Prof.dr.ir. J.D.M. van Hal
Real Estate & Housing (REH) | Housing
Chair in Sustainable Housing Transformation
Since 1 November 2007 Anke van Hal (1965) has been Professional Practice Professor in Sustainable Housing 
Transformation within the Housing research group of the Architecture faculty. Her chair focuses on increasing the sustainability of existing housing stocks and neighbourhoods to ensure they meet ambitious environmental targets and reflect residents' needs. This involves the triple P approach, which not only takes account of the aspects of planet and people, but also the issue of profit. Is sustainability introduced in a way that is also economically attractive? The chair will concentrate on deploying process innovation in the practical implementation of sustainable housing transformation.
Van Hal represents the Real Estate & Housing (RE&H) department on the issue of sustainability and coordinates sustainability research with colleagues in other departments across the whole faculty. She provides courses for the bachelor's and master's degree programmes and supervises final-year students and PhD candidates. In September 2008 she will be working with fellow professor Dick van Gameren on a joint graduation project (Architecture and RE&H) in sustainable house building. The chair's research programme has been amalgamated with research on sustainability and health carried out by the OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies. This joint research programme focuses on external parties and is entitled Housing Quality 2020.
Van Hal is already well known within the faculty. It was here that she graduated and was awarded her PhD in 2000 for her thesis 'The diffusion of environmental innovations in housing' and she has also worked as a part-time researcher and visiting lecturer. She has been running her own consultancy for some time and for ten years was editor-in chief of the journal Puur Bouwen (Pure Building, formerly known as Sustainable Building). In addition to her work at TU Delft, Van Hal also holds a part-time professorship in 'Sustainable Building' at the Nyenrode Business University's Center for Sustainability.
Secondary employment:
- 2 days per week linked to Center for Sustainability of business university Nyenrode at the Sustainable Building & Development department
- Consultancy Anke van Hal
