EDA, present in the TBE Congress 2015
10/06/2015
Mr. Johan D’Hooghe, secretary of CASO and Board member of the European Demolition Association, EDA, participated in a panel debate during the Tiles & Bricks Europe Congress 2015.
Tiles and bricks executives from across Europe met in Leuven, Belgium, on 1 and 2 June for the 2015 TBE Congress, which was hosted and organised by the Royal Dutch Association for Building Ceramics (KNB) and the Belgian Brick Association (BBF).
Also the TBE General Assembly and other related activities, in the afternoon of the second day six panelists representing key stakeholder groups as architects, academia, social housing and, of course, demolition – through Mr. Johan D’Hooghe – covered all three pillars of sustainability from environmental to economic and social.
The industry believes that the scope of a proper sustainability assessment needs to focus on the entire building because construction materials are always used as building elements.
Moreover, to gain a comprehensive assessment it is essential to consider the whole life cycle of the building and its elements, up to the recycling and re-use phase.
Following successful meetings, the TBE Secretariat looks forward to welcoming its members to Switzerland for the 2016 Congress on 23-24 June.
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