Our research showcase

The web-based calculation tool TOTEM was launched in February 2018. The simple and transparent tool enables environmental impact calculations at the building (element) level and was developed as part of a collaboration between the three regional Belgian authorities, VITO / …

EnergyVille has developed a number of products and tools to support decision making and to monitor the impacts from building renovation and energy transition programmes and initiatives. These tools allow to shift between various levels of details/scope: from the building …

City Portal is an interactive and smart platform with building data for collective renovation of residential buildings at district, city, provincial and regional level. In 2019 Fluvius provides this tool to all cities and municipalities in Flanders as a free service.

Increasingly more buildings and building districts combine several energy sources, both renewable and fossil, with different energy carriers such as electricity and heat. As a result, the integration and interactions of these different sources and carriers become more …

An EPD (environmental product declaration) is a standardized way to quantify the environmental performance of a product, process or system and to report on it. EPD’s are based on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

There are many ways to make a house more energy efficient: insulate better, install a heat pump ... The EBECS algorithms of VITO/EnergyVille provide specific advice based on the size of the house and the energy consumption of the residents. Bank-insurer KBC, Cozie’s …

The activity district heating and cooling focuses on the development, demonstration and implementation of intelligent control of networks and substations, tools for designing DHC networks, low temperature networks, multi-carrier energy networks and district cooling networks …

EnergyVille’s software for route determination defines the ideal cluster for your district heating from a collection of potential heating consumers and potential heating suppliers. The software calculates this completely automatically by mapping out the location of consumers …

EnergyVille’s thermal research on economic feasibility maps out all financial parameters of a district heating network and provides a detailed overview of its costs and advantages. The result is a user-friendly calculation model you can use to easily determine the economic …

We assist our business partners in designing a cost-optimal future energy system in terms of energy conversion and energy consumption technologies. System-wide future capital and operating expenditures are minimised while realising pre-defined targets on energy efficiency …

The STORM-controller is an innovative district heating and cooling network controller based on self-learning algorithms and artificial intelligence, which was deployed and tested in several demonstration sites. The controller has the ambition to decrease the use of fossil …

The Smart Readiness Indicator aims at making the added value of building smartness more tangible for building users, owners, tenants and smart service providers. Want to know more about the benefits and the methodology used? Then read on!