Partners and Sponsors
Our mission is to accelerate the energy transition by bringing together the right partners from the academic and business world to integrate and innovate in the construction environment.
Partners
We educate students and advance knowledge in science & technology for the benefit of humanity. We integrate education and research to enable our students and scientists to become thought leaders and to design and achieve the unimaginable. In close collaboration with our public and private partners, we translate our basic research into meaningful solutions.
Social housing corporation Woonbedrijf aims to provide a comfortable and undisturbed way of living for its residents. What comfortable and undisturbed entails, differs per resident. That’s why experiences and opinions of our residents are leading for our work. Our greatest social achievement lies in having and maintaining a large stock of affordable rental housing in the Eindhoven Metropolitan Area.
Eaton is a power management company that provides energy-efficient solutions that help their customers manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services.
Geerts Installaties is a modern, dynamic and solid family business, specialized in energy-saving and mechanical installations for various sectors. They are always aware of innovative thinking, which means that a solution can always be found for the most evolving problems of building obstacles. Geerts Installaties makes use of innovative systems, meets systems or designs the system itself.
In the building and real estate sector, Hesta Eindhoven BV is known as the specialist in steel structures. Ranging from small maintenance work to complex construction for renovation and new construction projects. Moreover, they deliver steel projects such as (decorative) fences, steel plinths and windows and offer solutions for temporary housing and storage.
HoCoSto is a company that has defined as a mission to restore the earth. They do this by lowering the consumption of fossil fuels. For this, they have developed a Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STES): an underground water tank. In this STES, energy is stored as heat in water. This heat can be used later. The STES or HoCoSto will be placed underneath CASA 1.0. In future projects, it will not only be used as energy storage, but also as the foundation.
De Groot Vroomshoop supplies different ranges of products, such as facades, rooftops and glued timber constructions. The exclusive usage of timber is done consciously. They like the warm and overall beautiful look of it and they also like the sustainability of the resource. Timber is easier to work with and also lighter than concrete. The Groot Vroomshoop will supply the facades of CASA 1.0.
SolarTech International BV (Energy Roof) focuses on the development of integrated solar thermal solutions, including design and advice, commercial and on-the-job support. They work at product development and supplying component of guaranteed high quality. Their solution for this is the ‘Energy Roof’: a roof that generates both heat and electricity. The ‘Energy roof’ will be placed on CASA 1.0.
The engineers and consultancy company Volantis surprises with and inspires new applications in the sectors of building, infrastructure and industry. They mostly work in the fields of energy and computer science. Volantis advises Team CASA regarding heat. Together with Volantis, Team CASA has designed its innovative heating system for CASA 1.0.
KAW thinks sustainability is important and showcases this in a personal, innovative, excellent and distinguished program called KAW/e. We bundle research and present the applications in projects. The ‘/e’ says something about the origin of our vision on sustainability and the close contact with the TU/e.
BeNext Smart Home offers divergent possibilities in the area of safety, comfort, healthy inside climate, energy saving and life-cycle resistance. The energy usage will be clear through independent and universal energy monitoring (NOM and EPV). In addition, the BeNext system makes it possible for service organizations to guard houses from a distance. With an easy app, the people living in the house can always control their house.
NRGTEQ is a developer and producer of technologically advanced heat pump systems. NRGTEQ was founded in 2010 and has already reached a level with which standard high-quality standard products can be delivered, but is also perfectly capable of responding flexibly to specific needs.Together with Team CASA, NRGTEQ designs a heat pump on direct current. This heat pump heats water when there is electricity from the roof to heat water for the STES (Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage) or seasonal buffer.
Vervest is a structural design & consultancy firm, with the main task to design safe constructions and to consult on constructions. They use a proactive method, introducing surprising innovative solutions. Then they make calculations and technical drawings, providing a full product that you can rely on. They helped Team CASA with the calculations of the construction.
Over the last 60 years, DYKA have grown to be an international provider of sustainable solutions for the building market. Not only does DYKA everything they need to get the best system design possible; DYKA are providing CASA 1.0 with everything that we need for the sewage and rainwater piping of our house. In addition, they are working with a new system that flushes the toilets with rainwater, to be integrated in our service core.
Facilitators
The goal of the project OPZuid
The establishment of an innovation hub where, in addition to technical skills and substantive knowledge, “21st-century skills” are central, such as system thinking, interdisciplinary cooperation and entrepreneurial attitude. Within the project, students, researchers and companies work together on solutions for major societal challenges, specifically in the field of Smart Cities.
This collaboration in Smart Cities leads to a better match between labour demand and supply:
- Insight into the need for innovations, knowledge and relevant trained personnel at Smart City-related companies and initiatives;
- Overview of potential Interdisciplinary Engineering Projects (IDEPs) with companies and insight into which training programs can and will give substance to this;
- 10 Interdisciplinary and hands-on collaborations between students, companies and researchers (IDEPs), student teams and startups
- A valorization process that works up knowledge and tangible results from the courses (IDEPs) to new products and startups.
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