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0-impact built environment

Wooden highrises

Higher is not by definition better (think of steeling solar power from the neighbours, or increased weight per m2 floor ) but wooden towers becoming higher and higher surely proofs that there is no reason not to build with renewable material . Embodied energy is far lower as for other construction materials. The wooden tower…
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” nillonthemeter” (NOM) retrofit meeting

Today, we organised the first NOM-day for social housing corporations in the province of Limburg: NOM stands for Nulopdemeter, or ‘ Nillonthemeter’ retrofits of houses. In fact a 0-energy make over with prefab panels in just a few days. This is a NL wide movement under the name of “ Stroomversnelling” , or also known…
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With Bamboo best chances for sust. Building

Today I was part of the committee questioning Edwin Zea Escamilla, who defended his doctoral thesis at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, with prof. Guillaume Habert. The topic was to develop a simplified LCA approach, for construction materials and buildings. But for use outside the EU context: and outside EU, lack of data and geographical information…
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Toilet (r)evolution ahead

. Following the previous post, here is a example of a different approach: . We are trying to improve on everything, as for instance drinking water use in sanitation. New technologies are developed, but the problem solving is in most cases single issue oriented: the water use is reduced, but other resource use in increased,…
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