Facilities

The Green Village offers the space to realise, research and demonstrate your innovation in an early stage. The terrain is exempt of standard rules and regulations, the Dutch Building Decree is switched off, and the buildings and pipe- and cable network are designed and placed in such a way to offer flexibility and easy application for new innovations.

Testbeds

A unique platform to help scale up innovations to large scale application

Within the themes Sustainable building & renovation, Future energy system and Climate adaptive city, you can test your innovations with our existing state-of-the-art infrastructure. Among other things, The Green Village offers office spaces, inhabited terraced houses, a DC-, hydrogen- and heat grid. Your innovation can be easily and cost efficiently connected, avoiding the struggle and costs of investment in your own infrastructure.

Being exempt of standard rules and regulations, this field lab allows concepts to be tested like nowhere else. The appointed project manager of The Green Village will assist you with all your questions and fitting your innovation into our system. End users and residents will keep you on your toes and will make sure to prepare you for implentation and large scale application after a test period at The Green Village.

The terrain

The terrain of The Green Village is approximately 1,4 hectares (150m * 95m) and situated in the centre of TU Delft Campus, Van den Broekweg 4 in Delft. The grounds, which is enclosed with a fence, is locked and secured outside office hours. It has a lot plan with various green zones and a street plan with flexible stelcon-plates, making it relatively simple to fit in your infrastructural innovation (road, water, energy, ground, soil). The terrain is also partially surrounded by water, which can also be used for your innovation.

The Green Village offers

A safe test environment exempt of standard rules and regulations.
A plug & play infrastructure with buildings, squares, streets and future energy systems.
Inhabited houses.
A network of public and private partners willing to contribute.
Access to the innovation ecosystem of the TU Delft. Science is literally around the corner.
A Learning Community, which we form with educational institutions, entrepreneurs, government bodies and civilians, where knowledge and education is shared.
Thousands of visitors each year to witness the demonstrated innovations.