Built Environment

Get inspired by BUas learning community projects, expertise and insights into the Built Environment domain.

Built Environment
  • What is the impact of automated vehicles?

    What is the impact of automated vehicles?

    Nowadays, autonomous driving is a hot topic in most of our domains. In logistics, in facility management and in the built environment, the transition...

    • Expertise
  • Car Use: A Matter of Dependency or Choice?

    Car Use: A Matter of Dependency or Choice?

    The research analyses to what extent the higher levels of car use for commuting in the province are a matter of 'dependency' or 'choice'. Results show...

    • Expertise
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    The winner of the Stichting Rho graduation prize is known!

    Yesterday, 13 July 2023, the award ceremony of the Stichting Rho-afstudeerprijs 2023 (Stichting Rho graduation prize) took place. After intensive jury...

    • Student work
  • Fresh Brains: Bellinzona

    Fresh Brains: Bellinzona

    Switzerland served as the backdrop for a transformative week filled with inspiration, collaboration, and personal growth. Partnering with students...

    • Student work
  • Project CIVITAS MUSE Kicks-off in Brussels

    Project CIVITAS MUSE Kicks-off in Brussels

    CIVITAS MUSE is the new Coordination and Support Action of the CIVITAS Initiative. BUas is part of the consortium alongside seven other partner...

    • Expertise
  • You must surely be a bit crazy

    You must surely be a bit crazy

    Mark van Eijk takes the ‘Discover Your World’ of BUas quite literally. After 16 years of teaching, he will now ride to Japan on his motorbike.

    • Stories
  • From 'jungle gym' to logistics

    From 'jungle gym' to logistics

    ‘I didn’t see myself jump over the buck in a gym until I retire...’ I am talking to Leo Kemps, director of Logistics Community Brabant (LCB) for just...

    • Stories
  • All the way to Okotoks

    All the way to Calgary

    For the minor International Urban Redevelopment, Built Environment lecturers Paul van de Coevering and Ineke Spapé travelled to Calgary together with...

    • Student work
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    Innovative mobility solutions showcased in Brno

    Innovative start-ups from Czechia, Slovakia, Israel and Spain inspired representatives of Czech and Slovak municipalities and other urban mobility...

    • Expertise
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    Student Stijn wins CIVITAS Visual Story Competition

    Built Environment student Stijn is one of the winners of CIVITAS Visual Story Competition. In the competition, students were challenged to answer...

    • Student work
  • Freeing Our Future

    Freeing Our Future

    Why American children have become prisoners in their own homes and how a Dutch perspective can help.

    • Student work
  • Living in Cities LAB

    Living in Cities LAB

    The Living in Cities LAB is a first year practical LAB where the students work with a case study set in Bellville, Western cape, South Africa.

    • Student work
  • The interaction between land use and transportation

    The interaction between land use and transportation

    Professor Urban Intelligence, Paul van de Coevering, co-published an article with Kees Maat and Bert van Wee on the interaction between land use and...

    • Expertise
  • Smart and Healthy Cities: Tunnel vision

    Smart and Healthy Cities: Tunnel vision

    "How do cities transform twilight zones in their city into attractive places actually promoting active lifestyles instead of discouraging them?"

    • Expertise
  • Built Environment Industry Event 2023

    Built Environment Industry Event 2023

    On 27 January the first edition of the Built Environment Industry Event took place.

    • Student work
  • Changing the Last Mile deliverables for Eindhoven

    Changing the Last Mile deliverables for Eindhoven

    The first part of the minor Last Mile and the City: how to organise a sustainable last mile in an urban environment in 2030 ended with a presentation...

    • Expertise
    • Student work
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    I mainly tell them how not to do it! 

    ‘Retiring!? Who told you that!? Yes, in one year, nine months and two days...’ Oh dear, that almost sounds like Rien Smalheer, lecturer of Built...

  • Placement & Graduation overview

    Placement & Graduation overview

    Worldwide overview of placements and graduations of Built Environment and Logistics students.

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    Symposium International Urban Redevelopment

    Expert teams on car dependency, placemaking, social cohesion and urban design present their knowledge for retrofitting North American cities.

    • Expertise
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    Marine Spatial Planning Autumn School

    From the 31st of October until November the 4th 2022, 17 students from the second year of the international Built Environment course participated in a...

    • Student work