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Corona, the built environment, & The Species vs the Individual

19 april 2021admin
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The Species vs the Individual, in the Built Environment? The Corona lockdown and approach continues to surprise: both in what the government does and how people deal with it. What is particularly striking in this phase of Corona is the… Continue Reading →

behaviour, blog, commons, housing stock, lifestyle, policies, politics, population, society

How to distribute the remaining Carbon budget ?

10 oktober 2020admin
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A few years ago, together with colleagues Guillaume Habert from Switzerland and Thomas Lützkendorf from Germany, I started exploring the CO2 budget that was still available, and the consequences for construction. This budget of maximum remaining CO2 emissions to stay… Continue Reading →

building, CO2, housing stock, policies, politics, population, society

Avoiding CO2 lock-down: learning from corona

31 maart 2020admin
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(this text was send as an open letter to the installations industry , media and policymakers, on 26 March 2020) What is happening around the corona virus today, is understandable and needed, health is paramount. Let that be clear. But… Continue Reading →

climate, CO2, housing stock, news, policies, politics, retrofit, society, transition

Retrofitting houses: from object approach to a source approach 2/2

9 februari 2020admin
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In the Netherlands most houses are heated by natural gas, but now we want to phase out that gas heating. Which of course is in principle easy: just close the tap, which is in the gas-fields in the North of… Continue Reading →

0-energy, climate, CO2, exergy, housing stock, policies, retrofit, transition

Retrofitting houses: Stock focus needed, not a housing focus. 1/2

27 januari 2020admin
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The Co2 emissions of our housing stock needs to brought to 0. And in the Netherlands we have the target to become natural gas free as well , and even sooner. Plans how to act are launched one after the… Continue Reading →

0-energy, CO2, housing stock, policies, retrofit

Urban heat islands, a growing problem

4 december 2019admin
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Urban heating, or at least the increase thereof, has been in the spotlight for some time. And the basic effects were known to me. But after hearing a lecture by Math Santamouris during a recent Conference, a whole new world… Continue Reading →

architecture, building, climate, CO2, housing stock, materials, smartcities, solar energy, urban

New construction must comply with regulations 2050!

4 oktober 2019admin
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Why didn’t we realize this before… Since a year or two there has been a working group of a number of collaborating researchers in Europe, under the wings of an international NGO (iiSBE) who are investigating what the ‘carbon budget’… Continue Reading →

0-energy, biobased, building, CO2, embodied energy, future, housing stock, materials, retrofit, transition

m2 living per capita in Europe, and consequences

24 februari 2019admin
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It sometimes seems that the built environment, and the adjustments to achieve a sustainable society, are of the same nature everywhere. But that is by no means the case when we zoom out, to Europe for example. There should be… Continue Reading →

building, climate, energy, housing stock, retrofit, solar energy, urban

Not a 1 house-retrofit focus, but a stock focus: hybrid solution

15 oktober 2017admin
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Since quit a few years I am involved in mass retrofit projects for 0-energy performance, mainly with prefab panel based solutions. In the Netherlands, but also in Europe, recently among others within the EU H2020 project More-Connect, in which 5… Continue Reading →

0-energy, assessment, building, CO2, embodied energy, future, housing stock, society

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Form Follows Fysics - reinventing the built environment
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