The Province of Limburg is building a new multifunctional training hall at the former Zwartberg mine site for the PLOT (Province of Limburg Education and Training) training centre for police, fire brigades and ambulance services.
When building this new training hall, we want to focus as much as possible on sustainability and apply a number of circular principles. For example, when the new centre is demolished, it must be possible to reintroduce the building materials into the chain without any loss of quality. This requires a flexible design, but also an extra effort from a whole range of other actors in the chain, such as manufacturers, legislators, clients, contractors and demolishers.
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Thanks to this project, different parties got a whole new perspective on building and sustainability. Although we cannot yet call the new training hall fully circular, this new view will certainly have a positive influence on future building projects or interventions in existing infrastructure. Some concrete, practical applications will certainly be used again in the future, given their clear advantages.
Our experience with circularity in this project was already very positive and makes us long for more ...