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| Van de Walle winner of the Belgian Building Awards 2012 The Confederatie Bouw (Construction Federation) has awarded its annual Building Innovation Award to two companies involved in micro cogeneration – Van de Walle Bouwgroep and installer De Jaeger, both based in Aalter, East Flanders. Cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power (CHP), is an established technique for producing heat from the generation of electricity. The two companies take the technique one step further, to micro-CHP, which involves more compact installations for the storage of the heat produced. Normally, heat is stored in water, but the two companies have jointly developed the means of storing heat in paraffin for better efficiency. The technique is in use in the four-star Sandton Grand Hotel Reylof in Ghent, a renovated 18th century building with insufficient room to house a conventional CHP unit. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Construction News :: home page |