The Green Village: perfect testing ground for innovations in the built environment

The Green Village: perfect testing ground for innovations in the built environment

Make sustainability pilots part of your business strategy: that is the call made by Willy Spanjer of The Green Village to construction companies, developers, and housing associations in the run-up to Provada 2025. 'A pilot project is still too often seen as a one-off. Construction project completed? Pilot project completed. That's not the way to move forward. Evaluate, share knowledge, and apply the improvements from a pilot project to the next project.'

A low-regulation “open-air laboratory” for the built environment: that is The Green Village in a nutshell. The Green Village—a field lab for sustainable innovation at Delft University of Technology—has been a place for testing at the neighborhood, street, and building levels for about ten years.

We form a link in the entire innovation process and try to bridge the gap between theory and practice. We facilitate the initial testing environment for all those sustainable innovations in the built environment.”
— Willy Spanjer, The Green Village

She continues: ‘The energy transition and making the built environment more sustainable require new solutions. Solutions that are not just waiting on the shelf, because they have to be developed. We can do that. Anyone with good ideas is welcome, from students and researchers to large and small companies.’

Read the entire article from Vastgoedmarkt about the role of The Green Village Willy Spanjer and PROVADA 2025 here