Campus Energy Challenge

Intelligent street lighting and using waste heat to produce electricity. These were the ideas chosen by a jury of scientists and real estate and facility management professionals as the winners of the Campus Energy Challenge, a contest for (PhD) students at TU Delft to come up with ideas for a sustainable campus. The contest was part of plans of the university to save energy, implement renewable energy and use the campus as a living lab for testing energy technology developed inhouse. A wind tubine integrated in a building won the audience prize.

Een impression of the finale and the unveiling of the Energy Plant

Listen to a podcast interview with keynote speaker Ad van Wijk

Listen to a podcast interview with chairman of the jury Gijs van Kuik

Intelligent street lighting

Watch the elevator pitch by Chintan Shah. Chintan Shah, Haibo Zhou and Vijay Rajaraman designed and built a system for intelligent street lighting. They won the first prize in the catogory 'feasible and effective' for solutions that can easily be implemented in the short term. 

Listen to a podcast interview with Chintan Shah

Download Shah's presentation 

Magnetocaloric energy conversion

Watch the elevator pitch by Mighael Vroom. His idea for implementing magnetocaloric energy conversion won the first prize in the category 'totally out of the box' for solutions that need further research before implementation. 

Listen to a podcast interview with Mighael Vroom

Download Vroom's presentation   

Wind mill integrated into building 

Watch the elevator pitch by Philip Hoogreef. Lie Ping Huang, Philip Hoogreef, Elio Shak-Shie, Sophie Thornander and Nick van der Velde designed a wind turbine integrated into a building. They won the audience prize. 

Listen to a podcast interview with Philip Hoogreef

Download Hoogreef's presentation

Read the article about all five finalists in university newspaper Delta (Dutch)

Energy Plant

On 17 March former environment minister Jacqueline Cramer unveiled the Energy Plant, a more than five metres tall wind powered fountain at the university campus. The Energy Plant was designed and built by a team of students. 

(the Energy Plant in the Mekelpark. TU Delft)