Topics
We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
Thirdspace
Virtual conferencing for more circular buildings
Meeting rooms take up quite a bit of space in office buildings. For sustainability reasons, it would be interesting to save on the furnishing of those extra physical square meters.
With this project, LAMMP, in collaboration with Antwerp Management School and AP Hogeschool, wants to explore to what extent resources and energy can be saved by offering meeting rooms virtually. Specifically, we want to let different users experience such a space, discover the barriers, and then put the spaces into actual use. Additionally, we applied the same principle to the development of virtual study spaces.
LAMMP
Partners Antwerp Management School, AP Hogeschool
Sectors
Organisations
Website
MOST IMPORTANT
RESULTS
- Virtual meeting rooms have a positive impact on mobility, without reducing the social interaction among employees or their connection with the company.
- Ad hoc communication between users of a space is important. Furthermore, we found that meeting rooms, even virtually, should feel spacious and be well-lit.
- We have managed to make our virtual space run autonomously in a browser. This is important to be technologically accessible.
- Within the real estate sector, we have been able to pitch our idea to more than ten developers. They were all enthusiastic and wanted to include it in their future plans.
MOST IMPORTANT
LESSONS LEARNED
- Technology remains an obstacle. Especially with larger companies, we encountered security issues.
- It is important that the virtual office closely resembles the actual office, in order to stimulate spatial components in the brain and optimize memory.
- To maximize efficiency, a virtual office must be included in the planning from the outset of a relocation or construction project. Sufficient trust in the use of the virtual office must also be established to avoid boomerang effects.
WHAT DOES
THE FUTURE HOLD?
We want to continue offering the virtual office as well as virtual study spaces as a testing environment. Additionally, we will be more actively focusing on the virtualization of real estate as a new business sector. In doing so, we aim not only to facilitate the sale of real estate but also its use.
