New website lauched for our low carbon business park project, The Core, in Aberdeen: thecoreaberdeen.com/Gallery_slide_…

François Maréchal is talking about system integration and environment, economy and society values

By analysing the whole system, the inefficiency in the process, e.g. beer making, can be established #industrial economy #smartsystems

CO2 savings of 84% can be achieved, with payback in 5 years by reconfiguring system. More savings possible with new processes included

Energy system of a household could be reduced by 50% by a smart system and smart processes working together for more efficiency

Donald Desmet discusses business clustering and the use of residual heat studies. A global view is needed as lots of different actors

ACE helped facilitate a potential partnership but the businesses need to act and barriers present such as legal

Pauline Nackaerts talks of the concrete applications, mutual approach and substitutions that can be made across a business cluster

ACE has enabled Ecopal to include energy systems and efficiencies within their offerings to businesses

Now the afternoon session and Stef Kranendijk talks about the circular economy and cradle to cradle and how this can promote innovation

ACE delegates networking at lunch Emily Bates incubator

Tour of the Green Bridge science park by ACE delegates powerlink Ghent University Research

$630bn/year savings to EU businesses for going to circular economy DessoGroup Ellen MacArthur foundation #circulareconomy #EUGreenWeek

Aad van Orden of Apeldoorn, NL talks of a sustainable business park and how a business park can be sustained beyond 10, 15 yrs cycle

Examples of sustainable conditions used to incentive businesses by offering financial discount on charges. Conditions like energy sharing

Park management is important but to sustain interaction on the park over the long term a cooperative approach was put in place

Stijn De Roo is talking about spatial and urban planning on business parks and for feasibility of heat networks to make financial sense

Johan Proot WVI talks about the importance of ACE to understanding how energy can be incorporated into the planning phase and strategies

Ger Klaassen EU Climate Action is talking about the eu targets and innovations and bottom up approach by MS #lowcarbon #eugreenweek

Jonas Timmerman Ghent University Research is now launching the ACE #lowcarbon business park manual a cross border collaboration #eugreenweek #energy