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Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam

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Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
The building on the Grasweg, known since 2021 as the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
Established1914; 112 years ago (1914)
Research typeApplied
Field of research
Energy, chemistry, materials
AddressGrasweg 31
LocationAmsterdam, Netherlands
52°23′20″N 4°54′01″E / 52.38898°N 4.90036°E / 52.38898; 4.90036Coordinates: 52°23′20″N 4°54′01″E / 52.38898°N 4.90036°E / 52.38898; 4.90036
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Operating agency
Shell
Websitewww.energytransitioncampus.com

The Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA) is a research and innovation campus on the Grasweg in Amsterdam-Noord, in the Netherlands. It is operated by the energy company Shell and houses the Amsterdam Shell Technology Centre, by far its largest occupant. Alongside the laboratory, other companies, research organisations and start-ups are based on the site as campus "members", working on subjects related to the energy transition.[1][2]

The laboratory traces its origins to 1914, when the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch/Shell group, opened a laboratory on the northern bank of the IJ. It was renamed the Koninklijke/Shell-Laboratorium Amsterdam (Royal Dutch/Shell Laboratory Amsterdam, KSLA) in 1949 and, after moving into a purpose-built complex in 2009, continued as the Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam (STCA). In 2021 Shell announced that it would open the site to outside organisations, and the campus took its present name.[1] According to Shell, Amsterdam is one of the company's three principal research locations worldwide, the others being in Bangalore, India, and Houston, United States.[1]

Site and buildings

The campus stands at Grasweg 31, in the Buiksloterham neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord, on the northern part of Shell's former laboratory estate. The residential district of Overhoeks has been developed on the southern part of that same estate, immediately to the south-east.

The complex was built between 2005 and 2009 to a design by Arcadis Architecten and the Van Mourik Architecten [nl] practice, with Heijmans as main contractor. It comprises some 80,000 square metres of offices, laboratories, test halls, workshops and storage space.[3][4] Between 2015 and 2017 the building was enlarged by the 8,500-square-metre laboratory wing L-East, an increase of just over ten per cent in floor area.[5] Shell's holding at the location amounts to about 7 hectares of the original 27.

History

Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij laboratory (1914–1949)

The Laboratorium van de Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij Amsterdam (LBPMA) was established in 1914 on land belonging to the Dordtsche Petroleum Maatschappij, part of the group formed by the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the Shell Transport and Trading Company. It began with nine staff and grew over the decades into a 27-hectare estate with more than 40 buildings and a maximum of about 2,200 employees.[6]

Royal Dutch/Shell Laboratory Amsterdam (1949–2009)

On 19 January 1949 the laboratory was renamed Koninklijke/Shell-Laboratorium Amsterdam (KSLA).[7] In 1954 the KSLA became the first Dutch company to put an electronic computer into service; it was the second computer in the Netherlands, after the ARRA (computer).[8]

Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam (2009–2021)

Between 2005 and 2009 a new research centre, the Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam, was built on the northern part of the estate, reducing Shell's footprint there to about 7 hectares. The laboratory moved out of its scattered older buildings into the new complex in early 2009, and the centre was formally inaugurated in September 2009 in the presence of the then Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander.[3]

Arrival of the Rijswijk research (2015–2018)

In 2015 Shell began building the L-East wing, intended for laboratory research into the interaction between fluids and rock, and thus into more efficient recovery of oil and gas. The extension was designed to bring several specialisms together on one site; researchers from Rijswijk were among those due to move to Amsterdam.[9][5] Shell had operated the Royal Dutch/Shell Exploration and Production Laboratory [nl] (KSEPL) in Rijswijk since 1961; it had grown into the company's global headquarters for technology and research.

In October 2017 Shell announced the closure of the Rijswijk site. Its more than 2,000 staff were transferred over the following years to The Hague and Amsterdam, the company stating that the Amsterdam location was being expanded to accommodate them.[10] Shell vacated its well research and test centre in Rijswijk in 2018, leaving the equipment behind; it became the basis of the Rijswijk Centre for Sustainable Geo-energy, set up by the research organisation TNO.[11] Subsurface research has since been one of the Amsterdam site's areas of work.

Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (from 2021)

In 2021 Shell announced that it would open its research and development facilities on the northern bank of the IJ to start-ups, scale-ups, academics and companies working on the energy transition, and renamed the location the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam.[1] The campus was formally opened in June 2022 by the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, with fourteen organisations presented as its first members.[12]

Campus members

Besides the Shell laboratory, occupants of the campus have included the grid operator Alliander, TNO, Utrecht University, Technip Energies, Kongsberg, Yokogawa, Corvus Energy, Databricks, C3.ai and a number of start-ups.[12] Members have access to office space, laboratories and shared research facilities, and collaborate on themes such as hydrogen, electrification, carbon capture and storage, geothermal energy, circularity and low-carbon fuels.[2] Shell reports that around a thousand people of more than fifty nationalities work at the location.[1]

Research

Work on the campus covers catalysis, fuels and lubricants, gas technology, rock and subsurface research, and digital technologies. Engineers on site design, build and maintain much of the roughly 1,300 test installations and pilot set-ups themselves.[13] In March 2026 a facility was commissioned that allows catalysts for the production of sustainable aviation fuel to be tested in sixteen nanoreactors simultaneously.[14]

Shell put the research budget of the Amsterdam site at about one million US dollars a day in 2017.[15] In 2013 the location ranked, alongside Philips and ASML, among the largest private spenders on research and development in the Netherlands; Shell's worldwide R&D budget that year was 1.3 billion dollars.[16]

Former laboratory estate

The city of Amsterdam bought 20 of the 27 hectares of the Shell estate for 141 million euros.[17] All the older Shell buildings were demolished apart from the Groot Laboratorium [nl], the Overhoeks Tower, the gatehouse, the staff restaurant, the medical service building and the Tolhuis [nl] restaurant. The Overhoeks district was developed on the site. The Groot Laboratorium was converted into A Lab, a workspace for media technology,[18] while the Overhoeks Tower was bought by the dance event company ID&T and redeveloped into a mix of hotel, offices and entertainment venues, reopening in 2016 as the A'DAM Toren.[19]

Notable researchers

Art-historical research

As part of a programme in which Shell works with museums, researchers from the laboratory have contributed since 2005 to technical research at the Van Gogh Museum.[20] Using optical microscopy, infrared reflectography and nanoscale techniques, they helped examine the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, including the lower paint layers. The findings were used in exhibitions, scientific publications and the museum's collection catalogue.

One outcome was the conclusion that Van Gogh was not an impulsive painter but prepared his works carefully.[21] He was found to have used mixtures of five kinds of white, among them baryte, in varying proportions; researchers suspect he did so to study how the pigments absorbed oil.

In 2012 Shell announced a collaboration with the Mauritshuis in The Hague.[22] It gave the museum access to researchers and laboratory facilities for the study of ceiling paintings by the Venetian artist Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, yielding insight into the techniques and materials used and assisting the museum's conservators in their restoration work.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA)" (in Nederlands). Shell Nederland. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam". Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam". Gebouwd in Amsterdam (in Nederlands). Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "Shell Technology Centre". Overhoeks.nl (in Nederlands). Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2026. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Shell Technology Centre, Amsterdam" (in Nederlands). Hurks. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  6. ↑ Research aan het IJ 1914–1989 (in Dutch), p. 141.
  7. ↑ Research aan het IJ 1914–1989 (in Dutch), p. 128.
  8. ↑ "Newspaper report on the KSLA computer". Delpher, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (in Nederlands). 1954. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Shell breidt lab uit in Amsterdam-Noord". PropertyNL (in Nederlands). 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Shell sluit hoofdkantoor onderzoek en opleiding in Rijswijk" (in Nederlands). NOS. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "Rijswijk Centre for Sustainable Geo-energy is laboratorium voor boringen". Expertise Netwerk Bodem en Ondergrond (in Nederlands). Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam: Faster together". Energy Business Review. 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "Visit to Shell Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam" (in Nederlands). KIVI. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  14. ↑ Burger, Marcel (2026). "Bij Shell in Amsterdam wordt SAF verder uitgedokterd". Shell Venster (in Nederlands). Shell Nederland. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  15. ↑ Shell in Nederland – In het kort, editie 2017 (in Dutch). Shell Nederland.
  16. ↑ "R&D-uitgaven Nederlandse bedrijven" (PDF). Technisch Weekblad (in Nederlands). 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  17. ↑ "Amsterdam koopt terrein van Shell". de Volkskrant (in Nederlands). Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  18. ↑ "A Lab". Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  19. ↑ "Shell-toren omgebouwd tot mix van hotel en club". Cobouw (in Nederlands). 8 October 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  20. ↑ "Shell steunt onderzoek Van Goghs". de Volkskrant (in Nederlands). 11 November 2005. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  21. ↑ "Chemici Shell openbaren werkwijze Vincent van Gogh". Trouw (in Nederlands). 11 November 2005. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  22. ↑ "Mauritshuis heeft financiering verbouwing rond". Metro (in Nederlands). 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2026. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)



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