Smart cities: How technology will change our buildings | Coen van Oostrom | TEDxBerlin

Since founding OVG Real Estate in 1997, Coen van Oostrom (1970), entrepreneur and a champion of sustainability and smart technology in real estate, built the company into the largest commercial property developer and investor in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. OVG is recognized for its sustainable development and innovations in the real estate sector by many international parties and received international prizes like the Corenet Sustainable Leadership Award and the H. Bruce Russel Global Innovator’s Award. OVG’s most recent development The Edge in Amsterdam is recently recognized as the ‘most sustainable office building in the world’ according to BREEAM.

Coen aspires for OVG to be game-changers in the real estate industry by challenging perceptions of what is possible in the built-environment.

[antonioromano]

I was the program manager of this installation from Philips Lighting. glad that had such an opportunity

[malinsvenssonvalhallaqueen]

Retrofitting on existing homes is very costly to homeowners. Calculated at 50k euro per home which incurs heavy monthly repayments through bills from providers or annual property tax. Many people will loose their houses and forces into stack and pack accommodation. What a sad future for our children.😢😓

[darteyobeng]

Great talk. I hope African cities do well to making their buildings sustainable.

[davidmichel]

Smart Cities are the way a snake oil salesman sells a panopticon

[doremon_Indian]

what is artist doing at middle of Presentation @ 3.46

[АнастасияАнтоненко-уй]

Can anyone share a link for a research about the fact the speaker mentioned at @9.53 (30-40% of desks in building are not being used)? Or at least some website where this fact is mentioned too...

[joelcrocker]

that great in all but two years ago my power bill was 40 bucks now it is 80 bucks for using 500, 000 on tear 1 on A privet power Company and I am disabled, and do not qualify for their benefits

[perriernathalie]

Very inspiring speach and great ambition. Great achievement with the edge. Any Digital twin technology used in this building?

[frankvicioso]

Even beyond this great talk the designs of future sensitive and people friendly cities exist. A glimpse of the today possible smartest city designs are described in the astonishing amazon ebook called OUR WARS

[SuzukiMx]

Does anyone know how to get hold of the team that worked on 'The Edge'? I'm writing an essay on the building now and really need to ask a question or two!

[frnco]

Does anyone have the picture shown in the presentation at 14:00 ?

[ishwaritank]

Amazing talk! So great I came across this! 🤗

[MrMeasurement]

Great story and impressive way of weaving the whole contents from start to the end.

[CraftyShawn]

it's not called a Ethernet cable I'm assuming you talking about the RJ45