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involved in the conception, planning, and implementation of the lighthouse district to ensure
active involvement and public support by the residents of the community.
4.2 RDI: Strengthen the research sector for transitioning buildings and districts
The construction of TIR districts requires a wide range of scientific and technological knowledge
and expertise. This will require strengthening Luxembourg’s research sector.
Research is needed on sustainable materials, construction elements, integration of
functionalities, reusability of elements, refurbishment techniques, etc. Digitalization will
enhance the design process in transforming buildings into nodes, while digitally mediated
prototyping and virtual reality techniques will help establish the complex interconnections and
synergies that optimize the building’s Internet of Things infrastructure. Transforming buildings
into intelligent, distributed, and cognitive systems will require the coming together of skills
across academic disciplines, raising the bar for world-class academic and research centers.
Luxembourg will need to invest in establishing biosphere valley research centers that can
attract the best scientific talent from around the world.
4.3 RDI: Develop the University of Luxembourg as a TIR living lab
A university is not only the place for research and education of students, but also a campus and
community, not unlike other neighborhoods or districts, with its own buildings, transportation
modes, and public commons. Consideration should be given to transforming the University of
Luxembourg into a “Living Lab”, where professors and students from across the various
academic disciplines can come together and transform the campus buildings and infrastructure
into a nodal Internet of Things platform and Third Industrial Revolution test site for the
research, development, and deployment of TIR technologies and concepts.
The scientific priorities of the University of Luxembourg include Computational Sciences,
Finance, Security, Reliability, and Trust, and fit well with the implementation of the TIR concept.
University researchers and students can actively participate in transforming their campuses into
a smart digital TIR community.
5 Create a Resilience Commissioner in charge of economic, societal and
environmental resilience
The Commissioner should monitor upcoming worldwide trends and coordinate the efforts to
prepare Luxembourg’s resiliency efforts. The building and infrastructure requirements in the
emerging Third Industrial Revolution era are qualitatively different than in the past. Real-time
climate change is dramatically impacting the water cycles of the Earth, resulting in extreme
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