Climate-adaptive (new) construction projects in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

In more and more places and at more and more organisations, including in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (Amsterdam Metropolitan Area), consideration is being given to how we can adapt to climate change and sensibly organise our spatial (built) environment. Heat stress, drought, extreme rainfall, flood safety and biodiversity are increasingly in the news, and the urgency to do something about these developments is increasing.  

In recent years, the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area has taken significant steps in its ambitions to develop climate-adaptive construction as a standard. A number of important products and aids have been developed for this, such as the Basic Safety Level for climate-adaptive construction. Now the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is also looking for collaboration with all stakeholders in the construction chain and in the areas to realise its ambitions. Not non-binding collaboration but a result-oriented approach: concrete agreements that all parties actually get to work with. The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is now asking for support in this process in order to arrive at a letter of intent signed by all parties. And we can provide that support, in collaboration with Tauw!

In the next year, we want to organise a widely supported letter of intent between all partners – public, private and social – who (want to) play a role in climate-proof construction projects in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. Which agreements do we need to make to do this, how do we make good use of what is already there (both inside and outside the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area), how do we include the ‘DNA of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area’ in this, how do we realise customisation where necessary and ‘generic’ agreements where possible? And how do we ensure that all parties actually start complying with those agreements? 

Stay tuned for the follow-up to these questions!