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
Region/ County:
Country: Netherlands
Last Update: 28.06.2010
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.


