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In response to the need for sustainable construction practices, an international group of researchers has secured a HORIZON Europe grant. They will develop a groundbreaking digitalized, autonomous, and intelligent identification system, including a robot. This innovative technology aims to revolutionize the construction industry by efficiently identifying and extracting reusable materials, products and building components in end-of-life buildings.

Do you want to experience if entrepreneurship is something for you, or are you curious about how starting a business works?

Did your grandmother also do the laundry when a sunny day was forecast? Now that so many households have solar panels and the electricity network is experiencing problems due to overload at peak times, it would also be better if households with solar panels run appliances such as the washing machine on sunny days.

Paul Althuis has received a royal decoration. The former director of the Innovation & Impact Centre has been appointed as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. The order was awarded to Althuis by Mayor Marja van Bijsterveldt on Friday in the Delft city hall during the traditional order ceremony (or ‘Lintjesregen’) prior to King's Day.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein has started as visiting professor in High Performance Computing at our faculty. Gerhard is a Professor for High Performance Computing (HPC) at the Department for Computer Science of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany. He will travel regularly to Delft, to share his knowledge on High Performance Computing with the HPC team at our faculty.

As designers, how do we explain what we do? There's a wide range of design labels to choose from. And it makes sense. Labels are a way for us as designers to indicate what we do, how we do it and what we value. What if we had a framework which allows us to explain every aspect of our design practice? IDE researchers Pieter Jan Stappers, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser and Annemiek van Boeijen developed such a framework.