



2018 International Housing Study Tour – The Netherlands
In June 2018, a small group of OHBA members traveled to the Netherlands for the annual OHBA International Housing Study Tour. We spent two days in Amsterdam visiting new communities being developed in the Eastern Docklands and the artificial islands of IJburg as well as visiting The Edge, which is the ¬greenest building in the world, according to British rating agency BREEAM. The tour continued to RijswijkBuiten by one of Europe’s largest builders, VolkerWessel, which is an energy neutral suburban development, just outside of The Hague. The tour concluded with a couple of nights in Rotterdam visiting innovative architectural firm MVRDV’s office and incredible mixed-use Markthal development (pictured) and a large-scale Net Zero Energy (NZE) retrofit project of a low-rise social housing site by Energiesprong utilizing prefabricated panelized building systems. Thank you to our Housing Tour partner EnerQuality, major tour sponsors Cricket Energy and Ozz Electric, as well as a site visit sponsor Sustainable Buildings Canada and lunch sponsor Building Knowledge Canada.