Projects
Sustainability assessment of roads containing reclaimed asphalt pavement - Decision support based on life cycle assessment & life cycle cost analysis during road design. University of Antwerp
Sustainability Assessment of Pharmaceuticals: Coupling Environmental Life Cycle Assessment and Human Health Benefits Ghent University
Elaboration of a Sustainability Assessment Method for Neighbourhoods KU Leuven
In the past decade, the neighbourhood scale has gained importance in the field of sustainable construction. To support designers and building stakeholders in the design of sustainable buildings and neighbourhoods, several sustainability assessment tools have been developed. Among these tools, a distinction can be made between scoring tools and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools. Scoring tools assign scores to a number of criteria covering a ...
Supporting sustainable soil management: Assessment of knowledge, public preferences and information to stimulate decision-making on sustainability KU Leuven
Soil is a crucial component of natural resources that humanity largely depends on through its contribution to many of the services delivered by ecosystems. Nevertheless, soil is experiencing increasing pressures that are often directly or indirectly connected to unsustainable human behavior. In order to preserve the wide range of ecosystem services that soil delivers, a shift towards sustainable soil-related human behavior is needed, ...
Bridging environmental economics and sustainability assessment. University of Antwerp
Technical sustainability of biological production systems. A model based life cycle assessment of fertilizer management KU Leuven
Accordingly with world’s movement towards sustainable development, agriculture faces mounting pressure to reduce its environmental impact. The present organisation of our food production leads to significant alterations of the global nitrogen cycle causing increased nitrogen emissions into the ecosystem. Aiming at sustainable systems requires to account for long-term implications of practices and the broad interactions and dynamics of ...
Development of a Comprehensive Sustainability Assessment Method for Large-Scale Health Care Buildings in Flanders KU Leuven
Over the past decade, the interest in how hospital buildings are designed and operated has considerably increased. With the urge to decrease the negative impacts of the building stock around the world, hospitals are equally called upon to respond to this matter. As hospital buildings are very complex and, in most cases, also large-scale buildings (in terms of large buildings or clustering of several buildings), it is a real challenge to ...
Sustainability assessment of contaminated site remediation with emphasis on valuation. KU Leuven
Although the integration of the principles of sustainability in the selection of site remediation alternatives has become an important issue, most attention is still paid to the direct costs of the soil remediation and the environmental and health impacts of the soil contamination. Less tangible social and economic aspects, such as non-monetary costs and benefits, are only marginally addressed, although they are essential to make a more ...
Operational Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Methodology Supporting Decisions Towards a Circular Economy Ghent University
Sustainable development and circular economy require balancing between environmental, economic and social benefits and de-coupling the economic growth from resource use. The European New Green Deal highlights the need for reliable, comparable and verifiable sustainability information. Existing sustainability assessment approaches suffer from lack of comprehensiveness, consistency and practical tools for implementation. This results in ...