Following the signature of the Paris Climate Agreement, governments developed policy to limit the anticipated warming of the climate. For the construction industry, this mostly involves economic use of raw materials and reducing power consumption in the production and use of buildings. In order to achieve …

The impact of the construction industry on the natural environment is severe, natural areas are changedinto predominantly hard solid surfaces, the energy use in the built environment is high and the industryputs huge claims on materials.

This is a serious game called Re-Organise. It is a cooperative board game about creating closed loops in the circular economy. The game represents an agro-industrial park in which different types of companies aim to use each other's waste streams as a material and/or energy resource. To do so, the players …

circular economy as a system change is gaining more attention, reusing materials and products is part of this, but an effective method for repurposing seems to be missing. Repurpose is a strategy which uses a discarded product or its parts in a new product with a different function. Literature on specific …

The Dutch government and leading academics in the field of circular economy propose that “repurposing”, i.e., finding new usages for discarded material, is important to reduce resource usage. Waste collectors, municipalities and start-ups increasingly find ways to develop circular business models, aiming …

In 2050 moet de Nederlandse economie volledig circulair zijn: alles wat we willen maken, behalve voedsel, wordt dan vervaardigd van bestaande grondstoffen of onderdelen en hergebruikte materialen. In 2030 moeten we halverwege zijn, maar ook dat gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet lukken.

Op 18 december 2020 werd er weer een (online) ClimateCafé georganiseerd. Deze keer met als onderwerp ' Hoe maak je plastic circulair?' met presentaties van Ramon Knoester en Floris Boogaard.

Recent economic crises, environmental problems and social challenges have urged us to drastically change our consumption and production patterns and transform organisations to contribute to socio-technical transitions that positively impact these challenges. Therefore, sustainable development and the …

Een circulair bedrijfsmodel vraagt veelal om een andere financieringsconstructie. Zo hebben producten die worden hergebruikt of op hoogwaardige wijze worden gerecycled altijd een financiële restwaarde. Deze dient inzichtelijk te zijn en afgestemd te worden met de verschillende ketenpartners en met financiers. …

Inaugural speech of Peter van Assche, professor Architecture & Circular Thinking, deliverd on 12 December 2019. The Architecture & Circular Thinking research group wants to work towards the Arcadian Anthropocene. That is to say that it wants to formulate answers to social questions by using circular …