Projects
Circular building solutions: a quantification of their environmental and financial impact Ghent University
The circular building strategy has been put forward as an important part of the solution to mitigate the huge environmental impact of the building sector. Despite this important role, the current practical implementation of the circular building strategy stays limited to a few pilot projects. The relevance and the principles of the circular building strategy have clearly been stated, yet due to the large uncertainties about actual reuse or ...
Porosity of Building Structures: tracing multilayered changes to converted buildings. University of Antwerp
Reviving the circular building industry. Looking into construction, demolition and reuse from the past to the future. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
demolition works still remains a niche activity today. However, the
salvage and reuse of materials was common practice until far into the
twentieth century. Therefore, this research aims to comprehend the
preconditions of a flourishing circular building industry, in order to
reveal opportunities and possibilities for the salvage of materials
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Cost-efficient strategies for building, transferring and maintenance of in factory spectroscopic sensors KU Leuven
The process of quality control for the inspection of products in industries requires methods that quantify the concentration of chemical constituents before products are distributed to consumers. Nowadays, industries are transforming these processes by adopting methods that are more efficient, waste fewer resources, and are non-destructive for the material that is inspected. Such methods rely on spectroscopy technology in which devices are ...
Paradigms 4.0- Building blocks for a high road digital transformation of industry Antwerp Management School
Designing circular high-performance condensation polymers from reuitilization of plastic waste and novel biobased building blocks (HiPerCoRe) Hasselt University
Heterostructures of superconducting 2D materials as building blocks for emerging quantum technologies University of Antwerp
Knowledge diversity building by inventors KU Leuven
Why do some inventors build up knowledge in a broad variety of technological areas, while others stick to their field of expertise? Recent research has shown the importance of inventors with diverse knowledge to (breakthrough) inventive performance. Given a general trend towards specialization, this finding raises concern about an under-supply of truly novel inventions and warrants policy intervention and managerial action to stimulate ...
Reuse potential of building materials derived from existing dwellings Ghent University
In recent years, environmental efforts in the building sector were mainly concentrated on reducing the operational energy while a well-considered use of materials is at least as important to further reduce our ecological footprint. The concept ‘Urban mining’ considers buildings as material banks, which can dismantled into valuable components and deliver materials to reuse in other building projects. This PhD aims to gain more insight in the ...