WAFX-Award – Power and Justice
On the World Architecture Festival, prison project Haren has won the WAFx award in the category ‘Power and Justice’. Read more about this using the following link:https://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/wafx-2019-power-and-justice
Renewable energy in the prison
In addition to solar panels, the new Haren prison has a number of other installations that will help reduce energy consumption. One of these is a geothermal energy storage-system, which consists of 250 drillings to store heat or cold or to extract it from the ground. It makes this system[…]
Works in the Witloofstraat / Kuregemstraat
On Monday 7 October, work will start on the crossing of the sewerage system of the new prison with the Witloofstraat. In order to carry out these works safely, the Witloofstraat / Kuregemstraat will not be accessible between the two berles during the duration of these works. There will be[…]
Working on Saturdays
From now on, we will also be working on Saturdays between 7:00 and 16:00. The work that will be carried out will not cause any additional nuisance to the environment. It goes without saying we will make sure that the disruption management plan for this project is also respected during[…]
Gold Award for Haren Prison: Best Social Infrastructure Project
At the Partnership Awards, awards for the best public-private partnerships, the project of Haren Prison has been recognised as the best project project for social infrastructure. The project is a DBFM-cooperation between Buildings Agency and the consortium Cafasso, which Denys is part of. The jury motivated their gold award for[…]
Open Construction Site Day – 19 May 2019
On 19 May 2019, the next edition of the Open Construction Site Day will take place. It won’t be possible to visit the new prison this year, but Denys is taking part with two other interesting projects in the surrounding area. Kraainem – Haren: Construction of a natural gas pipeline[…]
The first tower crane has been built!
At the end of April, the first two tower cranes were built on the construction site. The other tower cranes will gradually be installed in the coming months. In total, fifteen tower cranes are going to be installed in order to complete the construction. All tower cranes are equipped with[…]
Noise measurements around the site
In order to monitor the noise impact of the works on the surrounding area, there are three sonometers installed around the site in the vicinity of the surrounding houses. These sonometers continue to measure the surrounding noise and send out a notification if the limits have been exceeded by activity[…]
