The COST SUB-URBAN Toolbox: products and good practices that connect subsurface specialists with urban planners and decision makers

Rotterdam

Rotterdam Abu Dhabi

The COST SUB-URBAN Toolbox: products and good practices that connect subsurface specialists with urban planners and decision makers

Ignace van Campenhout Trondheim february 6^th 2017

Diarmad Campbell (UK), Johannes de Beer (NO), Guri Venvik Ganerød (NO), Ingelöv Eriksson, Jan Jelenek (Pl), Mario Bacic (HR), Luisa Goncalves, Ruben Camilo Lois Gonzales, Miguel Pazos (E), Gillian Dick, Alex Donald (UK), Constantin Radu Gogu (RO), Helen Bonsor (UK), Mitja Janza (SI) Susie Mielby (DK), Fransje Hooimeijer, Michiel van der Meulen , Jeroen Schokker, Ignace van Campenhout (NL), David Lawrence (UK), Rob van der Krogt (NL), Grzegorz Ryzinski (PL), Renate Taugs (DE)…..

• Many big cities owe their success to their physical geography and/or geology

Rotterdam

Rotterdam Abu Dhabi

• Subsurface used for many functions

• Making use of subsurface can enhance the quality of our

lives

• Big cities are growing very fast: increasing use of our subsurface

• But its potential is not unlimited > overlapping spaceclaims

Transport Energy Storage

Environment

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• to prevent conflicting use of the subsurface,

• to avoid costs and delays

• balance interests of all involved

• to benefit from the opportunities the subsurface offers

• to safeguard our subsurface ecosystems

requires integral knowledge of the subsurface and adapt a “holistic approach” to our living environment

• At the same time the physical geography and/or geology can also threaten the cities :

Sea invasions, overflowing rivers, droughts, earth quakes, volcanic eruptions

• Climate change: sea level rise, more intense rainfall,

increased water flow through rivers

MAKING OUR CITIES RESILIENT

• Prepare for disasters, limit their impact

• Make them ready for recovery and further growth

requires integral knowledge of the subsurface and adapt a

“holistic approach” to our living environment

SUSTAINABLE

RESILIENT

The subsurface provides the basis for development of resilient, sustainable cities

1. Have “integral” knowledge of the subsurface,

2. “holistic approach” as “a system”, above and undergound is one system

3. Understanding is not enough: using this knowledge as early as possible in the urban planning and decision making process

But the ground beneath our cities is often poorly recognised…..

Published in 2007

Sustainable use of space and energy

are pillars of Rotterdam’s spatial development strategy

Subsurface…not mentioned once

Why?

Fragmented knowledge of subsurface

• Different sectors: geohydrology, archaeology, geotechnical etc.

• Various subsurface disciplines not working together, “no integrated model”

• Subsurface is presented in a fragmented, incomprehensible way to urban planners

• Subsurface specialists not pro-actively involved in urban planning

Underground specialists and urban planners speak a different language

• Different departments

• Urban planners not aware of limitations and opportunities of the subsurface,

• For most urban planners the subsurface equals “costs and delays”

• Result: “engineering follows planning” instead of “engineering hand in hand with planning”

Decision makers & Politicians

• Subsurface is a “black box”, “out of sight out of mind”

• Responsibilities for the subsurface layers are divided between various authorities.

COST SUB-URBAN

European Network to improve understanding and use of the ground beneath our cities

4 years

Belfast Glasgow

Oslo Odense

Nantes

Lisbon

Helsinki Malmö Tallinn

Warsaw Prague

A Coruña Novi Sad

Istanbul Volos

Nafplio Barcelona

Ljubljana Basel

Bucharest Zagreb

Utrecht Gent Rotterdam Amsterdam Hamburg Dublin

Cardiff

Bergen

St. Petersburg

Valletta

4 years

Partners across

31 European

Countries and

Beyond

NGU

GSNI

IPP

GSN/

BGS TNO

GEUS

GLH/

BSU

Network of experts who develop urban subsurface knowledge …

…and those who can benefit most from it

Belfast

Rotterdam

Hamburg

Odense Oslo

Glasgow

Lisboa

CITY NEEDS

1. Sharing geoscience knowledge across the disciplines within the geoscience community,

good practices, gaps, common models

COST SUB-URBAN aims:

BRIDGING THE GAP

2. Sharing and re-using the geoscience knowledge with planners

Starting to transform relationships between above ground and belowground communities, community of practice, sharing a joint vision

3. Inform and Empower policy and decision makers

safeguarding subsurface ecosystem services, managing georisks, making a difference to our big cities…in Europe and beyond

City reports

Working Group report on topics

STSM reports

(Short term visits, exchange of skills and methodologies on above topics)

Deliveries 2013- 2017

Best

Effort Gaps

Good Practice

city setting, planning issues with

underground, economic aspects, quality of life, governance, state of infrastructure, the state of urban planning, legal framework

Subsurface urban planning, Data mngnt., 3D modelling, groundwater, geothermal,

geotechnical, geochemistry, cultural heritage

Publications

Workshops

Contributions to conferences, events, final conference

Deliveries 2013- 2017

Deliveries 2013- 2017

Networking

Deliveries 2013- 2017

YOUNG professionals have the future

Networking the NEXT generation Significant Progress towards:

1. Results can be found on website with all reports, events, publications:

“how we produced the information”

Hyperlink to Website

2. Results can be found in a Toolbox:

“how users will look for the information”

• webbased for presenting our knowledge in a user friendly format for our groups of users:

• “a set of examples of products and good practices” that can serve as inspiration for your city, that helps you with your process in moving upwards:

• Toolbox that shows “what” “how” and ”when”

• Videos, viewing facilities without need for sophisticated software

• “Join us page”, networking platform

• Is a training tool

• To be ready for use and to be presented during our final Conference in Bucharest march 2017

Toolbox: how users will look for the information

– Entrance via Topics

– Geographical entrance

Our audience ^:

• 3D modeller Engineering company in Kiev

• Geohydrologist Geological Survey in Bangladesh

• Urban Planner from the City of Singapore

• Professor on urban planning University of Bogota

• City Economist Prague

• Resilient City Officer in Karachi

• Member of City Council in Rome

• …..

• ...

Giving the users a feel for what can be achieved in their own organisation

Helping them to address issues with a fraction of the costs

Navigating through the Toolbox

From toolbox to “Urban Geology” platform, community

Networking

Incl “YOUNG” networks

Workshops

COST SUB-URBAN Follow up?

Contributions to conferences, events

Life beyond Bucharest…...challenge

Thank you for your

attention

Hyperlink to Toolbox

Hyperlink to Toolbox