BESIX Group Digital Media Overview (04/12-10/12)

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Dear colleagues,

Please find below the international media overview and the social media review.

/!\ Note that the media overview covering Belgian print press has moved to another platform. Refer to the email from “Belga.press” you have received if you are concerned.

1. BESIX mentioned on the web

Dubai (UAE): Mena FN reports on the program of the Dubai Municipality workshops held at COP28, feat. a keynote by Peter Lembrechts, General Manager of BESIX Middle East.
Paris (France): Business Immo reports on CEO Pierre Sironval presenting the diplomas to the graduates of the 2022-2023 Real Estate Master at the prestigious Sorbonne university.
Salé (Morocco): Media outlet Maghress mentions progress on Tour Mohammed VI.
Riga (Latvia): Website Latvijas Reitingi echoes progress on the Rail Baltica project, esp. the assembly of the very first roof arch.
Australia: Inside Construction features a portrait of G. Polimeni, the new BESIX Watpac General Manager for New South Wales.

2. Social media posts mentioning BESIX projects

Mercator Lock (Oostend, Belgium): subcontractor JNS Betonboringen performed boring and sawing works at the project.
Oosterweel junction - TM ROCO (Antwerp, Belgium): video about the underwater embankment realised to protect the tunnel against ship collision.
Mediavaert (Amsterdam, the Netherlands): only two months left until the project’s delivery.
Valfabbrica SS318 (Italy): the project team celebrated the traditional Mass of Saint Barbara, patron saint of miners and tunnel workers, in the presence of the client and other stakeholders.
Nordhavn Tunnel (Copenhagen, Denmark): subcontractor Hölscher Jensen is about to start working on the 183 new boreholes needed for the realisation of the project.
Riga Rail Baltica Central Station (Riga, Latvia): video of the installation of the final arch footing for the station’s roof structure + the installation of the roof structure has begun.
Grand Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Egypt): the Middle East Economic Digest has recognised the building with three awards, being the Egypt National Winner 2023, the MENA Winner Culture Project of the Year and the MENA Winner MEED Project Award of the Year + the grand stairs and entrance hall have been opened to the public.
Nachtigal Hydropower Project (Cameroon): the supply canal was filled with water last week.

3. Our people on social media

BESIX Middle East is back on social media: give them a follow!
Yasmine, BIM Manager at Vanhout, is recognised in Autodesk’s “40 under 40”: Champions of Construction 2023. Congratulations, Yasmine!
In collaboration with Jobo Academy, BESIX organises literacy classes for its workers in Ivory Coast.
Several of young BESIX Engineers spoke at the Young Engineers Colloquium 2023 in Ghent (Belgium) last week!
Hélène de Troostembergh, CEO of BuildUp, was awarded Young Construction Personality of the Year at the Belgian Construction Awards 2023. And the BuildUp Retrofit product was awarded the Best Climate Solution! Congratulations, Hélène and the rest of the BuildUp team!

4. Social media statistics

5. Social media accounts of major entities

Media Overview