Why choose a ground bounded heat pump?
Water-water heat pumps (aka Brine or ground bounded) are very comfortable, provide unparalleled energy efficiency and are ideal for stable, eco-friendly heating.

Comfort
Always a stable climate in your house

Efficiency

Aesthetics
No visible external installations
Differences with other heating solutions
The overview below shows the main pro’s and con’s of the most used heating methods when transforming from gas heating. Currently the main blocking points of water -water heat pumps are affordability (due to high investment costs) and factual ability to reach a certain location. With the GEHECO method these disadvantages are removed, allowing people to profit from the advantages of a water-water heat pump.
Differences in drilling solutions
Instead of creating a deep well of 120-200 meters, GEHECO installs on average 3-6 smaller wells (loops) with a maximum depth of 50 meters. In terms of efficiency or thermal capacity, the depth of the borehole doesn’t matter as much; what’s more important is having enough flow (meters of pipe in the ground).
Benefits of shallow drilling
Shallow drilling offers several advantages: much less force is required, which allows for compacter installation machines This makes installation possible in hard-to-reach back yards. And in the future, GEHECO even aims to be able to install from within the home. Additionally, much less flushing water is needed, which means less material and less mess.
Benefits of a compact system
Because our method is much more compact and simpler, the costs will be significantly lower compared to traditional wells as we have much less capital investment and instead of three trucks, we only need one van to transport all the needed equipment.
How it Works
Using innovative technology, our compact well placement system drastically reduces cost and enables installation in (tight) urban spaces.
GEHECO only places small closed well systems. Our system is agnostic, this means that all types and brands of ground bounded heat pumps can be connected. The main differentiation of our technology compared to the currently used method, is that we use the (standard) PE pipe (40 mm) not only as the well, but also as the pushrod during placement.
So instead of drilling a hole with a drill rig, placing the PE pipe and filling the hole again with bentonite, we bring the PE pipe down directly. After reaching the desired depth, we retrieve the drill head, close-off the PE pipe and place a concentric inner pipe. The GEHECO method (with a patent pending) allows us to bring much smaller sized equipment, therefore increasing the number of locations where we can place and sharply reducing the cost. The consequence is that we cannot drill as deep as the current methods, however we overcome this by placing multiple (shorter) PE pipes and connecting them.

Current and future projects
The next step is a technical test program at The green Village.
Prototype Tests (Q2 2025)
Conducting placement and performance tests at The Green Village.
Future Plans
In Q2 2025 we plan to place a first prototype at the Green Village, the main goal of this project is to show the placement methodology to our main stake holders and do a first prove of concept of the actual performance of the well, by measuring the amount of heat collected. Our well will be connected to a heat pump. Main partners in this project are: The Green Village, Giesbers Installaties and Itho Daalderop.
Later in 2025, we plan to run another test at the Green Village, where we show the performance of a larger system (multiple connected wells) and over a longer duration of time.
Following these test, we will start with the first client placements, our fan base will be the first ones to profit from our solution. Our Fans are private individuals that are personally interested and/or working in the heat transformation field, their interest and curiosity are gladly used to gain more data on our systems performance and allows us to gain experience in optimizing the placement process. We plan to execute these tests together with our partner Itho Daalderop.