Living Innovation Lab - Green Infrastructure
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| Introduction | Contact info: https://people.utwente.nl/k.vink?tab=contact What is the LILa? The Living Innovation Lab (LILa) is an initiative of the faculty of Engineering Technology (ET) and Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at University Twente, the Netherlands. Its goals: - provide a semi-controlled setting for observation, monitoring, and experimentation - support training and education for vocational schools, university students, and practitioners - connect with local communities and industrial partners Green Infrastructure is just one among over a dozen of research projects taking place. In the initial stage, 3 different types of green roofs are in development, along with three different types of green walls. The green roofs include extensive, intensive, and blue-green roofs. The green walls consist of free climbing soil bound plants, scaffolding climbing plants, and wall forming modular vegetation. Both green roofs and walls are compared to a section of building without green infrastructure. A later stage includes the transformation of parking places to have permeable pavement and underground water storage adjacent to the LILa site. |