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Recycle question: aluminium can or glass bottle?

15 december 2019admin
festival-afval-waste

What is better , a friend active in the beverage world asked, recycling aluminium cans or recycling glass bottles? Neither, I immediately replied: always reuse, and never use aluminum. As the Dutch national environmental center reports: a deposit beer bottle… Continue Reading →

aluminium, embodied energy, materials, recycling

The world on fire (and BBQ)

14 juli 2019admin
bbq-hot-coal

The introduction to the Dutch version of my book was headed: the world on fire. ( after summer in English available!) “Well”, was often the reaction, “a bit exaggerated, isn’t it? Sounds like doomsday thinking right?” But it is not… Continue Reading →

aluminium, climate, CO2, future, news, politics, society, transition

The kg/m2 and kWh/m2 (and embodied energy) 2/2

10 mei 2018admin
table-high-rise-kg-m2-wide

It is remarkable that the kg/m2 approach for buildings , as described in the previous article, is nearly completely absent. That is, nowadays. More then 100 years ago it was regularly used a a criterion in architectural competitions, the lower… Continue Reading →

0-energy, aluminium, architecture, biobased, building, embodied energy, materials

‘Circular building’ , now what is it really ?

9 maart 2018admin
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(master-classes on this topic and others, see on the right) ” What is Circular Building really?” , a Dutch journalist twittered, being confused about the debates going on. Its not clear yet, apparently, so lets give it a try. The… Continue Reading →

aluminium, architects, architecture, biobased, building, circular, future, materials, recycling, resources

Buillding sector and CO2: avoid aluminium…

30 oktober 2016admin
asr

After Paris, no one can go round anymore: every sector will have to contribute to CO2 reduction, even the building and construction sector with regard to its material choices. And why not start immediately with the easiest solutions, the low-hanging… Continue Reading →

aluminium, biobased, building, CO2, embodied energy, resources

aluminium and earthquackes

27 november 2015admin

Why we will crash at some moment Travelling around the Netherlands I am amazed constantly by the materials choices made by project developers or architects. Last week I passed a recently (low energy)  refurbished office building (ASR in Utrecht, left)… Continue Reading →

aluminium, biobased

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Speaker, writer , thinker, co-Founder iiSBE , consultant, researcher : main focus: Zero impact built environments The Netherlands
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RONALD ROVERS:
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chair and organiser 1 st World conference Sustainable Building (SB2000, Maastricht)
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co-founder iiSBE, International NGO: int.initiative for Sustainable Built environment
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honorary member of the Chinese academy for Science and Technology, Wuxi, PRChina
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guest lecturing, in several Europen universities
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Book: Sustainable Housing, a conceptual approach , R.Rovers 2006 ISBN: 978-90-8594-020-3

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