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Case Study: Project Cité

Name of organisation: Stichting Stadswonen

Stage of development: in progress

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: construction

Area: urban

Scale: group of buildings

Type of building: house in multiple occupation i.e. hotel

Number of units/dwellings: 494

Tenure: social rental

Street: Laan op Zuid 61-207

Postcode: 3072 DB

City: Rotterdam

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Country: Netherlands

Last Update: 28.06.2010

Funding Work with Residents Capacity Building Heating and Hot Water Ventilation Solar Photovoltaic

Short Description

Situated at the “Kop van Zuid” in the city of Rotterdam, Cité is built for (international) students, graduates and young entrepreneurs. The green building is endowed with a geothermal heat pump, solar water heaters and a complete ventilation system. We are working on the awareness of the energy consumption of the residents, by realising an energy-website on which the energy consumption will be visual, every single day. In this case we cooperate with the company Metsens B.V. (Look for the demo at cite.oursens.nl ; user name: demoen and code: demo).

Key Elements

Capacity Building

Via an online application, there is training and awareness raising about the use of energy.

Work with Residents

Students get energy advice and support to diminish their energy consumption.

Funding

Cité is owned by C.V. Cité. That is a limited partnership of Stadswonen and three other housing associations (region Zeeland, The Netherlands). Stadswonen is the general partner.

Ventilation

The building has a complete ventilation system.

Heating and Hot Water

Cité has a geothermal heat pump (using renewable energy).

Solar Photovoltaic

The building has solar water heaters.

Main Results

No outcomes as yet.

(The building is ready to use, the installations are working, but the residents start to move in at august 2010).

Lessons learned

The effectiveness of the awareness programs and the online energy applications are not measurable at the moment (over a year we can evaluate).

The realisation of C.V. Cité was not easy, especially the juridical process was difficult. The rules and restrictions of the government where delaying the process from time to time. How the ‘green’ system is helping to reduce the energy consumption, we don’t know yet. These results needs to be evaluated over the coming years, while the building is in use.

Additional Information

Together with the new residents we want to complete the awareness programs. New ideas are welcome. In the past, we initiated an energy-battle between student-groups. Such battles could possibly be organised in Cité, but only in partnership the new residents, who will arrive at august 2010.