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Flamco sponsors the pilot with technical installation advice, system components and remote data service.
In the future, social rental housing may be equipped with an integrated PV thermal power generation system with seasonal energy storage. In Helmond, students from TU Eindhoven (Team CASA) are constructing a pilot house with this system with the housing corporation Woonbedrijf and construction company Hurks.
Brainport Smart District must become the most innovative district in the world. In this part of the Helmond neighbourhood of Brandevoort, all kinds of new techniques and insights are being applied to create a sustainable and beautiful living and working environment. Students from Eindhoven University of Technology (Team CASA), together with housing corporation Woonbedrijf and construction company Hurks, is building a house here (CASA 1.0) with groundbreaking technology devised by the students.
The project receives subsidies from the European Union, the province of Noord-Brabant and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The aim is to build an alternative to social rental housing that is Comfortable, Affordable and Sustainable Alternative (CASA). Inventor and team manager Antoine Post: "In this pilot, we will test the correct dimensioning of architectural and installation techniques to scale them up for future housing construction."
Start date
2020
End date
May 2021
Partners
TU Eindhoven (Team CASA)
Housing corporation Woonbedrijf
Hurks construction company
Location
Helmond (Netherlands)
In the house with three apartments, various existing techniques, often based on innovative technologies, are combined. In this installation, there will be an innovative system for the generation and storage of sustainable energy.
However, the system is made up of existing components that are uniquely integrated for heating, cooling, and ventilation purposes. Solar energy is generated via the PV thermal roof (PV panels with underlying piping) to heat the house and provide electricity. The heated water is stored in an enormous tank (100,000 litres) under the house. For example, in winter, heat can be extracted to heat the building in an energy-neutral manner and provide it with domestic hot water.
The house will be equipped with an integrated PV thermal energy generation and seasonal energy storage system.
Flamco is sponsoring the pilot with technical installation advice, Flamco manufactured system components and remote data service monitoring. The house, which will consist of three apartments, will be ready at the beginning of May. Thanks to our energy meters and Flamconnect Remote Service, the installation can be continuously monitored and improved. The practical experience provides valuable data with which construction partners can optimise the future's social housing in terms of energy supply.
Can you also equip social rental homes with a sustainable energy system? As far as Flamco is concerned, it is. And that is why we innovate with Team CASA. Eindhoven University of Technology's student team is building a pilot house in the Brainport Smart District in Helmond, together with housing corporation Woonbedrijf and construction company Hurks.
More information about Team CasaFlamco has been involved in the development, production and sale of high-quality components for use in HVAC systems since 1956. It is part of the stocklisted Aalberts NV, instituted in 1975. Along with Comap, which helps manage water and energy through its thermal and sanitary products that increase comfort in buildings, the Aalberts hydronic flow control business unit was constituted. Stronger together, Flamco and Comap will continue to build mission critical technologies to manage heating and cooling humanly with better financial and environmental efficacy. From source to emitter we partner with our customers to engineer seamless energy efficient hydronic systems for their building requirements.
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