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Europe: looking for a climate proof housing location

22 februari 2023admin
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Of course, it makes some sense, improving our house with some insulation, a heat pump and so on (or not, I’ll come back to that soon!) , but if you could choose where to live or build, or move, where… Continue Reading →

building, climateneutral, Europe, future, lifestyle, post-fossil

Where to build, and where not to build (in NL)

8 januari 2023admin
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I was asked that question last year by Thomas van Belzen of Cobouw,[1] and it got me thinking. It was an interview in Dutch, but let me return to it in English and in more detail at the beginning of… Continue Reading →

building, future, landuse, policies

Not a CO2 focus, but a Post-Fossil focus

13 november 2022admin
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The Quest in Egypt is actually quite simple: Not look for reductions of fossil, but how to live off the sun, and its derivatives, wind and water power. And where possible make things a little more effective with a little… Continue Reading →

climateneutral, CO2, fossil, future, IPCC, policies, politics, post-fossil, solar energy

Forget tech-optimism…

17 september 2022admin
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The article series begins on a Saturday , with the front page of the economics section of the NRC national newspaper featuring the ticker: “believe in growth or shrinkage.” With that, I was immediately on the fence. Because it’s not… Continue Reading →

behaviour, capital, climate, future, interview, lifestyle, newspaper, policies, society, technology

A ‘ New Bauhaus’ ? Or Solar Decathlon ?

6 juni 2022admin
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During my time as a professor I was regularly at odds with the Academy of Architecture’. I feel affiliated with ‘the art of building’, but not with architecture or construction as art. That was more or less the reason for… Continue Reading →

architects, architecture, climateneutral, design, future, policies, transition

MNB1: 0-CO2 per 2030, MNB2: max 550 kg/m2

23 mei 2022admin
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Last week, two interesting reports were published analysing how regulations can better support ‘sustainable’ material use. Very esteemed colleagues, united in a Dutch ‘Gideons tribe’ to make the buildings sector move faster, have been working on this. [1] I can… Continue Reading →

biobased, building, circular, climateneutral, CO2, embodied energy, future, housing stock, indicator, tools

Continue partying, or (CO2) lockdown ?

14 april 2022admin
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There are actually only two options (‘scenario’s’): Either we go into CO2 lockdown, or we party on until the whole thing collapses…. The latest IPCC report makes that perfectly clear again. What we are doing now is a case of… Continue Reading →

behaviour, climate, CO2, consuming, economy, future, IPCC, lifestyle, news, policies, society, transition

The Bionological House

7 maart 2022admin
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With vegetables, we’ve been doing it for years: most current vegetables never existed, in an autonomous evolutionary process. We as humans have slowly transformed them so that they grow the way we appreciate them, and want them on our plates.… Continue Reading →

agriculture, architecture, biobased, bionology, building, Embodied Land, future, housing stock, land, landuse, materials, prefab, technology

Carbon storage: the land-time relation 2/2

20 februari 2022admin
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There are many ways you can start “accounting” for CO2 (as comments on the previous article also showed), but at the end of the day what matters are absolute CO2 emissions, from whatever activity. And cutting down a tree and… Continue Reading →

agriculture, assessment, biobased, climate, CO2, Embodied Land, forests, future, housing stock, land, landuse, materials, resources

Carbon storage in wood-timber 1/2

14 februari 2022admin
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Storage (binding) of CO2 in wood/timber is a hot issue at the moment*. But how should that be calculated really? Before I go into more detail, a few preliminary remarks: (the part on ‘calculating’ has been later added, and ‘CO2’… Continue Reading →

assessment, biobased, biomass, building, CO2, forests, future, land, materials, system boundaries

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Form Follows Fysics - reinventing the built environment (2021)
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