Today, we head to the City of Enschede to visit the University of Twente. We started with a campus tour, during which we learned about the college. Twente is modeled after a traditional college campus, with lots of open space and the educational buildings being located in the east, while residential living is in the west….
Tag: Plus 3 Netherlands
Day 2: Living on the WATER-EDGE
Day 2 was a very busy day for us; we visited a tulip farm, a community of floating houses, and a company called EDGE. EDGE is a building firm focused on making some of the most sustainable buildings. They prioritize sustainability, low CO2 emissions, getting people into the office, and building a lasting impact. They…
Entering Enschede
Our group began the move to our second location of the trip today: Enschede. This is where the University of Twente campus is located and where we will attend lectures, tour a different type of city planning with different needs, and meet other university student engineers. Our first stop was a lecture on waste water…
Clogs, Windmills, and Everything Dutch
We began our fourth day in the Netherlands by traveling outside of the main city of Amsterdam to a windmill farm surrounding a small town that acted as a museum. We walked around the entire area, seeing what the original windmills looked like before they became the white wind turbines around highways that exist today….
Floating Across Amsterdam
To start our busy day, we drove to a tulip farm where we learned about the process of growing tulips and the importance of them for many Dutch farmers. While some farms grow tulips to sell the flowers, the farm we visited and most of them throughout the country prioritize growing the tulip bulbs underneath…
The Hunt for Sustainable Textiles
After catching up on the rest we missed the day before, the entirety of the Plus 3 Netherlands group was ready to go on the second day of our trip. Our agenda for today: scavenger hunt across the city and a visit to the House of Denim, a company whose main focus is making jeans…
To Amsterdam and Beyond…
After a long day of traveling, we finally arrived in the Netherlands at around 5:30 in the morning. Despite our exhaustion, we made it to several stops within Amsterdam to start our journey throughout the country. Our first adventure within the city was a canal tour of central Amsterdam. We had the opportunity to see…
Landing in the Netherlands
Today we arrived in the Netherlands (at 5:16 A.M)!! Immediately I was shocked by how walkable everything was. This was crazy to see especially because the U.S requires transportation vehicles. This ability to walk around allowed us to check out many different food places, museums, and shops in just an hour. Later on in the…
Almost to Amsterdam…
An Introduction: I’m Stephanie Anderson, a structural engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. Growing up in San Francisco, California, I am no stranger to towering skyscrapers and long bridges. I love breaking down the fundamentals of these structures and not only how they are built from the ground up but the math and planning…
Day 11: Sky-High Sustainability
Today, we took a short five-minute walk to Dakakker, a building in the heart of Rotterdam that features a 1000 square meter farm on top of a room, with smart irrigation systems, beehives, and chickens. The building itself used to be an insurance firm, but now is the Center for Environment and Center for Architects….