Friso Klapwijk
Former Global Director Urban Climate Resilience, Wavin, Netherlands
Last updated: April 25, 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Friso Klapwijk presented “Building with Water: Restoring the water cycle in the built environment” at the Holcim Foundation Sounding Board Rotterdam. Over the past ten years, he has developed a roofing system that helps to harvest rainwater and consider water as a valuable resource from the first drop of rain to the final runoff – with hydrological, thermal, and environmental benefits.
Building with water: Restoring the water cycle in the built environment
At the Sounding Board Rotterdam, Friso Klapwijk, Global Director Urban Climate Resilience at Wavin explains how designing our cities for water capture can be beneficial, and how the roofing system he has developed over the past ten years helps to harvest rainwater and consider water as a valuable resource from the first drop of rain to the final runoff – with hydrological, thermal, and environmental benefits.
After a career in civil engineering, he cofounded De Dakdokters in 2010. De Dakdokters is an Amsterdam based design and build firm on roof gardens. De Dakdokters impacted the world of green roofs with a strong design philosophy and a unique approach. Their portfolio contains price winning roof gardens. Currently Friso is non-executive board member of De Dakdokters.
In 2016 Friso founded MetroPolder. This venture brought the PolderRoof concept to the market. The PolderRoof is a smart activated blue roof solution. Active controlled roofs were established in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, and the USA. In 2022 the company was acquired by Wavin, an Orbia business.
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