The energy transition lies at the heart of the transformation to a climate-neutral, resilient, and affordable built environment by 2035. The 4TU+ institutions have the shared responsibility of contributing to the shaping of past energy systems and leveraging our collective strengths to accelerate the transition toward a just, circular, and data-driven energy future.
Domain Acceleration Team Energy Transition
With this vision in mind, the DAT Energy Transition in the built environment community is committed to mission-oriented, transdisciplinary, and action-based research, in which academic insight is directly connected to societal experimentation.
To convert the energy transition into transformation, DAT-ET moves beyond fragmented innovation towards systemic transformation, in close cooperation with public and private parties.
The DAT Energy Transition community is a collaboration between researchers from the TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, Twente University of Technology, Wageningen University and Research, and The Hague University of Applied Science.
Together, the transdiciplinary team of researchers has joined forces in research including a NWO-KIC funding proposal (more information will be shared later) and prerations for the Energy Transitions series books, enriching the current Energy Transition literature.
Acceleration trough events:
Besides of joining forces in research, the DAT Energy Transition community aims to truely accelerate the Energy Transition in the Built environment trough (networking) events.
Curious what DAT-ET has to offer? Join us at one of the upcoming events:
1. SBE27 Delft | People, Planet and the Built Environment: Governing District-Scale Transitions in an Uncertain World
The transition towards a sustainable, resilient and decarbonised built environment requires more than technological innovation. It calls for new ways of connecting people, infrastructure, markets, ecosystems and institutions, and for addressing the complex challenges of governance, affordability, climate change, resource constraints and social justice.
SBE27 Delft brings the international sustainable built-environment community together to exchange research, practical experience and innovative approaches to systemic transformation.
The conference places the district at the centre of this conversation: a critical scale where buildings, infrastructures, communities and institutions interact. At the same time, we welcome contributions across buildings, neighbourhoods, cities and regions, reflecting diverse international contexts.
Six scientific tracks
- Buildings, Infrastructure and Environmental Systems
- People, Behaviour, Communities and Justice
- Governance, Institutions, Policy and Law
- Economics, Finance and Value Models
- Digitalisation, Data and AI for Transition
- Integrated, Adaptive and Resilient Transitions
Themes range from decarbonisation, energy systems and circular construction to climate adaptation, behavioural change, sufficiency, affordable housing, financing, digitalisation and just transitions.
We particularly welcome international and comparative research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and contributions that bridge science, policy and practice.
SBE27 Delft will contribute to the international SBE conference series through peer-reviewed open-access proceedings, the SBE27 Delft Declaration and nominated best papers for WSBE28.
Join us in Delft to exchange knowledge, challenge assumptions and help shape the next generation of sustainable built-environment transitions.
More information: https://sbe27delft.4tu.nl/
2. 4TU.BE DAT Energy Transition Tour
We are pleased to invite you the to the next Meetup event at Wageningen University & Research, February 1st 2027!
The complete programme for this meetup will follow soon.
The DAT Energy Transition Tour is a collaborative initiative aimed at strengthening the community and fostering ecosystem development across the 4TU+ institutions. Through these campus engagements, DAT Energy Transition seeks to catalyze interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerate progress in the energy transition.
After three successful meetup at the TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and Twente University of Technology, the fourth stop of the DAT Energy Transition Tour will be Wageningen University in February 2027. More information on this Meetup will follow.
The DAT Energy Transition Tour aims to exchange insights, align research directions, and further accelerate the energy transition by joined 4TU DAT ET projects.
3. Built Environment Energy Transition (BEET) summerschool
The DAT Energy Transition community is currently in the preparition phase of the BEET summerschool, in collaboration with Green Business Challenge.
DAT Energy Transition Team
Would you like to contribute to the DAT Energy Transition research or upcoming events? Reach out to Queena Qian and Roderick Vaasen:
