Our research showcase

The web-based calculation tool TOTEM, which was launched in 2018, allows to assess the environmental impact of buildings over their whole life cycle. The TOTEM tool was developed as part of a collaboration between the three Belgian regional authorities. The consortium of …

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 …

After successful and high-performance testing on various demo sites, the STORM District Energy Controller is now available on the market. The controller ensures a lower use of fossil fuels and allows an increased share of residual heat and renewable sources in DHC networks …

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 …

By 2050, all (social) housing should achieve an EPC A label - that is the objective imposed for and by Flanders. For new buildings, the regulations sufficiently cover the energy objectives. But what about existing social housing? EnergyVille/VITO has developed a building …

Meet Open Thor, a state-of-the-art living lab for the energy transition that, in addition to strategic infrastructure, offers a unique ecosystem of innovation where co-development and co-creation between scientific, industrial and residential partners takes central stage …

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 …