TY - JOUR AU - van Eck, Randy AU - de Vries, Bauke AU - Wijnen, A AU - Nix, K AU - van den Heuvel, J PY - 2019/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Sustainable Performance Optimization for Digital Housing JF - SPOOL JA - SPOOL VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Projects DO - 10.7480/spool.2019.2.4375 UR - https://spool.ac/index.php/spool/article/view/134 SP - 51-54 AB - <p>With natural resources depleting, sustainable solutions are becoming more and more a necessity. To deal with the depleting resources, the Dutch government aims to generate 14% of country’s energy consumption through natural resources by 2020. The Dutch built environment is estimated to be responsible for 38.1% of the total energy consumption. This means that investments and innovation within this area have high potential.</p><p>However, there are some indications that these goals cannot be met. New houses often meet these requirements but, with a growth of 0.8% per year, these only make up for a small portion of all projects. As a result, a strong focus lays on improving and renovating the existing housing market towards a sustainable and low energy environment. For this transition, information on the current housing market, possible renovation options and insight on the investments costs are required.</p><p>Within this PDEng-project the aim is to further develop WoonConnect, a digital tool that can help to speed up this transition for both renovation projects and new buildings.</p> ER -