Campusvision TU Delft (EN) by TU Delft

the vision for the campus

as of 15 July 2013

the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

Foreword In which direction do we want to take the campus in the coming years? This seems a simple question on the face of it. And the answer seems simple too: towards a campus that suits the ambitions of TU Delft. However, the question of how to implement this vision turns out to be rather complex. In these coming years we will be investing in a lively campus. It will be a Living Campus where students, scientists, support staff, entrepreneurs and visitors feel at home, and an environment that includes all the facilities they need in order to study, work, live and reside in a pleasant and effective way. Unsurprisingly then, it is the user who is central to the Campus Vision. The various wishes, requirements, needs and perspectives of the user have been the subject of discussion in several places in the organisation and serve as the basis for our elaboration of a vision for the development of the campus in the coming years. This vision forms the starting point from which the concrete plans can be developed. Naturally this is a dynamic process; we will reserve room for adjustment by regularly testing this vision according to future developments. Furthermore, the academic world is not unaffected by the consequences of the economic crisis. Universities have been forced to tighten their belts owing to developments including a decline in government funding. This is also the case for TU Delft, and we will have to operate more efficiently. This reality has also been taken into account in the campus vision. Naturally we would prefer to spend our money on our primary tasks: education, research and knowledge valorisation. TU Delft's property must support excellent education and research. Ageing property must therefore develop in line with performance, because leaving it unchanged is a costly scenario. That is why we are utilising the available floor area as efficiently as possible, increasing the multifunctional use of buildings and building as sustainably as possible. Naturally, we will start by replacing or improving accommodation where it is needed most. We will combine this with iamprovements in the layout and organisation of the entire campus and an upgrade of the other educational support facilities. In this way we will work together to build a futureproof campus that provides optimal support for education and research while offering an attractive environment to students, scientists, support staff and entrepreneurs.

Dirk Jan van den Berg President of the Executive Board of TU Delft the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

CONTENTS 1

Introduction ...................................................................................... 7 1.1 Reason for campus vision ......................................................... 7 1.2 Aim of campus vision ................................................................ 8 1.3 Note to readers......................................................................... 8 Delft University of Technology ....................................................... 10 2.1 TU Delft mission and vision .................................................... 10 2.2 Trends and developments ...................................................... 12 2.3 TU and the Municipality of Delft ............................................ 14 2.4 The TU Delft community......................................................... 16 Starting points for the TU Delft Campus ........................................ 19 3.1 Sufficient high-quality facilities for education, research and valorisation ......................................................................................... 19 3.2 Lively campus with space for people to interact .................... 20 3.3 Pleasant working environment .............................................. 22 3.4 Safe and healthy learning, working and living environment .. 22 3.5 Easily accessible campus ........................................................ 22 3.6 Sustainable campus ................................................................ 23 3.7 Excellent and efficient campus ............................................... 24 Accommodation ............................................................................. 26 4.1 Educational space ................................................................... 26 4.2 Research space ....................................................................... 26 4.3 Office space ............................................................................ 28 4.4 Public space ............................................................................ 28 4.5 Buildings ................................................................................. 28 4.6 Coordination of supply and demand ...................................... 29 Property strategy ............................................................................ 30 5.1 Investing in facilities for the primary processes ..................... 30 5.2 Essential support facilities ...................................................... 30 5.3 Preconditions for investments ............................................... 32 5.4 Detailing of sub-areas ............................................................. 32 33 5.5 Campus-wide programmes .................................................... 34 5.6 Dynamic property strategy ..................................................... 34

the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

1 INTRODUCTION The ever-increasing world population and the struggle to achieve ever-higher levels of prosperity raise major issues for society. Today's university of technology is a source of new scientific insights and pioneering technologies, which play an indispensable role in solving these issues. It trains engineers who, with their advanced expertise and know-how, are vital to our society and economy. These engineers develop the science-based technological solutions that help improve the lives of large numbers of people. As such, universities of technology are catalysts of innovation and economic growth. The same is true for Delft University of Technology. TU Delft makes significant contributions towards creating a sustainable society for the 21st century. How? By conducting ground-breaking scientific and technological research which is acknowledged as world-class, by training scientists and engineers with a genuine commitment to society and by translating fundamental knowledge into innovations and activity with both economic and social value. TU Delft is an open academic community that is at the very heart of society and is rooted in our regional and national, social and economic environment. Through its academic staff and alumni, TU Delft is also represented throughout the global academic community.

1.1 Reason for campus vision Tu Delft scores highly in international university rankings and wants to continue to do so. Several buildings are approaching the end of their useful life, providing an opportunity to further achieve this ambition through accommodation. Therefore TU Delft is making substantial investments in the quality of the campus through new construction and renovation. This will enable us to improve the standard our accommodation so that it fits with the leading position of TU Delft. This complex optimisation process is characterised by many different views both within and outside TU Delft, which influence the development. The challenge now is to enable these different aspects to lead to a single campus that supports the TU Delft community as a whole. Working towards such a Living Campus is a lengthy process. The scope of the intended investments in property will have a major impact on the financial management of TU Delft. Because accommodation has a static nature, the choices made will have long-lasting effects. This makes a long-term framework for campus development both desirable and necessary. The campus and educational support facilities require a clear vision with regard to the future of the campus (where do we want to go?) and the accompanying strategy (how will we get there?).

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1.2 Aim of campus vision The campus vision serves as a guideline for the development of the TU Delft campus. In this vision TU Delft aims to identify as many aspects as possible within the university that influence the campus and to combine these in a framework-defining vision on the development of the campus. This campus vision will be used in guiding the day-to-day management, drawing up accommodation policy, accommodation plans and working out the details of TU Delft's property strategy. The vision has been integrated in a working document called the campus atlas. This document addresses the accommodation policy in more detail.

1.3 Note to readers The campus vision comprises the vision on the development of the entire TU Delft 'estate', meaning the area covered by the whole campus, including the science park Technopolis Delft. This area can be divided into three zones, each with its own identity and programme: TU City, TU Science and TU Business. Section 2 describes how TU Delft sees itself and for which community the campus is being developed. Section 3 addresses the requirements and wishes of this community with regard to the TU Delft campus and TU Delft's vision on how the campus should function. Section 4 describes the current campus. Section 5 describes the strategy that is being followed to enable the current campus (Section 4) to fulfil the future vision set out in Section 3.

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Campus atlas The campus atlas is a working document that paints a picture of what is described in the campus vision. The campus vision is intended as a shared impression of the campus and its development in the coming years. The atlas uses various maps to illustrate how the campus can develop in the coming years, where the facilities should be localised and how they can be incorporated in the infrastructure of landscape, traffic structure and urban planning context. The campus atlas provides an impression of the inventory (what is there?), the vision (the impression for the future) and the strategy (the approach). It is also a dynamic document that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;movesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with the actual modifications on campus (buildings, grounds and immediate vicinity).

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2 DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Delft University of Technology aims to continue to offer a full range of highquality disciplines, research and study programmes in the engineering sciences while maintaining its unique facilities. By doing so TU Delft wishes to maintain its prominent global reputation as a university of technology regarded as a world leader by its peers. TU Delft also wants to be a university that is held in high esteem thanks to the excellent engineers educated there (MSc and PhD). It also wishes to be considered an innovative collaborative partner on the basis of its high-level expertise obtained through practice-driven questions. Furthermore, it wants to be a university that fosters new activities and whose education and research make a significant contribution to a competitive economic environment.

2.1 TU Delft mission and vision ‘TU Delft's mission is to make significant contributions to creating a sustainable society for the twenty-first century by conducting groundbreaking scientific and technological research that is recognised as world-class, by training scientists and engineers with a genuine commitment to society and by translating fundamental knowledge into innovations with both economic and social value .’ As a catalyst of innovation and economic growth, TU Delft's vision features three core tasks, namely: • Education– The training of internationally recognised, outstanding engineers who are a source of innovation and economic growth; • Researchers – At TU Delft researchers conduct fundamental research, which leads to solutions to major social issues; • Valorisation - Businesses and knowledge institutions regard TU Delft as an innovative collaborative partner for the development of new technologies. In addition, the university is a place that fosters enterprise and whose research and education have a significant impact on a competitive economic environment. TU Delft wants to be a place where academics and students think in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary terms, and where the combination of science, design and engineering is the primary driving force behind teaching and research. The university wants to continue to be an inspiring and gender-aware institution, to which the best scientists and most talented students flock from all over the world to fulfil their potential. TU Delft has the most complete range of engineering sciences in the Netherlands and trains approximately half of the country's science and technology students. Nearly 100% of the engineers trained in Delft find employment within a year of completing their degree. TU Delft aims to maintain these positions.

the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

2.2 Trends and developments TU Delft is facing major developments in society. These developments influence the primary process and therefore the development of the campus. Although these developments often form new opportunities for TU Delft, a few developments are threatening to disrupt the university's primary processes. A list describing the developments which TU Delft is taking into account in order to take advantage of opportunities and reduce threats (Roadmap TU Delft 2020) is included below. •

TU Delft participates in a global knowledge network of educational and research institutions. TU Delft encounters a great deal of competition from emerging knowledge economies (particularly Asia) and substantial worldwide competition for scientific talent as Dutch students and researchers are increasingly opting for careers abroad. However, this globalisation also provides TU Delft with opportunities to attract and link international students and researchers to TU Delft.

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Universities must work together and form alliances – at the global, European, regional and sectoral level – in order to be able to compete nationally and internationally. The 'South Wing' (Zuidvleugel) forms an important network for TU Delft. This is an alliance whose members include the municipalities of The Hague and Rotterdam, the regions Holland Rijnland, Drechtsteden, Midden-Holland, the Hague Region (Stadsgewest Haaglanden), the Rotterdam Region (Stadsregio Rotterdam) and the Province of Zuid-Holland. The aim of this partnership is to further develop the southern Randstad region into one of the top economic regions in Europe, with an attractive and cohesive climate for both residents and businesses. The map opposite shows the relationships between the partners in this network.

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Throughout the world, the engineering disciplines are becoming more and more tied up with fundamental science. Given its own ambitions, this is something TU Delft actively encourages.

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Currently the Dutch higher education system is undergoing reforms. Universities are increasingly focusing on quality and developing their own clear profiles, specialising in specific ‘Top Sectors’.

The universities in the Netherlands are dealing with uncertainty with regard to government funding. Termination of the basic grant in particular will have a significant impact on the study programmes chosen by students and thus on government funding. The introduction of a new national funding allocation system is only increasing the unpredictability of the future situation. TU Delft is committed to increasing quality and maintaining the number of students.

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2.3 TU and the Municipality of Delft As well as responding to the social and technological developments in society, TU Delft must take into account the developments of the physical environment around the campus. With the Municipality of Delft and other partners, the university will invest one billion euros in the knowledge economy in the next five years. Furthermore, 2500 homes and 5000 student apartments will be created in the next ten years. The number of jobs available at TU Delft, knowledge institutions and knowledge-intensive companies will grow from 16,000 to 30,000 in the next 20 years. The more than 20,000 students of TU Delft and universities of applied sciences provide a constant influx of top entrepreneurial talent. The joint ambition of TU Delft and the Municipality is summarised in the memorandum ‘'Delft provides the technology of the future' (Delft levert de technologie van de toekomst‘) (2012). Relationship between the campus and the city centre Knowledge workers, researchers and employees of TU Delft and the universities of applied sciences and employees of knowledge institutions and high-tech companies all have their own wishes with regard to housing and recreation. In addition to the existing supply of homes in the historic city centre and the surrounding neighbourhoods, new space for housing is being created in the Railway Zone (Spoorzone) in the heart of the city – above the railway tunnel that is currently under construction. The northern part of the campus, in particular, links up directly to these areas. Relationship to businesses Exact already has offices in science park Technopolis Delft – in TU Delft's back garden – and the new offices of 3M and Applikon Biotechnology are currently under construction. There is a wide range of locations and multi-tenanted buildings in the region for knowledge-intensive companies and institutions. In addition toYES Delft! Other locations in the immediate vicinity of the campus are ‘Creative city’ , for small companies in the city centre, the Biotechcampus on the DSM site and ‘City Centre: the Railway Zone and the city centre’. Relationship to other institutions Besides the offices of well-known institutes such as TNO and Deltares, the western part of the campus provides accommodation for the technical study programmes of two universities of applied sciences, with a new senior secondary vocational education (MBO) programme in technology to be added in the near future. These study programmes provide an optimal connection for students wishing to pursue higher and university education. They also respond to the demand for technical talent from the companies in the Clean Tech Delta, Medical Delta and the Greenport. Accessibility TU Delft will work with local and regional authorities with regard to the accessibility of the campus. An example of this is the improvement of the ring road around the campus and the construction of the high-quality public transport link, tram line 19. Furthermore, as the competent authority, the municipality enforces traffic safety and security within the campus boundaries. the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

2.4 The TU Delft community The TU Delft campus accommodates a unique combination of students, scientists and support staff. Although we share a common goal, we all (as a group and individually) have our own requirements, wishes and needs, which TU Delft aims to take into account as much as possible. Based on an inventory, a number of 'personas' were developed for TU Delft, as groups of people with similar requirements and wishes can be distinguished within the total population. These personas ensure that the target group consists of more than just abstract terms. These personas make it possible to work on a campus vision for realistic, recognisable people. They make it possible to relate to the TU community more easily and to develop the campus vision and property strategy in a more targeted manner. The requirements and wishes that these people have for the campus follow from their different characteristics. They indicate what they expect from the services provided by TU Delft and which facilities and provisions they need in order to be able to excel in their field of study, tasks or work. Along with the expectations of collaborative partners and the mission and vision of TU Delft, these expectations form the basis for the vision on the TU Delft Campus. Aspects such as why people spend time on campus, the extent to which they are flexible or bound to specific locations and whether they work on their own (soloists) or with others were considered in describing the personas. This does not mean that individuals can be pigeon-holed; the personas were used as a tool to work out out the details of the campus vision. By taking different profiles into account, the various facilities can be provided in response to the wishes, requirements and needs of the individual at the time. To illustrate this, the different types of occupant or user (or combinations thereof) found on the TU Delft campus are outlined below. Students â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TU Delft provides education to students from the Netherlands and abroad, many of whom study, reside, recreate and live on and around the campus. Our student population includes four types of student: (1) the student who enjoys student life and who seeks peace and quiet on campus in order to study without being distracted; (2) the student focused on his or her studies who comes to the campus for appointments and for group work; (3) the multitalented student who wants to know what is expected of him or her and comes to the campus for lectures; and (4) the student looking for fun who comes to the campus to interact and work with people. Academic staff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Depending on the passion, the talent, the assignment and/or the motives of the individual, TU Delft has divided the academic staff (full professors, associate professors, assistant professors, etc.) into four types of people who use the different facilities: (1) the 'crafts(wo)man' who is bound to a specific location and works on his or her own, (2) the 'mentor' who has a lot of contact with students and frequently works with other staff members, (3) the 'backpacker' who works on his or her own and does not require a fixed place on the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

campus, and (4) the inspiring staff member who is always linking ideas, people and knowledge and consciously chooses do so some of this off-campus. Support staff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A university cannot operate without staff members who support and manage its primary processes. This highly varied group of people comes to the campus to work but also needs to relax at set times. These staff members can also have particular requirements and wishes with regard to their working environment, based on their job description, personal preferences, etc. The support staff has also been divided into four types to determine which facilities are needed: (1) the employee as 'the face of the organisation' who comes to a fixed place on campus to carry out day-to-day activities in which he has a lot of contact with people, (2) the connecting employee who consults and works within a team to solve problems from a fixed location, (3) the employee who serves as the right-hand man for research and education and comes to the campus for meetings and appointments with colleagues, and (4) the creative developer who draws inspiration and ideas from people on campus, frequently works together with them and is highly flexible in terms of workspace. Other occupants and users â&#x20AC;&#x201C; several other groups can be identified in addition to the categories mentioned above. This includes alumni and PhD students (research and work experience), visitors (work-related or recreational) and entrepreneurs of types including the backpacker and the networker. Collaborative partners are also important occupants and users of the campus. TU Delft works with educational and research institutes in the Netherlands and abroad. TU Delft maintains contacts with government authorities, trade organisations, consultancies, industry and small and medium-sized enterprises. Examples of companies are TNO, which currently has offices on campus, and of course YES!Delft, where many of our student-entrepreneurs launch spin-off companies.

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3 STARTING POINTS FOR THE TU DELFT CAMPUS An impression of how this campus should function will be formed from the perspectives of students, researchers, staff members and collaborative partners, in combination with the vision and ambitions of TU Delft. The Campus Vision indicates what TU Delft wants to achieve with the campus and forms the starting point for the further development of the campus.

The Executive Board has outlined the desired TU Delft Campus as follows: • • • • • • •

providing sufficient high-quality facilities for education, research and valorisation an attractive and lively campus with space for people to interact a pleasant working environment a safe and healthy learning, working and living environment an excellent and efficient campus an easily accessible campus a sustainable campus

These descriptions serve as starting points for the campus vision and will be described in more detail in the paragraphs below.

3.1 Sufficient high-quality facilities for education, research and valorisation The main purpose of a campus is to facilitate the primary processes of the university. The users do not want to have to worry about the availability of the facilities they need in this respect. This applies not only to the quantity of educational and research facilities, but also to the quality thereof. The campus vision therefore includes sufficient scope for students and researchers to excel in education and research.

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3.2 Lively campus with space for people to interact TU Delft wants to be attractive to Dutch and international students, researchers, staff members, businesses and visitors. In order to remain attractive now and in future, the TU Delft environment must provide what these groups need. That is why the requirements and wishes of the users, in particular, play a key role in drawing up and working out the details of the vision on the campus. Besides sufficient facilities, these users want an inspiring environment in which they can study, interact, work, reside and recreate; in short: a Living Campus. Interacting with other students, researchers and collaborative partners plays a key role in this inspiring environment. Sharing in the designs and ideas of others and discussing problems and solutions together contributes to the development of knowledge. Inspiration can also come from the physical environment of the users. The campus must therefore consist of a mixture of bustling and quiet areas, with plenty of greenery. Occupants and users of the campus no longer expect only the core facilities, such as shops, restaurants and services (for example dry cleaners or child care facilities) to be in order. Airports and railway stations without good services, good shops and restaurants are inconceivable today, and this increasingly applies to universities and their campuses. There is a need for different facilities, on different scales, on the campus grounds and in the buildings. These must form attractive places to come together, to eat, drink or work, thus drawing the user groups of TU Delft out of their faculties and homes. These facilities can also improve connections between between occupants and users from TU Delft North, Central and South. Facilities can be a reason for people to stay in or move away from an area. The buildings of the future will no longer be autonomous entities with their own facilities, but will serve a greater area. Facilities in a faculty will be shared and will vary in terms of set-up according to the location. This will be done in order to encourage and facilitate interactions, collaboration and the sharing of facilities. In addition to the possibility of interaction, the campus must offer a varied programme of science, business, culture and recreation. Due to the location of the campus in the city of Delft and the direct relationship to its surroundings, locations for these programmes will develop naturally: TU City, TU Science and TU Business.

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TU CITY CROWD PULLERS URBAN LANDSCAPE HOUSING AND FACILITIES CULTURE AND SCIENCE SOCIETY AND SCIENCE

TU SCIENCE ACADEMIC LANDSCAPE MIXTURE OF BUSINESSES SPORTS & CULTURE CAMPUS HOUSING

TU BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL LANDSCAPE KNOWLEDGE VALORISATION WITH ACADEMIC MIXING TECHNOPOLIS

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TU City, TU Science and TU Business Within the elongated site of the campus, three zones are developing naturally, each with its own identity, through differences in accommodation and nuances in the programme. ď&#x201A;ˇ TU City This zone in the northern part of the campus has an urban programme and is physically connected to Delft's city centre. This area is characterised by housing and facilities for students with an international focus. ď&#x201A;ˇ TU Science The central part of the campus has an education and research programme and is characterised by a combination of small-scale valorisation companies, space for sports, culture and housing for students. ď&#x201A;ˇ TU Business The southern part of the campus, which includes the Technopolis Delft Science Park, focuses specifically on knowledge valorisation and collaboration with businesses.

3.3 Pleasant working environment Naturally, the working environment for the university staff has also been taken into account in the development of the TU Delft Campus. The Campus Vision assumes an office environment that supports the work processes of both scientists and support and management staff in an optimal way. However, the need for types of space and office facilities varies highly from one staff member to another and depends on the activities they need to carry out. Various office and workspace concepts are available for this (such as Social Innovation or Smart@Work), which take these different needs into account. The starting points in developing and implementing such a workspace concept within TU Delft include labour productivity and work enjoyment, but not saving space.

3.4 Safe and healthy learning, working and living environment Besides the new facilities and provisions to be developed, much of TU Delft's property portfolio consists of buildings and grounds for which no immediate large-scale modifications are planned. Maintenance of this part of the portfolio is extremely important. All buildings and grounds must continue to comply with legislation and regulations in order to provide a safe and healthy learning, working and living environment for everyone. Furthermore, properly maintained buildings and grounds of course contribute to the appeal of the campus.

3.5 Easily accessible campus Accessibility is an important theme for the occupants, staff and visitors in the day-to-day use of the campus. TU Delft therefore wants a campus that is highly accessible for the local traffic to and from TU Delft. The campus already has an extensive cycling and pedestrian network, and the accessibility of TU Delft by public transport will improve significantly with the arrival of the high-quality public transport (hoogwaardig openbaar vervoer, HOV) tram line 19. Clustering parking facilities around the campus boundaries (as close as possible to the ring, the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

but within walking distance of the workspace) leads to busier streets and thus a more bustling area. Two of the central aims underlying the development of the area are improving the recognisability of the ring around the university district and making the parking zones easily accessible. New signs on the ring for cars and other traffic will make the buildings and parking facilities easier to find. In the current situation, TU Delft can meet its own needs for parking with the existing and planned parking capacity.

3.6 Sustainable campus Sustainability is an important theme in the development of the campus. The following priorities have been used in developing a sustainability policy for the campus, with reduction of the carbon footprint as the primary objective: 

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Sustainable building - The priorities in the area of sustainability go hand in hand with the application of the principle of Sustainable Building (Duurzaam Bouwen, DUBO). Increasing the sustainability of services such as energy, purchasing, mobility, etc., can only be effective if the precondition of sustainable building is satisfied. Buildings are considered ecologically sustainable if the environmental effects of the use of these buildings as well as the production of building materials and components, of building activities and spatial planning are all minimised. Sustainable building is characterised by a balance between social quality, environmental quality, economic quality and spatial quality. Sustainable purchasing - In connection with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), TU Delft has signed a covenant stipulating that purchasing is to be sustainable. This applies to products, services and works in respect of which the government and the business community have established specific sustainability criteria. Increasing sustainability of the block central heating network- By making buildings suitable for heating at a temperature of 80⁰C from the block central heating network, it becomes possible to convert this traditionally 'high temperature network' (130⁰C) to a hybrid network, which can also provide heating at a mid-temperature of 80⁰C. Furthermore, this creates the possibility of generating a significant proportion of heat via a geothermal source.

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Energy - In terms of energy, TU Delft has participated in the Long-Term Agreement for Institutes of Higher Education (Meerjarenafspraak WO/HBO), initiated by the national government, since 1998. This long-term agreement (MJA3) has an energy conservation target that we can achieve through technical, organisational and behavioural measures and which is safeguarded in an energy care system. Projects aimed at sustainable energy generation must be developed in the coming years. At the invitation of the municipality of Delft, nine Delft businesses and institutions, including TU Delft, signed the 'E-deal Delft energy-neutral 2050' ('E-deal Delft energieneutraal 2050') on 31 May 2013. By doing so, TU Delft declared that it endorses the objective of 'Delft Energy-neutral in 2050' and accepts its responsibility in reducing CO2 emissions by investing in energy conservation, sustainable production of energy and intelligent energy systems. HCS systems – Technopolis Delft Science Park is largely owned by TU Delft and is part of the campus. TU Delft is developing a knowledge-intensive business park here. This area is subject to an environmental target of reducing CO2 emissions. TU Delft is doing this by providing underground heat and cold storage (HCS).

3.7 Excellent and efficient campus TU Delft will achieve a more efficient use of space, optimal utilisation of floor area and cost reduction by not necessarily applying the starting points for the campus to each faculty individually and by giving them their 'own' place. The university is moving up a scale level: from faculty to campus level, as is already taking place in the 'rooms pool', sports centre, cultural centre and other facilities on campus. All rooms now go into the 'pool', study areas are for everyone and restaurant facilities have a variety of functions and are spread geographically throughout the campus.

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4 ACCOMMODATION TU Delft is developing the campus on the basis of the existing situation, which comprises buildings with a gross floor area of approximately 560,000 m2 and 162 hectares of grounds. Along with the layout and programming of the campus, the quality of the buildings and other facilities and services plays a major role in TU Delft's public profile. The vision on the campus conveys the demand for accommodation on the part of students, scientists, support and management staff and collaborative partners. A number of mismatches stand out when examining this vision based on our current accommodation.

4.1 Educational space There are a large number of educational areas on campus, including innovative locations such as the Library Learning Centre and the Wim Crouwelzaal in IDE. There are over 26,600 seats and workspaces for studying. This includes the unique study facilities at EEMCS and CEG. However, inventories show that the functional and technical qualities of the teaching rooms do not yet fully meet the requirements of the users. This concerns aspects such as audio, climate, lighting, furniture and building and architecture. This backlog in quality is partly responsible for the less than optimal timetabling. It is important to clear this backlog and to make improvements in dialogue with the users, as well as to invest in new educational areas which can support newer educational concepts or those yet to be developed. Students have expressed a need for more areas for self-study in various forms (individually and in groups), equipped with sufficient facilities. TU Delft currently has over 8000 places on campus that can be used as study areas. The challenge lies in making better use of these areas by installing good facilities such as wireless internet, and making these areas easier to find for students.

4.2 Research space TU Delft has unique state-of-the-art research facilities including a nuclear research reactor (RID), the Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory (nanotechnology), several wind tunnels, a high-voltage lab and a fluid mechanics lab. The total research space consists of over 500 labs and 120 other research areas, each with different requirements in terms of facilities and safety, depending on the type of research carried out. Due in part to the ongoing launching of new research, there is a continuous need for changes to the laboratory environment. Problems result not from the lack of laboratory space, but are related to the type and quality of the space. For example, there is currently a shortage of chemistry labs. In order to be able to meet the demand for laboratories, more (and more flexible) laboratories must be created.

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4.3 Office space The office environment in the property portfolio is characterised by a fairly traditional concept of individual offices. From a quality point of view, much of the portfolio therefore no longer meets the users' requirements and wishes. In the current property portfolio, due to the size of the buildings TU Delft has a surplus of office space and ancillary spaces such as storage areas. More and more filing is done digitally as a result of which there is a declining demand for workspaces. Furthermore, because TU Delft is not using these spaces as efficiently as it could, 30% of it can be considered 'hidden excess space.' This means that the space used is actually superfluous and could be used for other purposes or disposed of.

4.4 Public space In terms of surface area, the campus grounds of TU Delft form one of the biggest campuses in the world. However, the public space on the campus grounds consists largely of roads, pavements and car parks, rather than space for interaction and recreation. The buildings are isolated objects in the landscape, without any visible connection. However, the amount of public space offers a wealth of opportunities for the creation of housing, sports and activity in a large, park-like landscape. Much of the public space inside the buildings consists of traffic areas (lobbies and/or hallways) and large canteens. These areas do not facilitate the desired interactions between users. Transforming these areas and creating better links between the building and the grounds can contribute to a lively campus.

4.5 Buildings The campus consists of many buildings that have a cultural-historical value but are technically outdated. TU Delft's accomodation is an operating asset that must provide excellent technical and functional support for the primary processes of education and research. Technically and functionally outdated property does not 'perform' sufficiently in that respect, constitutes a business continuity risk and costs a lot to operate each year. Because the costs of property compete with the budgets for the primary tasks of TU Delft, it is important to handle property efficiently. This can be done by using the available floor area more efficiently, building and renovating more sustainably and generally using spaces in a more multifunctional manner. TU Delft wants to improve the quality of the existing buildings by tackling the state of repair and clearing the maintenance backlog for some buildings and improving maintenance standards to meet the current comfort and climate criteria.

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4.6 Coordination of supply and demand As shown above, the current accommodation does not fully comply with the campus vision as envisioned by TU Delft In order to allow the accommodation to better meet the needs of the users, a number of modifications must be made to the property portfolio. We will outline the modifications TU Delft wants to make and how it expects to achieve them in the property strategy and describe them in greater detail in the final accommodation plans, in close consultation with the users. A property strategy has been outlined for the next ten years and is described in the next section. Detailing of the strategy and plans will take place within the general framework described within this general strategy.

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5 PROPERTY STRATEGY Tackling all the property in an area covering 154 hectares is a long-term undertaking. The development of the current supply into higher-quality buildings, functions and facilities will take decades and will never be finished. How do you tackle this and where should you start? TU Delft aims to be a top university of technology with excellent facilities for students and scientists. In its Property Strategy (the framework for the investment programme for the next ten years), TU Delft uses this starting point as a framework for considering the investments in accommodation.

5.1 Investing in facilities for the primary processes By putting students and researchers first, the priority for the development of the campus is to offer a full and high-quality spectrum of disciplines, training programmes and unique facilities in the engineering sciences. With this aim, the university is primarily investing in:  Educational facilities – Investment in facilities for education so that all teaching rooms satisfy the current and future requirements and wishes, as well as the creation of sufficient study areas for individual and group selfstudy.  Research facilities – To overcome the shortage of high-quality laboratories, TU Delft is investing in facilities for research.  Facilities for Valorisation – Because the importance of cooperation with other educational and research institutes and the business community is increasing, TU Delft is investing in facilities for Valorisation. TU Delft wants to stimulate entrepreneurship on campus and the accessibility of research facilities. By investing in valorisation, we want to create a more attractive climate for establishing spin-offs, R&D companies and collaborative partners. While Technopolis Delft Science Park serves as the primary location for these target groups, any vacant space in the property portfolio is eligible to be rented out to third parties.

5.2 Essential support facilities Good support facilities are essential to ensure that the facilities described above can function properly. Therefore, in addition to the primary processes, the university is investing in the following facilities:  Accessibility – Accessibility encompasses the improvement of accessibility and findability of the campus as a whole and the offices within it.  Living campus - Investing in public areas and facilities (hotspots) to continue to encourage interactions between students, researchers and businesses and to provide them with an attractive and inspiring environment in which they can excel in education, research and valorisation.  Working environment for support staff – TU Delft sees office space as an operating asset that supports education and research. Availability and reliability are paramount for this space. While TU Delft is not investing in the addition of state-of-the-art office space, it wants to continue the quality of the vision for the campus as of 15 July 2013

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the current environment and upgrade it to the current office concepts where the opportunity arises. It also wants to reduce the surplus office space by using it for other functions. Maintenance and reducing the footprint Maintenance and management of buildings and public areas is safeguarded in the operations of TU Delft. This is done according to the guidelines of the prevailing legislation and regulations. The university is also committed to reducing its m2 footprint and its operating expenses by removing all buildings that have fallen or will fall into disuse from its portfolio as soon as possible. Sustainability â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TU Delft is transforming its heat and cold distribution network and adapting the buildings to reduce the CO2 footprint and decrease operating expenses.

The abovementioned core property strategy and its derivatives are shown in the diagram below.

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5.3 Preconditions for investments Each theme is characterised by a specific collection of accommodation projects. Together these projects will contribute to the realisation of the campus as envisioned by TU Delft (see images in the Campus Vision - the Campus Atlas) and have been tested according to a number of preconditions in terms of operations, namely:  It must be possible to finance all of the projects combined within the total budget in the coming years, and it must also be feasible in view of solvency and liquidity. Aiming for more or less even distribution of the investments is an instrument in this respect.  Implementation of all of the projects combined must be feasible. Undertaking too many projects at the same time could lead to problems for the availability of facilities (temporary solutions/room to shift), accessibility of the buildings and the workload of project management. That is why good overall planning is important: 'we will stay open for business during the renovation work'.  The buildings portfolio must be geared to the needs of TU Delft in both quantitive and qualitative terms. Too much space (floor area) leads to extra and unnecessary operating expenses. The objective is less (and better) property: removing buildings from the property portfolio (through demolition or sale) can play a role here.  TU Delft has ongoing agreements with regard to sustainability. This means that there must be scope for sustainable forms of energy generation and limitation of energy consumption.

5.4 Detailing of sub-areas The Property Strategy must be implemented within these preconditions. TU Delft has chosen to tackle the campus in sub-areas, thus ensuring that the campus development remains clear-cut, manageable and feasible. Tackling the Property Strategy in sub-areas makes it possible to work out the specific details in close consultation with the campus occupants (primarily deans of the faculties and directors of the University Corporate Office) and other stakeholders (such as the municipal authorities, students, businesses and knowledge institutions) in that area and to manage the campus development in the next ten years. Furthermore, decision-making can be prepared in a more comprehensive manner and in consultation with the Works Council. This way a new decision-making process does not have to be organised for each building and/or project. This will provide the framework for separate investment decisions. There will be a 'main project' (a defining investment) for each subarea, which is used to tackle related projects simultaneously and to address the layout of the public space in that sub-area in accordance with the starting points of the Campus Vision. The campus will gradually develop into the Living Campus that suits TU Delft's ambition to be a top university with top facilities.

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5.5 Campus-wide programmes In addition to the projects referred to above, the Property Strategy contains a number of campus-wide programmes, for which the detailing by sub-area is not sufficient. This primarily concerns the programmes for accessibility (the campus ring road, wayfinding, links to central parking facilities and public transport), reducing the footprint (removing buildings: selling or demolishing), sustainability (smart grid, mid-temperature heating and generation from a geothermal source) and facilities (restaurant facilities). Although these will be incorporated into the approach by sub-area as much as possible (for example: construction of the car parks, modification of the buildings for mid-temperature heating and the demolition of a number of buildings), a number of investments will have to be made for the campus as a whole (such as wayfinding, the construction of tram line 19 and central modifications for heat circulation).

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5.6 Dynamic property strategy There is an ongoing turnover in the projects that form part of the property strategy. Old projects are completed and new initiatives are added on the basis of the most recent insights. Within the strategy, three windows with planned modification types can be identified. These are: ď&#x201A;ˇ

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Short term - The basis of the property strategy is determined by projects which TU Delft carries out in the short term (between one and three years). The starting points for these projects have been finalised and the required decision making has taken place with regard to the implementation. The projects are part of TU Delft's annual budget. Medium term â&#x20AC;&#x201C; There are projects that are implemented in the medium term (three to six years). While decisions have been made on the initiatives of these projects, these decisions are not yet final. The scope of these planned projects can change under the influence of new insights such as

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changes in research and education, but also as a result of the completion of other projects. Long term - The property strategy is flexible in the long term in order to be able to respond to new developments. Intended modifications are characterised by initiatives. TU Delft uses these initiatives to consider the future demand for accommodation and paints a picture of the future campus in approximately ten years.

The property strategy is in a six-month cycle in which TU Delft evaluates, reconsiders and updates. The windows described above change with the strategy, always providing a new impression of the planned development of the campus for the next ten years.

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