Green, greener, greenest

With technology, we have the key to making the world a greener place: energy, environment and water are the issues of the future. And technology presents the solution. For this reason, Imtech possesses extensive know-how across a broad front: energy saving, energy contracting, innovative air and climate technology, emissions limitations, ‘green’ lighting and ensuring clean wastewater. In 2007, 22% of our total activities (760 million euro) were in the ‘energy & environment’ market. In 2008, that was 25% (960 million euro), and the number continues to rise.

Moreover, not only our core activities contribute to a cleaner world, we also look at our own internal processes and our own policy regarding Corporate Social Sustainability (CSR). We sign contracts for green power and a green vehicle fleet and make agreements with our suppliers about the measurement of the carbon footprint in our ‘Code of Supply.’ In Eindhoven, the Netherlands, we are also building a model office building, for our own use, according to cradle-to-cradle principles. This building will deliver energy back to the grid. We altruistically help local communities in developing countries with solving technological problems in the field of energy and environment, the creation of a sustainable living environment and improvement of their welfare and prosperity. We also initiated Green Office 2015®, an integral, multiple development, in which energy, environment, water, urban planning, landscape, architecture, interior and technology come together; an integral concept with the highest BREEAM, LEED and GreenCalc scores. Finally, we participate in the ICOS Cleantech Fund I. This fund invests in innovative enterprises starting up in the field of clean technology (energy, water or environment) and ensures that we are involved at an early stage with new high-tech frontrunners for sustainable technology. These are the ways that we translate our ambition to become the greenest technical services provider in Europe. 

A few examples
some examples of ‘green’ Imtech projects are:

  • The green ‘revitalisation’ of buildings involving the replacement of the total technical infrastructure with energy-efficient and sustainable solutions, our most important reference is the green ‘revitalisation’ of the head office of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt in Germany;
  • For a period of fifteen years, and a total contract value of 400 million euro, Imtech will be an energy and energy contracting partner of the German National Security service, Caterpillar and Infineon;
  • The technology equipment in nine new biomass factories, bio diesel plants, bio-ethanol plants and innovative combined heat & power plants that are to be built, including the largest European bio diesel plant and the largest European bio-ethanol plant;
  • The Imtech Energy Efficiency Programme aimed at optimising the economic feasibility of energy-efficiency investments and reducing CO2 emissions through trading in emission certificates;
  • The technical infrastructure in a new, energy-efficient, coal-fired energy plant to be built in Hamm in Germany;
  • Energy optimisation in energy plants in Belgium, Germany, Sweden and Ireland, including the reduction of the environmentally-harmful emissions;
  • The technology in two high-tech biogas plants in the UK which generate over 2 MW of sustainable energy;
  • The technology for various sub-stations for wind turbines in Ireland – Imtech’s first project in the wind energy market;
  • The energy metering and issuing of energy labels for hundreds of buildings in the Netherlands;
  • Energy reduction through the installation of combined heat & power plants in a large number of hospitals, various governmental building and commercial buildings as well as through the renovation (including biomass) of dwellings in various London suburbs and in hundreds of dwellings in Sweden;
  • The provision of energy services to numerous companies and government institutions;
  • A high-tech fermentation plant that converts animal fat from which the fatty acids have been removed into biodiesel;
  • The total energy technology in a new, energy-generating incineration line at the HVC waste processing plant in Dordrecht, the Netherlands;
  • Extracting energy from the hot water present at great depths in old mine workings in Limburg, the Netherlands;
  • Fitting buildings with energy-generating solar panels in which photovoltaic cells convert sunlight directly into electricity;
  • Innovative ground ventilation that enables the thermal energy in layers deep under the earth’s surface to be used to heat buildings;
  • The implementation of scores of projects for public lighting using the 30% more efficient ‘Innolumis’ LED lighting;
  • Tens of high-tech converters for energy generation;
  • The upgrading of the energy provisions of numerous energy companies;
  • Energy-efficient and sustainable technology for doubling the capacity of the largest refineries of Cepsa and Repsol-YPF in Spain;
  • Various ‘green ICT projects’ (energy-efficient ICT infrastructure);
  • Imtech was involved in the sustainable exploration for oil and gas, for example by replacing the control systems and software in compressor stations, the control, software and piping for oil pipelines, measuring the output of oil and gas producing locations, the technical infrastructure onboard cargo ships and the automation and the implementation of fire extinguisher systems on oil and gas platforms.