On the 18th of May, Ilse Dijkstra-Nugteren of Deerns and Marthe Doornbosch of Heijmans provided us with an interesting lunch lecture.

Ilse, from Deerns, spoke about the building physics of the ASML-plaza, the canteen of ASML where 1,500 people can have lunch. This project consisted of two parts: a renovation of an existing part with no daylight, and a construction of a part with a 12 meter high ceiling with a lot of day lighting. She did the lighting design and the acoustics of the project.

Marthe from Heijmans talked about BeSense, a startup where existing buildings can be made ‘smart’. The idea is that every workplace and every room has a sensor, which can be used to show which parts have to be cleaned, where a free workplace is, if there are too little or too many workspaces and more ideas are coming.

We would like to thank the speakers for this lunch lecture!