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The Week: PEFCR, ETS, INBAR, DDW, MVRDV, CO2

1 november 2017admin

Last week, was a week with some Aha moments, and forced to rethink a few issues. Among these a continued discussion in The Netherlands with Jan Willem van de Groep, the passionate protagonist of Nill Onthe Meter retrofits (NOM). Nothing… Continue Reading →

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Buildings construction from modified bamboo

27 november 2015admin

november 2015 Bamboo is a resource hardly known in the industrialized world, that can help sustain our use of materials: its biobased and has a larger yield per functional service as for instance wood. Besides, many developing countries have large… Continue Reading →

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chair and organiser 1 st World conference Sustainable Building (SB2000, Maastricht)
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