BESIX Group Digital Media Overview (18-24/4)

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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

Egypt: Ash & Lacy, a manufacturer and distributer of metal building envelope systems and ancillary products, that worked as a subcontractor on the GEM, published an article about their work, featuring a quote by BESIX’er Joris De Kinder.
Bouwkroniek published an article about the prevention of concrete rot.
Several media published articles about Promiris’ development of a student residence in Madrid, with BESIX RED Portugal: here, here,
Media are still reporting on the inauguration of Tour Mohamed VI: here, here, here and here.
Unidivers published an article about Triangle, in Paris.
Batinfo publishes the news about the project Le Canal Seine-Nord Europe.
Zuidas publishes about the transport over water of the “Schinkelbrug”, a temporary bypass to be used at De Nieuwe Meer in The Netherlands.
La Republica published an article about Tour F in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Media report on the start of the works at Bank Street Park by BESIX Watpac, in Sydney.
The Resident reports that Caixa Geral de Depositos will move to WellBe by BESIX RED in Portugal.
The Stadium Business reports that BESIX Watpac is shortlisted for the Hobart Stadium Project in Tasmania. More articles about this are here, here, here and here.

2. Social media posts mentioning BESIX projects

Bravo-4 has posted two updates on the works on the R4WO-project in Ghent (BE): here and here.
A Mobilis sustainability work group visited the site A27 Houten-Hooipolder Noord project.
BESIX BEMS placed containers at our new site of the Airport tram for Brussels Airport in Zaventem.
This photographer is very enthusiastic about Triangle in Paris, here, here and here, here
And the project is very popular with photographers, because here’s another one who posted about it.
BESIX Unitec and BESIX NL will be present at the National Career Conference in Amsterdam.
More proud people posted about the inauguration of the Mohamed VI Tower here, here, here, here,
NextGen, the young potential programme of Willemen Bouw, visited the Toots Thielemans project in Brussels.
Quist Wintermans Architekten designed a functional building for the project A16 Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
Virya Energy offers a look behind the scenes of the installation of the electrolysers at green hydrogen plant Hyoffwind in Zeebrugge.
Partner Movares posts about their work for project ViA15 in The Netherlands.
Two colleagues from the Group wrote a blogpost for 4PS about the use of the programme in our group.
Subcontractor MOSO Bamboo posted about the bamboo cladding at 120 meters high at the Grotius Towers in The Hague, built by BESIX NL.
BESIX sponsors the Antwerp Spring Festival, posts about it are here and here.
The CEO of Aquafin posts an update about the sludge-mono-incinerator built & operated bij FOSTER Gent by consortium Indaver and BESIX
Franki Foundations posted about a networking event for geotechnical engineers from across BESIX Group.
BESIX Infra won an Aquafin Award for their sewage project in the centre of Antwerp!
Statix, a student association for and by civil engineering students at KULeuven visited POST Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
UCB inaugurated their Genesis building in Braine-l’Alleud, built by BESIX.

3. Our people on social media

A proud coworker in Tanga, Tanzania
Michaël De Herdt, our negotiation & mediation expert, spoke at the VUB about conflict management in large construction projects.
A proud employee working on Triangle in Paris!
Jan Van Steirteghem spoke at the International Polar Foundation symposium in Luxembourg.
Sébastien Dusausoy will attend the Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Summit 2026.

4. Social media statistics

5. Social media accounts of major entities

Media Overview