Circulair Construction Consolidation Centre op Blue Gate Antwerp

The first eco-effective, water-bound business park in Belgium

Blue Gate Antwerp will be transformed from a brownfield into a sustainable, eco-effective and water-bound business park. The Blue Gate Circular Construction Consolidation Centre will itself be developed according to this circular approach, acting as a catalyst for the further circular development of the site and its wider surroundings. The concept of a Construction Consolidation Centre (CCC) is applied to reduce and optimise the burden of transport on a city. With a Circular CCC, we want to use the potential of this sustainable logistical and organisational concept to practically support a circular building economy, in which waste no longer exists and building elements are reused or repaired.

For the realisation of the Circular Construction Consolidation Centre at Blue Gate Antwerp, we want to start a co-creation process with the stakeholders to investigate how the concept can be realised, with the ultimate goal of developing a business model for the realisation of the Circular Consolidation Centre.

Initially, many new materials will be brought to the city through the CCC. In the long run, it is intended that building elements, components and materials from the city will be 'mined' and prepared for reuse via the CCC (on site or otherwise), in order to be used again in the city according to circular principles. During the study phase, the site can already be used temporarily as part of the pilot project for the supply and transport of construction-related materials for the Slim Naar Antwerpen project, in which the CCCC can be one of the construction hubs for the city of Antwerp. The lessons learned about logistical flows of building materials will be included in the business model and supplemented with the ambitions regarding circular recycling.

An innovative, future-proof and market-bearing business model must emerge from the co-creation process, which will then be implemented on the Blue Gate site. The intention is that a specific part of the site and/or building will be equipped to house this CCC. The research will show which constructions such as office buildings, workshops, sheds, loading and unloading quays, storage places, etc. are necessary to accommodate the CCC.