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BEM QATAR & UAE –
SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SEMINAR
DUBAI, 26 MARCH 2015 – LEEN GOVAERTS
WE ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION TO A
SUSTAINABLE WORLD
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SUPPLY, (RE)USE OF RAW MATERIALS, FOOD SECURITY, AND QUALITY OF LIFE: VITO HAS THE RIGHT EXPERTISE TO TACKLE THESE GLOBAL SOCIAL CHALLENGES.
VITO : VISION ON TECHNOLOGY
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Energy Materials Chemistry
Health Land use
WE LINK GOVERNMENT, RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY IN AN OPEN
INNOVATION NETWORK
VITO IN NUMBERS
» 750 employees
» 26 nationalities
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» HQ in Mol, België. Offices in
Ostend, Berchem, Ghent, Genk
» Subsidiary in China
» 1000 research projects
» More than 400 patents
worldwide
» More than 500 research
partners
» 200 scientific
articles in 2014
» 150 mio € turnover in 2015
VITO PARTICIPATES IN PROJECTS WORLDWIDE
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ENERGYVILLE – RESEARCH CLUSTER ON
ENERGY & SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Building a new campus, Thor Park Genk
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BELGIAN BUILDING STOCK
In Belgium, about half of the buildings have been built before 1960, 80% before 1990, only 20% of
the building stock is younger than 25 years
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BELGIUM
BELGIAN BUILDING STOCK
In Europe, 64% of the residential building stock are single family dwellings. In Belgium the share
amounts to 80%.
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BELGIAN BUILDING STOCK
75% of the residential buildings in Belgium is privately owned (85% for single family dwellings, 35%
for appartments)
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BELGIAN BUILDING STOCK
The average residential energy consumption in Belgium is 35% above the European average
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Luxembourg
Denmark
Austria
Belgium
Estonia
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
Latvia
France
Czech Republic
Slovenia
EU (27 countries)
Hungary
Poland
Italy
Lithuania
Slovakia
Greece
Romania
Spain
Cyprus
Bulgaria
Portugal
Malta
Final residential energy consumtion per capita for 2010 (kWh). Source: Eurostat
THE CITY OF THE 21ST CENTURY
» Sustainable use of scarce resources : energy, materials, land use, money, human capital
» Green, low carbon economy: 80 to 95% emission reduction by 2050
» Resilient city : potential to adapt to changing circumstances eg. climate conditions
» High living quality, strong local economy
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GHG MITIGATION STRATEGIES (EUROPEAN REFERENCE)
» Built environment: residential + non-residential buildings
typically 40-60 % of emissions
tremendous cost-effective saving potential
» Transport and mobility
typically 15-30 % of emissions
requires major investments in public & soft transport
» Industry and energy production
share strongly dependent on local context
» Urban green infrastructure
cooling effect : 4% (parks, trees) to 10% (green roofs & facades) temperature reduction
Buildings
Transport
Green infrastructure
Consumption
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ENERGY STRATEGIES
Building
District
Regional scale
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OPTIMAL INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Macro - Meso - Micro and their integration in urban and
spatial planning
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MORE THEN ENERGY…
» More than 50% van of all materials excavated on
earth are used in construction
» Construction and demolition waste about 31% of
the total waste production in the EU
» Material use accounts for 20% of environmental
impact during total life cycle, and this is
increasing through more use of insulation
materials
Sustainable use of materials
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SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS, BUILDINGS, DISTRICTS
» Contribution to environmental impact categories such as global warming, depletion of mineral
resources, depletion of fossil fuels, photochemical ozone creation, acidification,..
» Used for product development, innovation, policy making, communication
Life cycle assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) as a harmonised
framework to understand the environmental impact of building materials, elements, buildings
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URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Air quality
Urban Climate
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URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
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SMART & SUSTAINABLE CITY PROJECTS
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CONTACTS
Leen Govaerts – Director Smart Energy & Built Environment
Walter Buydens – Director Middle East Operations
THANK YOU !
