Except Integrated Sustainability
Except Integrated sustainability.
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Multi-disciplinary consulting, innovation and development organization working on advanced sustainability projects around the globe.

UltraCities

Service > Advanced Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods

The UltraCities program brings together all knowledge and experience for the development of brand new, highly sustainable, healthy, and resilient urban areas. It realizes urban areas that work across all social, economic, ecological and physical aspects of a city.  

UltraCities are ideal places to live, work, play, and relax.  With lush nature, new mobility systems, smart city technologies, and ideal habitats for life, in any climate.  They utilize our 20 years of experience in sustainable and resilient development, bring together pioneering partners from across the globe, and realize new exciting futures for their inhabitants.  

What is an UltraCity?

UltraCities are cities that embrace a new reality of living on this planet. They provide high quality living and working environments, while being self sufficient in their energy, water, food and waste management needs. They are resilient towards unexpected changes in environment, have biodiverse natural areas, adapt to climate change, and water challenges. They have self sufficient economies that are built on abundant resources, knowledge development and a rich cultural life. Their inhabitants enjoy   vibrant, healthy lives, strong communities, and diverse living experiences for the full scope of  life, from the very young to our senior  citizens. 

Approach

Developing a new city is an immensely complex task. To maximize value from efforts and investment, project management that steers towards an optimal outcome in planning, design, and construction is essential. This requires tight cooperation between disciplines, developing parties, government bodies, and those on the ground.  To do this, we apply systemic integrated project management,  design thinking, and performance based contracting.

Services

Within the development of UltraCities, we perform the following tasks:

  • Overall strategy, vision, and governance
  • Masterplanning
  • Urban Design
  • Building Design
  • Project Management 

Reference Projects

Boston Fort Point Masterplan

Sustainable urban redevelopment

This urban redevelopment project of the Fort Point district in Boston, MA proposes a unique strategy to reduce city-wide traffic congestion, increase livability and property values and contributes significantly to the resilience of the city as a whole.

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BKCity Slim Refurbishment

Sustainable Renovation of TUDelft's Architecture Faculty

BKCity is a magnificent listed monument of more than 30.000m2 functioning as the faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft. Except created a phased plan to make this historic educational building energy and carbon neutral within ten years.

The plan converts the building into a didactic tool that puts sustainability at the heart of education for generations of architects, introducing a unique in-building ecosystem that provides an inspiring environment, functional qualities and cost savings.

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San Francisco Transbay / Salesforce Park

World's largest ecological rooftop park

The San Francisco Transbay Center redevelopment project realizes the world’s largest rooftop park in the center of one of the world’s most exciting cities: Salesforce Park. The concept, developed by Except together with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, restructures an existing transport hub into a beacon of beauty, biodiversity, and health.  The project started in 2007 and the park opened in 2019.

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Contact

Except Integrated Sustainability

Tom Bosschaert
Director

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