Sustainability Assessment
The University of Antwerp hosts a broad expertise in the field of sustainability assessment, and more specifically in the field of life cycle assessment (LCA), techno-economic assessment (TEA) and ecodesign.
The expertise is focused on developing new assessment methodologies, as well as on quantitative and qualitative assessments of products, processes and policies.
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Product Development
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* Qualitative evaluation of products’ ecological impact over the complete life cycle
* Lifecycle thinking towards ecodesign products and product services systems development
*Assessment of design opportunities for a circular economy
Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development
* Interdisciplinary solutions for sustainability
* Bringing together natural sciences/engineering with social sciences, incl. economics
* Education on sustainability
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Info: Jan Cools, Jessica Bots, Monique Sys
Engineering Management
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*Techno-economic assessment (TEA) to foster the development of clean technologies
* Expertise in methodological components towards sustainability assessment: life cycle costing (LCC), life cycle analysis (LCA), combination and integration of economic and environmental metrics to assess sustainability
Bio-Chemical Green Engineering & Materials
* Systemic innovations for circular materials
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* Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of end-of-life materials processing
* Multi-objective optimization in support of sustainability driven decision making
Info: Pieter Billen
Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings
* Consequential and attributional LCA for construction materials, infrastructure works and buildings
* Environmental benefits by optimizing innovative road construction materials and processes
* Circular economy strategies in the building sector for products & systems on a building and district level
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Info: Amaryllis Audenaert, Wim Van den Bergh, Matthias Buyle
Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology
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* LCAs in the field of wastewater treatment and infrastructure, recovery of resources
* Material flow or substance flow evaluations for all water related systems
* Economic evaluation of water and wastewater related technologies
Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
* Expert – civil society relations, science and technology studies
* Participatory TA, social inclusion, sustainability transitions and system analysis
* Deliberation processes and policy evaluation methods
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Transport and Regional Economics
* Analysis of the cost and revenue potential (operational and external) of innovations in transport and logistics
* Identification of success and failure factors of innovative initiatives for sustainability in transport and logistics