News Belgium’s parliament votes overwhelmingly for nuclear U-turn Belgium’s parliament voted overwhelmingly last week in favour of a bill that reverses a law enacted 22 years ago that mandated an end to nuclear power generation, Brussels Times reports.…
News Construction begins on Belgium’s €7bn energy island Belgian grid operator Elia Group announced on Wednesday that the first two of 23 concrete caissons had been installed at Prince Elizabeth Energy Island in the North Sea. Elia said…
News Belgium wants an atomic U-turn, but its nuclear operator doesn’t The Belgian government wants to extend the lives of its five nuclear reactors and start building their replacements, repealing a 2003 law banning new nuclear construction, the Belga news agency…
News Deme-led consortium to build €300m terminal at German port of Cuxhaven Belgian dredging company Deme has won a contract worth €52m to help build an offshore wind terminal in the Port of Cuxhaven in Germany. Expected to cost €300m in total,…
Trends Rise of the refurb: How Brussels is saying no to new-builds Two landmark office-tower refurbs in the Belgian capital saved thousands of tonnes of waste and emissions, and showed developers’ appetite for ‘urban mining’. GCR went to investigate Amid the torrent…
News Brussels blaze points to growing risk of fires caused by solar panels Solar panels on an office building in the centre of Brussels caught fire on Tuesday, according to the city’s fire brigade and local media. The fire happened around 2pm in…
News Flanders to contribute €200m to €1bn cost of gravity wave ‘telescope’ The Flemish government will contribute €200m to the more than €1bn cost of building the Einstein Telescope – a massive device about 300m underground that will record the passing of…
News Sweco to design 700MW battery park in Belgium Utility-scale battery developer Giga Storage has hired Sweco to design what will be one of continental Europe’s biggest battery parks in Belgium. The so-called Green Turtle battery park will have…
News Flanders aims to make nature-inclusive building the ‘new normal’ The city of Ghent and the regional government of Flanders have launched a two-year project to make nature-inclusive construction the new normal in Belgium.
News Work starts on main stretch of €5.1bn French canal for super-barges Work has begun on the main section of a broad-gauge, 107km-long canal for super-barges in France that is intended to significantly improve freight flows between France, Belgium and the Netherlands,…
News ‘Floating’ pavilion showcases restoration of Belgium’s historic Botanic Garden The historic Botanic Garden in the Belgian municipality of Meise has unveiled a hyperboloid visitor pavilion designed by Gent-based practice NU Architectuuratelier. The 2,300-sq-m building is constructed using Kebony modified…
News Belgium breaks ground on ground breaking hybrid research reactor The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre has started building a €1.6bn research reactor to replace its ageing BR2 reactor in Mol, near Antwerp. Called “Myrrha”, it’ll be used for research into…
News Team picked to build substations on Belgium’s €2bn energy island Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North Sea. The planned Princess Elisabeth Island, which…
News David Kohn Architects to expand Belgium contemporary art museum UK studio David Kohn Architects, Belgium’s noAarchitecten and Turkey’s Asli Çiçek have won an international design competition for a €90m renovation for the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent,…
News ‘Site of the century’: Crews square up to Antwerp’s tunnel-under-a-canal A joint venture of contractors last week started the complex job of building a double-deck road tunnel under the Albert Canal in Antwerp, Belgium. It will consist of a pair…
News Six teams shortlisted for Antwerp’s museum of contemporary art Six international design teams have been made it to the final stage of a competition to design an extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. About 50 practices…
News Google begins work on €600m green data centre in Belgium Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…
News Besix overhauls all level crossings in Bilzen, Belgium Belgian contractor Besix started work this month on a €31m project to replace all seven railway level crossings in the Belgian city of Bilzen. Over three years, it will use…