Challenge Neighborhood Block: Housing as a Service in Leeuwarden: How can you as a housing corporation solve the increasing shortage of sufficient affordable, sustainable and quality new housing? The social housing company WoonFriesland sees the solution in the “Buurblok” concept. Buurblok is a development by Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma (BGDD) and Wocozon. It consists of a…
Challenge Sustainable prefab house with PVT heat pump solar panels. Architect Joris Verhoeven designed and built a sustainable prefab house. PVT heat pump solar panels are on the roof as a source for the alpha innotec heat pump. This design has been nominated as the most sustainable house in the Netherlands. The sustainable house of…
Challenge 1930s house sustainable renovation with PVT-panels as source for the heatpump: The typical 1930s home of Mr. Mol from Heiloo, The Netherlands is a pointed roof house with large 60-degree roof surfaces. Built in 1938, the house was also completely original inside. With gas heater and emergency shower in the utility room. In 1996 it…
Challenge Heating an old house all electric in Groningen: As you may know, the village of ‘t Zandt lies in the middle of the earthquake area of Groningen. Technisch Installatiebedrijf Bakker knows all about this and helps their customers with these challenges. This project was a strengthening and preservation of the older house which was…
Challenge How do you make a 40-year-old high rise sustainable? And save 60% on gas consumption / heating bill? The housing corporation Vivare, which is active in the Arnhem region with some 25,000 housing units, had this question in mind for some time: how can we make existing housing complexes more sustainable and how can…
Challenge Zuiderschans care home all-electric in Den Bosch: Housing association Zayaz from Den Bosch wants to let people participate in society through good housing and vital, attractive neighbourhoods. They are committed to neighborhoods and districts, to make and keep them safe and livable. For example, by renovating and maintaining homes. But also by building more…
Challenge All-electric house in Wormer. How do you make an existing house all electric? And how to make an entire street fossil free? Yes, it is possible, an entire street that becomes gasless / all electric. This month the third house on Poelweg in Wormer will be equipped with Triple Solar PVT heat pump solar…
Challenge Villa on the beach: On top of the dunes in Noordwijk, on the beach overlooking the sea. What a super beautiful spot for this sustainable villa. Noordwijk aan Zee is the flower seaside resort of the Netherlands. It has no less than 13 kilometers of beach, the beautiful dunes and the colorful flower fields.…
Challenge Houseboat with PVT heat pump solar panels Amsterdam: How do you heat an old steel houseboat? Preferably without an enormous gas bill. And also without having to hoist a gas bottle on board very often. In addition, houseboat residents have a natural need to be independent. When the municipality of Amsterdam introduced a subsidy…
Challenge New build all electric apartments Dongen, The Netherlands: Fine, sustainable and affordable living for people with modest incomes. That’s what the Casade housing association provides. In the municipality of Dongen there was a desire to build 18 new apartments, which had to be as sustainable as possible. And therefore also fossil free. Sustainable building…
