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A fire severely damaged an apartment in a high-rise building on Bachsingel in Delft’s Buitenhof neighborhood on Saturday evening, rendering the home temporarily uninhabitable, according to the Haaglanden Safety Region. The fire broke out shortly after 7:30 p.m., with flames visibly shooting out of the apartment, officials said. Two individuals were evaluated on-site by ambulance personnel after inhaling smoke and …

Delft apartment building to be constructed from wood pallets, reclaimed materials

Construction recently started on a very special residential tower in Delft. The building will be constructed with wooden pallets and reclaimed materials as much as possible. Where reclaimed materials are impossible, the developers - The Urban Woods - will use wood from a sustainable forest in Austria, where a tree is immediately planted for every one cut down, co-founder Tim …

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Last year, Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge pushed 200 million euros into building over 2,000 prefabricated, flexible homes. He aimed to quickly create homes that municipalities could place as soon as they had a location available to start swiftly filling gaps in the housing shortage. When the first 100 flexible homes were placed in Delft in May, it was already …

An explosion on the fourth floor of an apartment building in Delft left several people hurt early Saturday morning. The explosion happened at about 3:15 a.m. on Poptahof Zuid in the Zuid-Holland city’s Voorhof neighborhood. A spokesperson for the police told ANP that witnesses saw two men run off and jump into a car shortly after the explosion. A portion …

TU Delft opens sustainable, energy producing building

TU Delft opened its sustainable Echo building to students and lecturers on Monday. The building is made largely out of sustainable and recycled materials and generates more electricity than it uses, the technical university said. With the help of solar panels, all energy for the power consumption of laptops, lighting, and catering is generated, and there is still left at …