THE URBAN UNDERGROUND is a full-day program, which addresses how careful deployment of the subsurface can improve the value of life above ground.

Increasing urbanization throughout the world challenges the sustainable development and resilience of cities. Despite this, the importance of the ground beneath cities is under-recognized and often overlooked. The main goal of THE URBAN UNDERGROUND is to provide a long-needed contribution to greater interaction and networking, and so transform the relationship between experts who develop urban subsurface knowledge and those who can benefit most from it: urban planners, urban decision makers and the community.

The program consists of:
A symposium in which urban developers and underground specialists from various European cities discuss the urgent issues concerning the urban underground.
And an underground experience: 3D models and visualizations, serious game, demo sessions, profiles, cores.

PROGRAM:

09.00 Registration with coffee & tea

PLENARY SESSION 9.30 – 10.40 a.m.
09.30 Welcome and Introduction by the Chairman (Ard den Outer)
09.40 Opening by ir. Ron Voskuilen (Director City Development City of Rotterdam)
09.50 Need for efficiënt use of urban subsurface resources- Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Cramer (Professor of Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University, ambassasor of COB)

10.15 The world between Cables and Carboniferous - Dr. Michiel van der Meulen (TNO Geological Survey)

BREAK 10.40 - 11.00 a.m.

PARALLEL SESSIONS 11 - 12.30 a.m.
Session 1: Workshop Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with Helsinki (Natural History Museum),
Session 2: Presentations (Auditorium Kunsthal),
Session 3: 3D Demo’s (LAB Kunsthal),
Session 4: Serious Game Underground (Auditorium Upstairs)

LUNCH 12.30 - 1.45 p.m.

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1.45 - 3.15 p.m.
Session 1: Workshop Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with Oslo (Natural History Museum),
Session 2: Presentations (Auditorium Kunsthal),
Session 3: 3D Demo’s (LAB Kunsthal),
Session 4: Serious Game Underground (Auditorium Upstairs)

BREAK 3.15 - 3.40 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION 3.40 - 4.30
15.40 Feedback from parallel sessions
15.55 COST–SUB-URBAN: Improving the understanding and use of the ground beneath of our cities Dr. Diarmad Campbell (British Geological Survey)
16.20 Closing Remarks by ir. Johan Vermeer (Director Engineering Consultants City of Rotterdam)
16.30 Close by the Chairman & Drinks

Organized by COST-SUBURBAN; City of Rotterdam, Engineering MRO; TNO Geological Survey; COB; Strategis; RO2.
With the participation of: Ministry of I&M (STRONG), Ministry Economical affairs (EBN), City of Amsterdam and Geo-Impuls.

Language: English
Admission is free, please register via connecting_underground@rotterdam.nl