Cities worldwide are facing increasing problems such as heat stress, energy scarcity, water shortages and surpluses, and declining livability. A future where quality of life, well-being and economic resilience reinforce each other requires new solutions for energy, food and water – enabled by technology, vision and investment power. Cities play a key role in this as platforms for integrated innovation and a foundation for resilient communities, where these tasks can be cleverly combined into scalable solutions.
ACE Global develops applicable concepts and realizes innovative projects that contribute to strong local ecosystems, with financial viability as a starting point. A unique example is the ACE Layered Cake concept: a model where different functions such as energy generation, energy and water storage, biodiversity and social infrastructure are integrated in layers within urban spaces. In doing so, our innovative table systems function as hubs for energy, water and social cohesion – literally the new heart arteries of the city.
We believe that community self-reliance is essential for sustainable progress. This is how we build a world where prosperity, well-being and resilience go hand in hand.
About ACE Global
ACE Global was founded on the belief that technological and social innovation can reinforce each other in addressing the urgencies we face. Since our founding, we have been working on economically viable projects that make sustainable solutions accessible and help build resilient, self-reliant communities.
As a quartermaster of broad systems change, we focus on cohesive solutions for energy, food and water, with cities as key sites for sustainable change. After all, cities are places where challenges converge as well as where solutions can be scaled up. For us, these future scenarios are about broad prosperity and represent essential steps in sustainable, long-term structural transformation.
ACE Global plays an active role in this: we initiate and develop concepts into applicable and feasible projects and bring the right parties together to enable sustainable transformation.
At ACE Global, every project begins with the end goal firmly in mind. We connect social vision with financial soundness. Not as a keystone, but as a foundation. Using a proven investment model, we calculate backwards: what are the risks and opportunities, what is required in terms of investment, support and technology, and how do we make it economically viable? This approach enables complex projects to not only be designed, but to actually be realized together with partners and investors, with support, trust and long-term value.
Our projects can arise from a variety of starting points – whether they involve social functions, such as sports, culture or spatial issues, such as urban planning – as long as they contribute to multifunctional and structural solutions with measurable social added value on the square meter.
ACE Global selects the right partners and assembles multidisciplinary teams that can translate vision into executable projects. This is how we build robust systems that are future-proof, affordable, achievable, viable, and feasible and therefore have the confidence of partners and investors. From the beginning of our projects, the impact – economic, environmental and social – is measurable and scalable, so that we build not just innovation, but real progress with social return.
ACE Global R&D:
from innovation to system solution
In ACE Global R&D, we develop system solutions that address the urgencies facing cities today, and this goes beyond technical or technological innovation. They are economic, technical, technological and social innovations all in one. What emerges in the concept phase grows into part of integral urban sustainability projects. Consider solutions for energy storage, circular water structures or urban food production.
These innovations come together in models such as the ACE Global Layered Cake concept: a layered approach that connects energy, water, data and social functions spatially and functionally.
For the application of the ACE Layered Cake concept, we see great opportunities in the existing network of sports fields in urban areas. These can be transformed into multifunctional energy hubs that bring together sports, energy generation, water storage and social connection. In addition to health, these places strengthen the energy and water security of local communities.
This creates an intricate network of self-sufficient hubs across the urban landscape – places vital to the resilience, livability and sustainability of our cities.
With our urban planning innovations, we are building an urban infrastructure that is not only prepared for today’s challenges, but also future-proofed for tomorrow’s generations.
Team
ACE Global B.V.
Erwin Mulder
CEO
e.mulder@aceglobal.nl
Wim J. Scheele, Msc.
Associate, Compliance officer & Consultant
w.scheele@aceglobal.nl
Wout W. M. van den Bedem
Associate, Compliance officer & Consultant
w.vdbedem@aceglobal.nl
Frans M. J. van Rijn
Legal Counsel
f.vanrijn@aceglobal.nl
ACE R&D B.V.
Max Macauley
m.macauley@aceglobal.nl
