Archive for October 2024
UDC at work with KIT and ICL team on litter transport in urban drainage
Over the next few weeks, our partners at Universidade da Coruña and CITEEC will finalise their fourth Transnational Access — a research proposal from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in collaboration with Imperial College London, on Inception of Transport of Litter Under Pluvial Conditions. Urban environments are hotspots for plastic litter, yet we still…
Read MoreLaunch of the Transnational Access Project “Standard for stormwater management in Sweden”
IKT, RISE and Luleå University of Technology launch cooperation within Co-UDlabs Water pollution caused by stormwater discharges from separated sewer systems is currently subject of intense debate, particularly concerning pollutants that are washed off from paved surfaces via stormwater. Decentralized stormwater treatment facilities can mitigate this challenge, as they are designed to retain and treat…
Read MoreLaunch of the INDOOR-GRASP Transnational Access at INSA Lyon
On September 16-17, 2024, a user’s group participated in the installation of a green roof at INSA Lyon. During the first day, Co-UDlabs partners gave an initial presentation and demonstration of the models and software tools developed at INSA Lyon to simulate green roofs: URBIS (publicly available at https://deep.insa-lyon.fr/fr/content/urbis), and GEPETO (will be publicly available…
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