Dear colleagues,
here’s some news I’ve spotted on social media and on the web.
Corona in construction:
- Vanhout : closure of sites
- BESIX Red's newsletter
- ADEB's donation of mouth masks
=> let's share this with a "BESIX and its subsidiaries have donated masks in surrounding areas. Follow our example and..." Like Geert did - Cobelba's donations
- BESIX Middle East shared a motivational message from O.Crasson
- Martello shared this post
- BESIX Foundation's call to help Operation Thermos
=> @Florence : perhaps something we could share. Facebook only. With some context: link between BESIX - BESIX Foundaton - Operation Thermos - ASTAY is still open
- If the Burj says "Stay home", you stay home!
=> I've send the Insta to our Insta people at Sixco, but we could share Twitter or Facebook : https://twitter.com/BurjKhalifa/status/1242143282202923008 - Night visit at Leopold 2 Tunnel
News construction
- Construction News launched a survey to measure the impact of corona in our industry
- More site closures across the industry
- PUBLIC BACKLASH: this is what we want to avoid, I believe + here
- What about EXPO 2020 in Dubai?
- Dubai sterilizes streets :O
We have the best people, especially in times of corona:
- Lyndon Davies (QHSE director Sixco) had the best response to this guy's concern about protection of blue collars in construction
- Donaat De Schaepmeester shared a nice video of how social distancing works on one of our sites, he equally responded very well in one of the comments
=> we could share this!
And other news:
- BESIX NL's Sluishuis and Theemswegtraché here and here
- BESIX NL's Grotius towers
- BESIX NL'S Groene boog
- Leuven's Bicycle parking
- Watpac's Quantas Founders Museum
- Terraced tower
- Throwback to a successful drilling at Van den Berg
- Certifications for Franki Foundations
- Business as usual for Franki Foundations UK
- Same for Energieconcepten
- BESIX Infra asks followers to support one of its employees' daughter
- Nomination for Belgian Pavilion in Dubai and here
- ... and in construction
- Some BESIX site in Grimbergen, not sure which entity
- Yannic Leveque seems to be back at RAH
- Van Oord's creepy machine
Finally, some heartwarming stories
- Engineer transforms snorkling masks to respiratory masks
- In case you had the same question as me: are the masks we use on site suitable to protect against corona?
- I love this! We need pics like this! Engineering ?
- And we need pics like this one!