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bestek 6008: Solutions for bottlenecks detected within circular economy projects Hasselt University

Bernard VANHEUSDEN
Law, Centre for Government and Law
This study commissioned by the Flemish Public Waste Agency (OVAM) frames within the general objective of the Flemish government to strive for a circular economy. The goal of this study is the elaboration of solutions for legal bottlenecks detected within concrete circular economy projects. On the basis of concrete cases, the OVAM would like to have a better view on how in practice legal obstacles for circular projects could be tackled. For some ...

Circular Prototyping / Everyone can start using biomaterials Ghent University

Thomas Block, Jan Detand
Department of Political Sciences, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design

In the circular economy, both biological and technological material flows are considered fundamental. However, the focus of design and engineering courses is mainly on technical materials. Moreover, there is still a prominent emphasis on design and technical challenges, and social opportunities are often not considered or are underused.

With our project, we want to do three things:

  1. set up a first Bio-FabLab in an ...

Solutions to bottlenecks from circular experiments Hasselt University

Steven VAN GARSSE
Centre for Government and Law
The experiences from the experiments of the Call-projects and from the Green Deal Circular Construction are very relevant to accelerate the transition to a circular building economy. The learned lessons and insights could be widely used in the construction sector, but currently there is a lack of translation to more standardized guidelines, methodologies and calculation methods that transcend the experiment level. This research project therefore ...

Solutions to bottlenecks from circular experiments Hasselt University

Steven VAN GARSSE
Centre for Government and Law
The experiences from the experiments of the Call-projects and from the Green Deal Circular Construction are very relevant to accelerate the transition to a circular building economy. The learned lessons and insights could be widely used in the construction sector, but currently there is a lack of translation to more standardized guidelines, methodologies and calculation methods that transcend the experiment level. This research project therefore ...

Circular construction: the mobile unit Ghent University

Marijke Steeman
Department of Architecture and urban planning

Bouwunie, Hogeschool Odisee, VDAB and UGent join forces to develop a mobile unit within the open call circular economy of Circular Flanders. The mobile unit will be used to demonstrate circular floor, roof and facade constructions that can serve as an alternative to current practice. The focus is on durability, comfort, reuse and disassembly of the materials. The mobile unit will be used to go to contractors, architects and other building ...

CESGO! Hasselt University

Environmental Economics, Centre for Government and Law
The CESGO! project stands for "CESCOs GO!" and aims to prepare the playing field for CESCOs (Circular Economy Service COmpanies). Whereas today there are already many ESCOs (Energy Service COmpanies), there are only a limited number of CESCOs. Most of them are pilot projects, lacking the growth from 'Innovators' to 'Early Adaptors'. It is therefore socially valuable to develop business models for CESCO projects since these are aimed at closing ...

SizeZeroWaste Thomas More Mechelen - Antwerpen

Veerle Spaepen
Thomas More Mechelen - Antwerpen

The European Commission is laying the foundation for the transition to a circular economy with the European Green Deal and the linked Circular Economy Action Plan. The action plan formulates the ambition to make sustainable products, services and business models the norm and to avoid waste production as much as possible and identifies textiles as one of the important value chains for ...

CESCO XL Hasselt University

Centre for Government and Law
Taking into account the desired affordability, adaptability and sustainability of housing, we want to introduce a new circular housing concept, in which we focus on an innovative form of cooperation between key figures within the value chain of real estate: residents, designers, contractors, investors and building managers. We want to do this by means of a new business model: a Circular Economy Service Coalition (CESCo) is the central party that ...

CircuLab Limburg Hasselt University

Environmental Economics, ArcK
CirCa (Circular Campus) Limburg is a new multidisciplinary collaboration on the science park of Diepenbeek aiming to promote circular building. The collaboration will be based in a circular building, CircuLab. With the support of 'Vlaanderen Circulair', the design and construction of CircuLab will be supplemented with research on the tender procedure for circular building. Various tender procedures will be explored and validated, resulting in ...

OVAM Flanders circular Hasselt University

Centre for Government and Law
The way in which temporary classes are currently provided is an expensive and not very sustainable solution, we want to work out an alternative for this. To do this, we focus on the 3 main areas where we currently identify barriers: 1) Didactic vision of the future: The vision of what the didactics should look like within a school has already been changed several times, each time driven by social changes. Today we see an increased interest in ...