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Article on recycling published

Just published: (in Dutch) article on the impact of recycling, often negelected. In : tijdschrift “Milieu” nr 8 december 2015 see http://vvm.info/ A english language version of the article can be found here, in 2 parts: http://ronaldrovers.nl/?p=31 

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With Bamboo best chances for sust. Building

Today I was part of the committee questioning Edwin Zea Escamilla, who defended his doctoral thesis at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, with prof. Guillaume Habert. The topic was to develop a simplified LCA approach, for construction materials and buildings. But for use outside the EU context: and outside EU, lack of data and geographical information…
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Blogs moved to blog website

the blogs published here so far have been moved to a separate website,  to have a separate platform for views and opinions. This website will focus on developing insights into environmental issues, closing cycles research, related tot built environments. The new Blog page can be found here: ronaldrovers.com

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COP21 survey for Sustainable Built environments

iiSBE , the international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment, has developed a survey to solicit views from our key members and contacts on the possible measures to reduce the impact of the built environment on climate change. Its contributed in several ways to the COP21 meetings in Paris. iiSBE is the only independent organization…
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blog: after the climate conference…

New blog : In two weeks , in Paris , there is COP21, the Climate-conference. (this has been published as a column  in Dutch in the buildings sector newspaper Cobouw, see the Dutch version here.)  English version here  

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