Population ageing has become a domain of international discussions and research throughout the spectrum of disciplines including housing, urban planning, and real estate. Older people are encouraged to continue living in their homes in their familiar environment, and this is referred to as “ageing-in-place”. Enabling one to age-in-place requires new housing arrangements that facilitate and enable older adults to live comfortably into old age, preferably with others. Innovative examples are provided from a Dutch social housing association, illustrating a new approach to environmental design that focuses more on building new communities in conjunction with the building itself, as opposed to the occupational therapeutic approaches and environmental support. Transformation projects, referred to as “Second Youth Experiments”, are conducted using the Røring method, which is based on the principles of co-creation. De Benring in Voorst, The Netherlands, is provided as a case study of an innovative transformation project. This project shows how social and technological innovations can be integrated in the retrofitting of existing real estate for older people. It leads to a flexible use of the real estate, which makes the building system- and customer preference proof. Original article at: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings8070089 © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI.
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U wilt in een energiezuinig, of wellicht energieneutraal huis wonen. U wilt uw woning zo aanpassen dat deze klaar is voor de toekomst. U heeft hierbij uw persoonlijke wensen en ideeën, maar ook nog vragen. Op het gebied van energiezuinig verbouwen zijn er veel mogelijkheden. De kieswijzer laat u de drie ‘beste keuzes’ zien voor de aanpak van een energieneutrale verbouwing. Bovendien geeft het u achtergrondinformatie over de begrippen die door aannemers en installateurs gebruikt worden bij het energieneutraal maken van uw woning. Voordelen energieneutrale woning • Verbruikt uitsluitend energie uit hernieuwbare bronnen zoals zon, wind of biomassa • Is daarmee wat energieverbruik betreft toekomstbestendig • Heeft een lagere CO2-uitstoot, is dus beter voor het milieu • Heeft een veel lagere energierekening • Biedt meer comfort en heeft een gezonder binnenklimaat • Heeft een hogere marktwaarde
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Thermal disinfection is probably the oldest water treatment method ever used. Similarly to other disinfection processes, it targets the inactivation of pathogenic (micro)organisms present in water, wastewater and other media. In this work, a pilot-scale continuous-flow thermal disinfection system was investigated using highly contaminated hospital wastewater as influent without any pre-treatment step for turbidity removal. The results proved that the tested system can be used with influent turbidity as high as 100 NTU and still provide up to log 8 microbial inactivation. Further results have shown energy consumption comparable to other commercially available thermal disinfection systems and relatively low influence on the investigated physical–chemical parameters.
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