Sustainability K'U'Leuven

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Sustainability_at_ K.U.Leuven
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Sustainability

• Energy-coördinator (E-man)
• Integration in building projects
• Future projects commisioning/recommisioning

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Energy coördinator

• Since 2006
• Developing Culture of Sustainability
• Project E-MAN

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E-man
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E-man

• Campaign for sensibilisation
• Web-site
• Local REU-promotors (Reduced Energy Use)

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Building projects
K.U.Leuven has a tradition of building with very
low budgets
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Low budgets
Onderwijs Navorsing 2 Education-research-adminis
tration - 1000 euro/m²B all in realisation 2005
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Low budgets
Onderwijs Navorsing 4 Biotech research - 1400
euro/m²B all in start construction sept 2007
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Starting point
low budget ltgt sustainability
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Cooling
Non cooling standard Dont cool unless you have
to serverrooms, equipment rooms, tissue culture
labs. No comfort cooling
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Cooling
BUT Comfort standards rise SO Building simulation
during design is necessary to maintain accepable
climate
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Flexibility
80s 90s KULeuven developed its own modular
high flexible labfurniture
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flexibility

• BUT
• Price 50 compared to standard furniture
• After 10 years flexibility hardly used
• SO
• Now standard furniture is used

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Flexibility
Flexibility not only as principle during
design ALSO During programming
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Flexibility-program
Scaling up labspaces Rather larger (wet)labs
than individualized labs Encouraging modularity
- repetition
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Flexibility-program
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Conclusion building projects
Low budgets sustainability ? Water fire
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Conclusion building projects
Low budgets sustainability Catalyst for
thorough decision based design process
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Conclusion building projects

• Conditions
• Intensified study simulation
• Scaling down sustainability topics to real
  user/owner/client needs

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Overall conclusion

• SUSTAINABILITY
• NEVER ENDING PROCES