Waldo Galle

Waldo Galle is professor and the academic policy coordinator on sustainability transitions at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and associate researcher for the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO). As a member of the research groups VUB Architectural Engineering, and Business Technology and Operations, he studies the financial and socio-technical feasibility of a circular economy in construction and other sectors. He questions which opportunities the transition towards that economy raises, which constraints it creates, and how practice changes together with it.

EDUCAtion

Sustainability: an interdisciplinary approach

Bouwtechniek: installaties

Bouwtechniek: skeletbouw

Research

Sustainability Transitions

Circular Economy

Life Cycle Costing

Design and Engineering

Key publications

Cambier, C., Galle, W., & De Temmerman, N. (2020). Research and Development Directions for Design Support Tools for Circular Building. Buildings, 10(8), [142]. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10080142

Buyle, M., Galle, W., Debacker, W., & Audenaert, A. (2019). Sustainability assessment of circular building alternatives: Consequential LCA and LCC for internal wall assemblies as a case study in a Belgian context. Journal of Cleaner Production, 218, 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.306

Galle, W., De Temmerman, N., & De Meyer, R. (2017). Integrating Scenarios into Life Cycle Assessment: Understanding the Value and Financial Feasibility of a Demountable Building. Buildings, 7(4), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030064