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Wooden highrises

Higher is not by definition better (think of steeling solar power from the neighbours, or increased weight per m2 floor ) but wooden towers becoming higher and higher surely proofs that there is no reason not to build with renewable material . Embodied energy is far lower as for other construction materials. The wooden tower…
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MAXergy: Closing Cycles Calculation tool.

For some years I have been working on a assessment tool, which overcomes some disadvantages of current tools. Like (avoiding) the use of weighing factors, and the absence of depletion of resources. Exergy research has been the driver behind this, and the methodology works under the name of MAXergy: maximising energy and materials exergy within…
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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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