• Product lifetime prolongation through reuse and recycling
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Knowledge Management
• Manufacturability analysis and design optimisation
• Development of Pro-active Eco-design Methodologies
• Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems for Industrial Sectors
• Life cycle engineering applications

Current international and national research projects:

• McKnow: Methods and Algorithms for Knowledge Management (IWT)
• Development of improved fastening and separation techniques in support of design for disassembly and design for recycling strategies (IWT)
• CHASM: Coping with health, environmental and safety aspects in standards for machinery (Belgian Science Policy)
• Refining and applying the pro-active ecodesign method 'Eco-Pas' (IWT)

• RAVEL: RAil VEhicLe eco-efficient design (EU Brite Euram)
• ECOSYSTEMS: Advanced Machining Systems for Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing (EC-Growth Project)
• RELOOP: Reverse logistics chain optimisation in a multi-user trading environment (EU Esprit)
• Development of a modular eco-design procedure for electro-mechanical products based on the full life cycle (IWT)