To help cities and communities optimise the energy efficiency of their buildings, EQUANS designs and installs heat networks that enable them to meet the environmental challenge, while also controlling costs and enhancing their asset.
The heat networks designed and built by EQUANS provide comfort in the form of heat in commercial buildings, collective housing, industrial or public buildings while reducing CO2. From the installation to the maintenance of heat networks, we have extensive expertise and proven experience in the field, whether for business parks, new residential areas or shopping centres. For every project, we provide solutions that are adapted to the local context.
Heat networks in Brussels
In Brussels, our teams worked on the installation of a district heating system that uses waste heat from the waste incinerator in Neder-over-Heembeek to supply, among others, the Docks Bruxsel shopping centre and the buildings of Bruxelles-Propreté. This same heating network will also supply the Royal Estate of Laeken, reducing the buildings’ use of fossil fuels. Installation of the heating network in the Royal Estate, carried out by EQUANS and its partner Denys, began in November 2019 and should begin supplying energy to the Estate from the winter of 2020-2021. It will enable a reduction of 2,700 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Heat networks in Antwerp
Blue Gate Antwerp is a former industrial wasteland of the port of Antwerp’s oil operations, which has been converted into a sustainable business park. EQUANS has installed a heat network there that will eventually supply some 40 companies active in clean technologies.
The future Nieuw Zuid housing estate in Antwerp aims to become an innovative site that excels in sustainability and pushes the boundaries of living, working and relaxing in the city. The heat network installed by EQUANS will supply approximately 2,000 homes.
Technology with many advantages
Connecting to a heat network has many advantages: user comfort and safety, system reliability, ease of operation, competitiveness and cost stability. Heat networks will need to be strongly developed in urban areas over the next few years, combining them as much as possible with renewable and recoverable energies; thus enabling cities and communities to take a further step towards energy transition.
