Week of 9 January
1. Mediavaert project celebrates 1 year anniversary (The Netherlands)
Last month, our colleagues from BESIX Nederland celebrated the first anniversary of the Mediavaert project. In the video and pictures below you can witness the tremendous progress they have made. Congratulations to the team for this amazing teamwork in structural work and façade!
Mediavaert will be DPG Media’s new hybrid-timber office building in Amsterdam. With more than 44,000 m², the building will be one of the largest hybrid-timber office buildings in the world. Building with timber presents many environmental advantages. The production of timber generates significantly less CO2and nitrogen than concrete. In addition, during their growth, trees absorb CO2, which remains stored in the material. This means that Mediavaert's timber construction has a potentially positive carbon balance.
2. New contract in the health sector awarded to BESIX (Australia)
BESIX Watpac has been awarded the contract to build Gold Coast University Hospital’s new Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit. The 40-bed facility will be built across two floors and will provide secure services to support people with severe and complex mental health disorders in their recovery.
BESIX Watpac has a wide experience in health-related facilities (with more than 50 projects across Australia). In delivering this new critical project, our Australian colleagues will once more leverage 40 years of health infrastructure experience and expertise. Congrats to the BESIX Watpac team for this victory!
3. Vanhout uses power conductive paint to prevent concrete degradation (Belgium)
The new campus which Vanhout is building for the AP Hogeschool in Antwerp has eye-catching black stripes. That’s because Vanhout has decided to use a very special power conductive paint on this building which prevents concrete carbonation and therefore increases the lifetime of the building. This technique of ‘cathodic protection’, in simple words ‘applying electricity to the building’, has been used for a long time in marine construction and for the protection of underground piping and tanks to stop rust.
4. New look for City2 shopping mall in Brussels thanks to Jacques Delens (Belgium)
Jacques Delens is renovating part of the façades of the famous City2 commercial centre in Brussels for AG Real Estate. The new façade looks stunning, as you can see in the pictures below!
And then this...
Watch in this timelapse the evolution of the Waste to Management project in Dubai and how this facility was literally stamped out of the sandy ground.
