An enormous challenge has risen regarding our existing housing stock, as the result of ambitious agreements to reduce global carbon emissions. Until now the focus has been mostly on improving energy efficiency technically by ameliorating the energy performance of the building envelope. Insulation, controlled …

Maintaining energy balance is a challenge shared by all animals which has resulted in an enormous variety of strategies for maintaining this vital balance. One of these is torpor, a mechanism that slows down basic metabolic rate (BMR) which results in a low expenditure of energy otherwise used to maintain …

Er is onderzoek gedaan naar het gebruik van HeatSavr voor energiebesparing bij zwembaden.

Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has a business growth objective of gaining more orders in the wind turbine generator installation field. For this purpose the company is interested in finding alternative solutions for their installation methods. The main subject of this report is finding alternative solutions …

In this paper Etto Salomons presents his vision of the GoGreen project on a smart home that is capable of decreasing energy consumption while at the same time increasing user comfort. To identify the main challenges he introduces a general model for intelligent homes that describes the current state, …

Stromsparpotentiale im Haus: Ergebnisse aus dem Projekt Flexines.

Presentatie 20-01-2011.

Energy efficiency has gained a lot of prominence in recent debates on urban sustainability and housing policy due to its potential consequences for climate change. At the local, national and also international level, there are numerous initiatives to promote energy savings and the use of renewable energy …

Afstudeerscriptie van studenten van Van Hall Larenstein Velp, Naar aanleiding van de deelname van Gemeente Nijmegen aan het Europese project Future Cities, wil de gemeente een subsidieregeling voor groene daken opzetten. De gemeente wil de subsidie op een onderbouwde wijze inzetten. De vraag van de gemeente …