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There is no ‘end of life’ of a building…

24 oktober 2021admin
Two Demolition cranes demolishing old row of houses in the Netherlands

Life has an end, but is there also an ‘end of life’, for products and buildings? Which is frequently used in science, like in building evaluations calculating with a maximum life span, but seems weird. It is understandable in trade,… Continue Reading →

assessment, building, eol, housing stock, materials, recycling, resources, system boundaries, tools

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

How to win a discussion on materials

4 mei 2019admin
dscn6485

Many colleagues in the field feel frustrated when trying to improve the materials performance of buildings: the lobbying and framing of materials is huge, blurring a real discussion on what materials with best performance and lowest impact should be applied.… Continue Reading →

biobased, embodied energy, materials, recycling, resources

‘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

Circular part 2: resource racism

9 juli 2017admin
resource-racism

(below is a improved English text compared to the first one published. Thanks to (editing by) Simon McGuinness..!) The circular economy, is about closing production cycles, is it not? So, it is about restoring the original stock. Otherwise the resource… Continue Reading →

assessment, biobased, circular, Embodied Land, materials, recycling, resources, tools

Circular in circular economy is missing… its about linear slow-down.

1 juli 2017admin
kringloopwinkel-helmond-stichting-jpg

Circular is “hot”. But the interpretation of ‘circular’ is crippled. As I can conclude after reading some recent reports on the topic. For sure when its coupled to economy, its more about business as about closing cycles or circularity. And… Continue Reading →

blog, circular, economy, materials, recycling, resources

Recycling : where have the impacts gone…?

27 november 2015admin

october 2015 (2, see for part 1: http://www.ronaldrovers.com/?p=31) Part II: current recycling  Have you ever thought about recycling? And how the impacts from first time used seem to be disappeared when re-used now? This is the great mystery of circular… Continue Reading →

lca, materials, recycling

Recycling : Shifting the problem to the future…?

27 november 2015admin

october 2015 (1/2  see part 2: http://www.ronaldrovers.com/?p=34  ) PART I: recycling in the future.  What about claims about  recycling in future? Shifting the problem to your children, and claiming a profit now? Recycling seems a good idea. And it is. However, its… Continue Reading →

lca, materials, recycling

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Form Follows Fysics - reinventing the built environment (2021)
People vs Resources - restoring a world out of balance (2019)
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