Categorie: biobased
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 bamboo forests, and could use this resource. Which, of course,…
August 2015 This is the English translation of a opinion feature in a Dutch Newspaper. The Dutch version can be found here. . In the Netherlands we have a so called “top sector policy”, a selection of business sectors that the government supports, for several reasons but mainly for their…
Biobased = sustainable? (This blog is a translation of a blog in Dutch, published on the biobased platform website: go here for the Dutch version: part 1 and 2) ( May 2015) The question asked was : is Biobased equal to sustainability? The short answer is: No. A longer answer…
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) , and I see white , pre-formed façade elements. Most…
