaluation of the circumstances surrounding the fire at the TU’s Faculty of Architecture will be conducted. The evaluation will primarily focus on evaluating who was involved in the fire fighting and disaster management efforts on the day of the fire, how the delegation of duties were performed, how the communication channels worked, and what can be learned from the disaster? The evaluation must be completed before the July 21 summer recess.
Eco-Runner

With their lightweight aerodynamic prototype, TU Delft’s ‘Eco-Runner Team Delft’ competed in the Shell Eco-marathon. The race, held from May 22 to 24, took place at the Nogaro racing track in southern France. The goal: to drive as many kilometers as possible on the least amount of fuel. The TU Delft team finished in sixth place in the category for hydrogen-driven prototypes. “Not bad,” Dante Rogiest, team manager of Eco-Runner Team Delft, said. “But we can still do much better.”