BESIX Group Digital Media Overview (10/02-16/02)

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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

Latvia: several media a.o. New Civil Engineer report about the start of construction of the 1km-bridge across the Daugana River in Riga.
Portugal: Europe Real Estate reports the sale of BESIX RED’s WellBe project to Caixa Geral de Depositos.
UAE: Several media a. o. GCC Business News and Middle East Economy cover the signature of an MoU between Dubai Municipality and BESIX to produce sustainable aircraft fuel.
Belgium: the famous YouTube channel The B1M has produced a 15min.-documentary about Oosterweel: a must watch!

2. Social media posts mentioning BESIX projects

Avenue Hector Henneau: PhD student Yasmina defended her work “Self-healing concrete with a 3D printed ductile-porous vascular network” for which she conducted tests at Avenue Henneau.
Poly Tower (Zwijnaarde, Belgium): Metifix is in charge of measuring the building’s airtightness.
Oosterweel link (Zeebruges & Antwerp, Belgium): The B1M published a video about the project, including interviews with several of our colleagues.
Oosterweel link - TM COTU (Zeebruges, Belgium): drone video showing the progress at the dry dock.
Oosterweel link - TM ROCO (Antwerp, Belgium): the first girders have arrived on site.
Mediavaert DPG Media (Amsterdam, the Netherlands): new pictures taken by architectural photographer Egbert de Boer + employees of DPG Media were show around their future work place.
A16 - De Groene Boog (Rotterdam, the Netherlands): concreting works for the 15th segment are ungoing + Freyssinet, the supplier of the launching nose, is happy with the progress.
Deloitte University EMEA Training Centre (Bailly-Romainvilliers, France): new picture of the centre’s interior.
Saint-Denis Pleyel metro station (Paris, France): video with drone images of the site + an evacuation exercise was organised recently by the Parisian fire brigade.
Tour Triangle (Paris, France): a delegation of DELAVAL, a subcontractor on the project, visited the site.
WellBe office building (Lisbon, Portugal): BESIX RED and Atenor are partnering to develop CGD’s new headquarters.
Rail Baltica Riga Central Station (Riga, Latvia): the consortium BERERIX has completed and commissioned the first out of eight construction permits.
James Cook University’s Engineering Innovation Precinct (Townsville, Australia): sneak peek of the new building, just weeks before its opening.
Kardinia Park Stage 5 Redevelopment (Geelong, Australia): video explaining the works and giving an update.
St John of God Hospital redevelopment (Ballarat, Australia): final façade elements and staged fit-out works are going on.
BESIX Middle East signed a MoU with Dubai Municipality, Marubeni and ENOC regarding the production of sustainable aviation fuel.

3. Our people on social media

Welcome to the BESIX Family, Mithilesh, Saadeddine, Robbie, Vincent, Joel, Andrew & Jefferson!
Thomas, General Manager at BESIX Technology, gives three tips to take into account before investing in a start-up!
Jacques talks about the temporary cameras that were installed to avoid robberies at the Avenue Hector Henneau site (Zaventem, Belgium) in a video of BauWatch.
Arafat celebrates his 15th anniversary at BESIX, congratulations!

4. Social media statistics

5. Social media accounts of major entities

Media Overview