In het huidige geopolitieke tijdsgewricht moet Europa streven naar strategische autonomie, onder meer voor grondstoffen, en daarom inzetten op circulariteit. Het Lectorenplatform Sustainable Smart Industry wil daaraan bijdragen met onderzoek naar verduurzaming van de maakindustrie. Projecten gaan over …

A summary of requirements for (waste-)wood to be used in CLT, completed with explanation of how to inspect these required properties and recognize wood defects.

Demonstration project with the Robot Lab wall panel, made from residual wood It is the true eye-catcher of the restaurant at Bowling Leeuwarden: the wall with the wooden panels. The panels were designed at the Robot Lab of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and are entirely made from …

Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose and/or remanufacture. Municipalities, social …

Repurpose is becoming more popular as a circularity strategy. This circularity strategy is specifically promising in the case of furniture. One of the challenges of upscaling repurpose is the negative consumer perception of repurposed products. Studies up to date pertain to consumer perception of refurbished …

Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling, opening up opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI framework …

Construction industry and interior architecture are increasingly using wood, driving up demand and depleting wood resources. Yet large quantities of uncontaminated, high-quality material end up burned or downcycled into chipboard, because it is too costly to manually sort and process large volumes of …

Urban areas provide a promising context for upcycling due to the concentration of consumers and existence of bulky waste resources. Hence, upcycling initiatives emerge across European cities, but little is known about their manifestations. Building on interviews with twenty-four stakeholders from the …

The transition to a circular economy presents significant challenges for high-tech manufacturing, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which often face resource constraints. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) have emerged as pivotal tools for enhancing transparency, traceability, …

This paper investigates smart charging strategies for battery-electric construction machinery (non-road mobile machinery, NRMM) through a case study of a large-scale housing project in The Hague, Netherlands. The study develops a methodology to estimate energy demands and simulate charging profiles during …