*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
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Urbanism . <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> 35<br />
PLEEC<br />
Plannnig for Energy Efficient Cities (2013-2016)<br />
ROBERTO ROCCO<br />
Fig. 14: City official in Stoke-on-Trent (UK) shows plans to improve energy efficiency in the city. Photo: R. <strong>Rocco</strong>.<br />
Energy efficiency is high on the<br />
European agenda. One of the<br />
goals of the European Union’s<br />
20-20-20 str<strong>at</strong>egy is to improve energy<br />
efficiency <strong>by</strong> 20% until 2020.<br />
However, holistic knowledge about<br />
energy efficiency potentials in<br />
cities is far from complete. Currently,<br />
a variety of individual str<strong>at</strong>egies<br />
and approaches <strong>by</strong> different<br />
stakeholders tackling separ<strong>at</strong>e key<br />
aspects hinders str<strong>at</strong>egic energy<br />
efficiency planning. For this reason,<br />
the project “<strong>Planning</strong> for Energy Efficient<br />
Cities” (PLEEC) funded <strong>by</strong> the<br />
EU Seventh Framework Programme<br />
uses an integr<strong>at</strong>ive approach to<br />
achieve the sustainable, energy efficient,<br />
smart city. 18 partners from<br />
13 European countries collabor<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
to make European cities energy<br />
smart. By coordin<strong>at</strong>ing str<strong>at</strong>egies<br />
and combining best practices,<br />
PLEEC helped develop a general<br />
model for energy efficiency and<br />
sustainable city planning.<br />
By connecting scientific excellence<br />
and innov<strong>at</strong>ive enterprises in the<br />
energy sector with ambitious and<br />
well-organized cities, the project<br />
will help to reduce energy use in<br />
Europe in the near future and is<br />
therefore an important tool contributing<br />
to the EU’s 20-20-20 targets.<br />
SPS took part in this project<br />
with case studies in several European<br />
cities. Text adapted from: http://<br />
www.pleecproject.eu
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