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Sustainable Logistics Sites (SuLoSi). 01/11/2023 - 30/04/2026

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Logistics activities in Flanders are constantly increasing. This evolution supports our prosperity and will continue.This growth translates into more transport and expansion of logistics capacity transport infrastructure logistics buildings goods handling zones: terminals, car parks, bulk storage (raw materials and waste) logistics business parks. This evolution is reinforced by the transition to circular economy. This project aims to make logistics business parks and real estate more sustainable in terms of space, mobility, drought, climate and nature by stimulating, testing and publicizing innovative solutions for rational and circular use of space, resources and infrastructure and the collaboration and business models that support these solutions. Within this collaboration with VIL, VITO and VLAKWA, UA focuses on making land use, mobility and biodiversity of business parks more sustainable.

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A plan for healthy urban development in the Merode region (HEALTHY CORE) 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2021

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More and more the importance of a healthy living environment is coming to the fore. With this project we want to contribute to the knowledge about healthy strengthening of residential areas in peri-urban regions. By involving local care providers in the planning process, we are looking for a way to make better use of the area through the care sector, on the one hand, and to increase the natural capital in the centers in relation to their health. The project results in guidelines for designers and planners for healthy urban design. In addition, the project is considered to be a learning process towards interdisciplinary cooperation between spatial planning and the care and health sector at the level of policy, research and practice.

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