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Expert Workshop on Reverse Logistics for Circular Building Products 
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Expert Workshop on Reverse Logistics for Circular Building Products
 at 
TU Delft 
Overview

Develop integrated strategies for reverse logistics within your business

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

28,636

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Expert Workshop on Reverse Logistics for Circular Building Products
 at 
TU Delft 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Delft University of Technology
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Expert Workshop on Reverse Logistics for Circular Building Products
 at 
TU Delft 
Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • For architects, engineers, and professionals
What are the course deliverables?
  • To understand circularity principles required and the used in the shift toward a circular economy
  • To gain insights from best practice examples
  • To understand circular value chains for forwards and reverse logistics
  • To define costing structures for reverse logistics
  • To apply LCA strategies and scopes and see how they can help bring greater understanding of product circularity
  • To use environmental impact calculations
More about this course
  • The transition to a Circular Economy is increasingly urgent in the construction and built environment industries and pressure will grow on companies and individuals to find new roles within more circular and sustainable value chains
  • This workshop will enable you to assess your product strategy in terms of circularity and specifically on the potential of reverse logistics and help you develop integrated strategies for reverse logistics within your business

Expert Workshop on Reverse Logistics for Circular Building Products
 at 
TU Delft 
Curriculum

Week 1: Design engineering for building products for the Circular Economy

What is the circular economy and why does it matter?

The product development process and how to transition to more circular alternatives

Inter-disciplinary, systemic thinking: Technology, Economy and Ecology

Reverse logistics and their role enabling the ?R? strategies

Examples and case-studies from industry

Week 2: Business models and value chain for a circular Building Industry

The business case for developing circular reverse logistics models

Drivers and barriers for the reverse logistics transition

Reverse supply-chain organization, costs and investments for a gradual business transition

Working with partners and branch associations, establishing shared reverse logistics infrastructure

Examples and case-studies from industry

Week 3: Environment impact assessment and strategic decision making

Life-Cycle Analysis, its boundaries and its relevance in the circular economy and reverse logistics transitions

The strategic and branding value of pursuing and achieving circularity as your company?s unique selling point

Making informed decisions and prioritizing high impact steps

Develop products with better end-of-life scenarios

Examples and case-studies from industry

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Expert Workshop on Reverse Logistics for Circular Building Products
 at 
TU Delft 
Faculty details

Ester van der Voet
Ester van der Voet is an Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Department Industrial Ecology of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML). Within the field of Industrial Ecology, she specialises in methodology development: life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis, substance flow analysis, natural resource accounting, and indicator development.
Dr. Ing. Benny Tjahjono
Professor of Sustainability and Supply Chain Management at Coventry University, UK. Fields of expertise: Operations Management; Supply-Chain Management; Sustainable Supply-Chain Operations; Sustainable Production and Consumption; Logistics; Modeling and Simulation; Manufacturing Systems Engineering; Information Systems Analysis/Design; Manufacturing/Industrial Management.
Dr. Ing. Linda Hildebrand.
Professor for Reuse in Architecture at RWTH Aachen University. Her focus is on the production and deconstruction phases of the building cycle. It deals with sustainable construction and development of concepts and methodologies to evaluate resource efficiency. Life-cycle analysis as well as optimization of circularity are other aspects of her expertise.
Dr. Ir. Karel Van Acker
Professor in Circular Economy at KU Leuven with a joint mandate with the department of Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering Sciences) and the Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability (Faculty of Business and Economics).

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