Green/Blue Infrastructure for Sustainable, Attractive Cities

Funding organisations: FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency

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Project partners: Lulea University of Technology, Delft University of Technology
Project managers: Robert SITZENFREI Michael MAIR, Jonatan ZISCHG
Project duration: 07/2013 - 01/2017



Brief description:

The three-year international research project "Green/Blue Infrastructure for Sustainable, Attractive Cities" was carried out as part of the JPI Urban Europe on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. The focus of this project was to analyse the entire urban water infrastructure and subsequently develop methods for creating a sustainable, safe and flexible infrastructure. The aim was to prevent flooding and droughts, promote the biodiversity of ecosystems and at the same time create attractive living space. The approach was to shift piped water, especially rainwater runoff, to the surface (green/blue infrastructure) in order to create a more robust, flexible and "beautiful" water infrastructure for the future of a city. Another aspect of the research was not only to plan a desired state of the infrastructure, but also to investigate how this can be achieved (change from centralised to decentralised drainage structures).

In addition to the University of Innsbruck, the Technical University of Lulea and the Technical University of Delft were also involved in this project. The project work was carried out on an international level with the help of an "Urban Living Lab" (Kiruna/Sweden), in which citizens, practitioners, decision-makers and researchers work together to develop innovative solutions. A similar approach was also pursued by the individual project partners at national level in the form of "city hubs" (Zwolle/Netherlands and Innsbruck/Austria).

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Bachelor theses:

  • "Concepts and possibilities for drainage systems in cold climatic conditions (Northern Sweden)" - Thomas Pramstaller

Master theses:

  • "Stochastic performance assessment and optimisation strategies of the water supply network transition of Kiruna during city relocation" - Jonatan ZISCHG

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