The paper briefly describes the outcome of two inventories: 1) an inventory based on fact sheets about daily use and energy consumption of historical buildings (mainly relative small churches) in the North of the Netherlands, and; 2) an inventory based on interviews with owners of historical buildings …

Paper which introduces an method developed by the research group Duurzame Projectontwikkeling of the SIA-RAAK project Energieke Restauratie. Besides an discription of the method, it also describes the application of the method for three (fictional) case study projects: Dairy Factory Dongeradelen (Lioessens), …

Dit is Part 2 van het internationale SIA RAAK-project KOENST waarin onderzoek naar duurzame en energie-efficiënte productietechnologieën van kunststoffen centraal staat. In het kader van „energieoptimalisatie‟ is in hoofdstuk twee gestart met het analyseren van het energieverbruik van een aantal productieprocessen …

In het internationale SIA RAAK-project KOENST (Part 1) staat onderzoek naar duurzame en energie-efficiënte productietechnologieën van kunststoffen centraal. Als gevolg van de klimaatverandering wordt veel aandacht besteed aan het terugdringen van het energieverbruik in productieprocessen. Met name in …

Research and development of robots which can support elderly or disabled people is pursued to increase the quality of home care. With the ever increasing quality and functions of robots, full-time care by these robots becomes feasible. To make the robot function without any human interferences, the robot …

Flexigrow is a project which analyzes the performance of an all-electric neighborhood of energy efficient houses here in the Netherlands. The goal of this project is to determine whether or not the houses are performing as well as expected and how we might improve their performance using different infrastructure …

This report presents the experimental and numerical work carried out by ECN and Hanze University of Applied Sciences on methane sorption on activated carbon, as part of their activities within the EDGaR Energy Storage project. Eleven different activated carbon types were tested. It was found that MaxSorb …

The role of the 21st century energy sector has developed into being essential for the drafting of the national security strategies of the world’s nations. Hence, the states develop particular approaches and strategies in order to attain energy security. Furthermore, those particular actions, undertaken …

Verduurzamen / energie besparing van/op ziekenhuizen, toegespitst op de bedkamers van het Rijnstate ziekenhuis Arnhem. In samenwerking met Streamer project en dJGA achitecten.

Author supplied: Within the Netherlands the interest for sustainability is slowly growing. However, most organizations are still lagging behind in implementing sustainability as part of their strategy and in developing performance indicators to track their progress; not only in profit organizations …