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Transforming social housing neighbourhoods into sustainable carbon-neutral districts
In the context of European and Flemish demonstration projects and living labs several social housing neighbourhoods in Belgium are transformed into sustainable carbon neutral districts. The neighbourhoods are located in different Flemish cities and consist of various housing typologies constructed during the 20th century, eg terraced and semi-detached houses built in the 1950’s, multifamily appartment blocks built in the 1970’s or a century old historically valuable urban street. Tailor-made solutions for retrofitting building envelope and systems were developed in order to reach a very low energy demand that is compensated by renewable energy supply. The main goal of the projects is to reach the high energy performance targets and quality of life in reality, that is during operation and occupancy. In order to evaluate the actual operation of the buildings and building systems during the first years of occupancy of the neighbourhood, energy monitoring and commissioning activities are performed. They include monitoring of energy use and temperatures, surveys of the occupants and quality assurance tests. In this key note lecture an overview is given of solutions developed for the different neighbourhoods, and the approach and findings of commissioning and monitoring activities are discussed. The findings show that commissioning of building systems and monitoring during occupancy are a vital part of the completion and operational lifetime of a building project, and a valuable contribution to achieve the targeted quality.
Transforming social housing neighbourhoods into sustainable carbon-neutral districts
In the context of European and Flemish demonstration projects and living labs several social housing neighbourhoods in Belgium are transformed into sustainable carbon neutral districts. The neighbourhoods are located in different Flemish cities and consist of various housing typologies constructed during the 20th century, eg terraced and semi-detached houses built in the 1950’s, multifamily appartment blocks built in the 1970’s or a century old historically valuable urban street. Tailor-made solutions for retrofitting building envelope and systems were developed in order to reach a very low energy demand that is compensated by renewable energy supply. The main goal of the projects is to reach the high energy performance targets and quality of life in reality, that is during operation and occupancy. In order to evaluate the actual operation of the buildings and building systems during the first years of occupancy of the neighbourhood, energy monitoring and commissioning activities are performed. They include monitoring of energy use and temperatures, surveys of the occupants and quality assurance tests. In this key note lecture an overview is given of solutions developed for the different neighbourhoods, and the approach and findings of commissioning and monitoring activities are discussed. The findings show that commissioning of building systems and monitoring during occupancy are a vital part of the completion and operational lifetime of a building project, and a valuable contribution to achieve the targeted quality.
Transforming social housing neighbourhoods into sustainable carbon-neutral districts
Janssens, Arnold (author) / Vaillant Rebollar, Julio (author) / Himpe, Eline (author) / Delghust, Marc (author) / Laverge, Jelle (author)
2016-01-01
MACDES.2016 Cuarto Congreso Internacional ; ISBN: 978-959-261-533-5
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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