Employees of CDC publish in several magazines. On this page you find English summaries of selected publications. At ../dutch/publicatie.htm are more publications available in Dutch.

Energy Performance Coefficient of office buildings related to the measured energy consumption (summary) (PDF)



To legitimate the Energy Performance Regulations it needs to be proved that a lower EPC leads to a lower actual energy consumption. This report deals with the relation between the calculated Energy Performance Coefficient (EPC) and the measured energy consumption.

Utilisation of daylight in offices; monitoring in a sample of ten buildings (summary) (PDF)



The sun contributes in a significant amount to the reduction of the electricity consumption for artificial lighting but no data are available on the daylight utilisation on a national level in the Netherlands.

"Rekenen met Wind (Computation of windflow)"

In cooperation with Henk Krüs and Rick Ruijsink of Cyclone Fluid Dynamics, Tom Haartsen wrote an article about pro's and contra's of CFD calculations of windnuisance, wind pressures and particle distribution, compared to measurements in a windtunnel. The article has illustrations of the first CFD-calculations applied in daily consulting practice (1995/1996 !). You can reed "Rekenen met Wind" (in Dutch) here. The article has been published also in Bouw.