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SPADE Case Study in Kisumu, Kenya

05/06/2019

Spatial Planning for Agro-business and policy Development, shortened to SPADE, is a programme of Maseno University in Kisumu, Kenya supported by a consortium of VU Amsterdam, DASUDA, RVO and Moi University as part of a Nuffic Niche project. Remco Rolvink of VE-R contributes to the DASUDA partnership with sessions on spatial planning methods. From 13…

Kajjansi junction spatial development framework

Kajjansi Junction Spatial Development Framework

08/03/2019

VE-R as partner of DASUDA was present at the Kajjansi Town Council meeting where the Vision of Growth was presented. This last Tuesday 26th of February the Kajjansi Town Council, part of Wakiso District in Greater Kampala, Uganda, met in a special session regarding the Kajjansi Junction Spatial Development Framework (SDF), presented by DASUDA under…

Mangroves at Ilubirin

Ilubirin: mangroves in Lagos

13/02/2019

Lagos in Nigeria is currently the fastest growing city on earth. Around the lagoon, a city of over 25 million people is expanding rapidly and is estimated to reach over 80 million inhabitants at the end of this century, becoming the world’s biggest city. Visiting today’s Lagos is fascinating and worrying at the same time.…

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Strategic study for HVC

10/02/2019

VE-R is making a strategic study for the waste burning and energy providing industrial complex of HVC in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. For different parts of the industrial complex, we made an inventorisation and analysis, and provided a set of images that show the future situation HVC is heading towards. Now we start with a design…

Research on ecological development and sedimentation growth in the Waddenzee

A new office

01/01/2019

Since the 1st of Januari 2019, Remco Rolvink and Berrie van Elderen are working together in a new office called VE-R. The past years Remco mostly worked on integral projects in Africa, under the flag of DASUDA, which he was co-founder of. Most recent example of the work is the design for the river trajectory and floodplain…