Nancy Westerlaken MSc
- Building Physics & Systems
- Sustainability
- Building Performance Modelling
- Product And Concept Development
Building Physics & Systems
The building and construction industry is full of innovative ideas. TNO helps companies (building and construction companies, suppliers, architects) to make this tangible by sharing knowledge and providing advice. At the same time, we are committed to making the built environment more sustainable by creating comfortable, healthy and energy-neutral buildings for both new and existing buildings.
To this end, we focus primarily on energy and material use, reducing the costs of the life cycle of existing buildings through innovative products and the sustainable use of materials. Our forecasting models optimise the maintenance of existing buildings and improve the performance of new buildings.
To live safely and damage-free in Groningen within five years by developing and validating models and design rules for earthquake resilience.
Healthcare assets (fire) safe and reliable: TNO models boost the quality of maintenance at lower costs. TNO offers calculation programs, model development and advice on the quality and maintenance of buildings aimed at care asset owners and housing corporations, cultural heritage and Building Innovation Modelling (BIM).
- Product innovation with a view to sustainability.
Sustainable alternatives to renovation by focusing on renovation and product innovation. - Building a safe and efficient care assets.
Choices made when designing and furnishing a building whose purpose is to provide care have major and long-term consequences. Consequences that manifest themselves in the areas of safety, finance, patient and employee satisfaction, and the possibility to provide the most efficient care possible. TNO can help you with these choices. Read more about this on the Care Assets page.
Harvest the fruits of our knowledge
TNO has a programme especially for SMEs in which we share our specialist knowledge with companies in the building and construction and greenhouse horticulture sectors. This gives you easy access to knowledge that is valuable to you. Read more about this on our SME page.
Contact us and we can discuss how our expertise can help your business move forward.
News
Minimising COVID-19 contamination in hospitals
02 July 2020
Due to the large number of patients infected with the coronavirus, healthcare facilities around the world are turning existing rooms into emergency hospitals. Because of the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2...
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How can we ensure facemask efficacy and availability?
01 July 2020
Dozens of healthcare organisations have asked TNO the same questions: ‘How can caregivers remain well protected as they come into contact with coronavirus patients? And is there a way to prevent a shortage...
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Boosting affordable housing with cementless blocks
16 January 2020
The market demand for construction materials is tremendous in developing countries due to a growing population. To tackle the disadvantages of hollow concrete blocks and burnt bricks Oskam , LEVS and...
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Expertise groups
- Artificial Intelligence
- Defence, Safety & Security
- Roadmaps
- Operations & Human Factors
- Climate Chambers for Research into Human Performance
- Desdemona: the next generation in movement simulation
- LT Lab: the TNO learning technology laboratory
- Performance and health monitoring
- Motion sickness and performance
- The neurobiology of Stress
- NetForce Command: an alternative to hierarchical command and control
- Operational military performance in a virtual world
- SUPRA
- Simulation Live Virtual and Constructive
- Concept Development & Experimentation
- IAMD: Integrated Air & Missile Defence
- JROADS
- FACSIM
- Helicopter studies
- Replacement of the F-16
- MARVEL / Comprehensive Approach
- TNO ACE: Advanced CD&E Environment
- Integrated approach to Dutch Royal Navy patrol ships
- Operational analysis during military operations
- SketchaWorld: from sketch to virtual world
- Information & Sensor Systems
- Digital Resilience of The Netherlands
- LFAS - Low Frequency Active Sonar
- Tanker Remote Vision System
- Platform signatures
- TNO shapes the future of MMICs and RFICs
- CARPET: Computer-Aided Radar Performance Evaluation Tool
- Underwater Warfare and Security
- Wide Area Motion Imagery WAMI
- SAKAMATA: sonar and marine mammals
- PARANOID: rapid information processing
- Mine analysis and threat evaluation
- Ship acoustics and underwater acoustic signatures
- PERSEUS Wind Turbine Radar Interference Assessment tool
- Electromagnetic security
- National Security
- A new vision on modernizing the emergency reporting process
- Social media in the security sector
- Automatic Video Compilation and Analysis System (AVACS)
- The Dutch Cyber Cube Method: Improving Human Capital for SOCs and CSIRTs
- Security Mission Information & Innovation Group (SMI2G)
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Concealed weapon detection
- FP7 Project IMPACT Europe
- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) policies in Europe
- @MIGO: border control
- Smarter Surveillance, man, machine, synergy
- Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems
- Protection, Munitions & Weapons
- Weapons systems control and analysis
- Weapon Effects & Protection Center
- Firepower
- Protection and survivability of vehicles
- Naval protection and survivability
- Infrastructure protection and survivability
- World-class ballistics research
- Countering Explosive Threats
- Materials for protection concepts
- Processing of Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics
- Ammunition Safety
- Ballistic Performance and Personal Protection
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection
- Expertise groups
- Intelligent Imaging
- Intelligent Autonomous Systems.
- Acoustics and Sonar
- Weapon Systems
- Explosions, Ballistics and Protection
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection
- Energetic Materials
- Human Behaviour and Organisational Innovation
- Networked Organisations
- Training and Performance Innovations
- Perceptual & Cognitive Systems
- Military Operations
- Modelling, Simulation and Gaming
- Electronic Defence
- Radar Technology
- Energy Transition
- Roadmaps
- Towards ubiquitous Solar Energy
- Global leader with innovative solar panels
- From successful tests to real thin Film products
- Smart integration of solar energy into our environment
- Mass customisation facility for new generation solar PV
- Trial with solar panels on noise barriers along railway tracks
- Unique research floating solar panels
- SolaRoad
- Solar Highways
- Solar Powered Transportation
- National Consortium Solar in Landscape
- Higher yield and better integration in landscape with bifacial solar panels
- Optimal deployment of the infrastructure for generating solar energy
- Optimal energy generation with aesthetic solar panels
- First solar-powered passenger car: solar cells in the bodywork
- Solar electricity generation in public road infrastructure
- SolarBEAT outdoor test facility for BIPV(T)
- Solar panels on farmland
- Research innovative solar parks
- Solar panels in facades
- Solar cells on crash barriers
- Towards large-scale generation of wind energy
- Support structure just as important as the wind turbine itself
- Wind turbines, fully in motion
- Innovation towards 10-20 MW offshore wind turbines
- How to model 10MW+ turbines aerodynamically?
- Design for Reliable Power Performance (D4REL)
- Reduce costs and improve output through optimised tip design wind blades
- VortexLoads: Vortex-wake models in wind turbine design
- Modelling improvement wind turbine blades
- RealCoE: Converters for Clean, Low Cost and Competitive Electricity
- Haliade X: largest wind turbine ever
- Less production per wind turbine, still higher yield
- Logistics innovative strength at home and abroad
- Leader in wind turbine management and maintenance
- Wind farms in synergy with the environment
- Innovative methods for wind measurements
- Towards broad support for the energy transition
- Towards an energy-producing environment
- Towards CO2 neutral fuels and feedstock
- Biomass to fuels and feedstock
- ARBAHEAT - Sustainable future for coal-fired power stations possible through conversion to biomass
- AMBITION Advanced biofuel production from lignin rich residues
- BECOOL EU Brazilian cooperation on advanced biofuels
- Horti-BlueC - a new EU cooperation on reducing Bio-waste and CO2-footprint in horticulture
- UNRAVEL - valorization of lignocellulosic biomass
- MacroFuels advanced biofuels from seaweed
- BRISK2 Biofuel Research Infrastructure for Sharing Knowledge
- New facility for seaweed processing
- TORWASH technology successfully tested on pilot scale
- Traditional fuels and raw materials
- Hydrogen for a sustainable energy supply
- Optimising production hydrogen
- Hydrogen storage and transport
- Hydrogen, fuel and feedstock
- H-vision: blue hydrogen to accelerate carbon-low industry
- Ten things you need to know about hydrogen
- World first: an offshore pilot plant for green hydrogen
- New research centre for hydrogen production
- Identifying the future international chain of green hydrogen
- Oppertunities for green hydrogen for the manufacturing industry investigated
- Biofuels lab: Making transport more sustainable with biofuels
- Towards CO2 neutral industry
- Making industrial heat management more sutainable
- Using energy and raw materials efficiently in industry
- Electrification needed for CO2-neutral industry
- Reducing CO2 emissions through capture, use and storage
- 4 pioneering routes to a CO2 neutral industry
- Mollier facility: innovating in industrial drying technology
- Research facility Industrial Electrification accelerates greening of Rotterdam port
- Research facility for negative CO2 emissions
- Towards a reliable, affordable and fair energy system
- Sector coupling: the engine of a CO2-free society
- Energy Conversion and Storage
- Future-proof energy grids
- Future-proof energy markets
- A fair system without energy poverty
- Energy storage platform: working on energy storage after 2030
- Scenarios for a climate-neutral energy system
- Robustness and flexibility of the energy system
- Energy Transport Infrastructure
- Geological Survey of the Netherlands
- Geological Survey of the Netherlands
- 100 years of geological mapping
- GeoTOP
- Sand, gravel and clay extraction
- GIS and other tools for interactive planning
- DINO, Data and Information of the Dutch Subsurface
- BRO: the Dutch Key Register of the Subsurface
- Sustainable use and management Flemish-Dutch subsurface
- Petroleum Geological Atlas of the Southern Permian Basin
- 3D Subsurface mapping of the Dutch offshore
- Geological Survey of the Netherlands across borders
- Expertise
- Industry
- Roadmaps
- Flexible & Free-form Products
- Space & Scientific Instrumentation
- Semiconductor Equipment
- Sustainable Chemical Industry
- Expertise groups
- Buildings, Infrastructure & Maritime
- Roadmaps
- Buildings & Infrastructure
- Infrastructure
- Sustainable buildings: towards an energy-producing built environment
- Building innovation
- Greenhouse design
- Digitisation in construction
- Maritime & Offshore
- Expertise groups
- Circular Economy & Environment
- Healthy Living
- Roadmaps
- Health Technology & Digital Health
- Biomedical Health
- Work
- Healthy, safe and productive working
- Safe working
- Sustainable employability vitality
- Future of work
- Cleaner production for textile industry in Bangladesh
- Asbestos innovations and research
- Exposure assessment and management of asbestos fibres
- Innovation and detecting asbestos in air, soil and water
- Technological innovations for applications in the asbestos industry
- Innovative and inclusive regional development
- Applied exposome programme: connecting the dots for effective prevention of disease
- Labour market mismatch demands matching based on skills
- Youth
- Expertise groups
- Traffic & Transport
- Roadmaps
- SMART and Safe Traffic and Transport
- Societal impact for accessibility and liveability
- Decision-making information based on facts for municipalities
- Making disruptive technologies practicable
- Accessible, healthy and vibrant cities
- CITYkeys – Performance evaluation framework for smart cities and projects
- Big data ecosystems: collaborating on data-controlled cities
- Knowledge mediator puts an end to bickering
- Intact – Climate resilient critical infrastructure
- Organising mobility
- Smart mobility and logistics
- Smart vehicles
- Sustainable Traffic and Transport
- Sustainable Mobility and Logistics
- Improving air quality by monitoring real-world emissions
- Emission factors for road traffic
- Measuring the emissions of powered two wheelers
- Emissions of particulate matter from diesel cars
- Random Cycle Generator
- EnViVer: model traffic flow and emissions
- Measuring real-world emissions with TNO’s Smart Emissions Measurement System (SEMS)
- Measuring the emissions of trucks and buses
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Commercial Road Transport
- Measuring the emissions of non-road mobile machinery
- Emission measures in practice
- The transition to CO2-neutral mobility in 2050
- Sustainable Vehicles
- Innovative technologies for zero-emission vehicles
- CO2 reduction by high-efficiency Flex Fuel technology with extremely low emissions
- Actual energy consumption and emissions
- Hydrogen and the fuel cell
- Automotive Battery Research
- Making transport more sustainable by means of electric vehicles
- Energy Efficient Electric Bus E3Bus
- eCoMove
- Hydrogen for internal combustion engines in heavy equipment
- Expertise groups
- Information & Communication Technology
- Strategic Analysis & Policy
- Tech Transfer
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- Building Performance Modelling
- Product And Concept Development
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