Together with the University of Antwerp, we submitted the project to Flanders Circular in 2018 after the Open Call that would provide financial support for all kinds of projects in the context of circular building.
With the project, Flanders Circular wanted to try to demonstrate that school building projects can be tendered with a focus on reuse and disassembly.
A thorough historical analysis of the existing buildings and an in-depth analysis and inventory of the materials present were the basis of the renovation design and formed the focus in the technical specifications, alongside circular properties for new materials. Maximising the preservation of the valuable parts of the historical campus buildings and reversible construction was, after all, the objective.
RETAINED AND REVERSIBLE CONSTRUCTION
The non-load-bearing internal walls of the office buildings on the site were the subject of the research around the application of new circular building materials.
LESSONS LEARNED
Our sustainability consultant Katrien Van Lierop summarises the main lessons learned from the field experiment as follows: