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Re/Building Brussels

By building and rebuilding urban space, the construction sector caters to an essential urban need, both in the past and today. However, the sector faces specific challenges: a local embeddedness that is under pressure, an enduring need for sufficient skilled workers, and a transition to a circular economy that needs to be made. To grasp this complexity, geographers, historians and engi-neer-architects at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are taking a new, interdisciplinary look at the Brussels construction sector from 1695 to the present day.

Symposium Re/Building Brussels, Beeld: Bruce Forton

Symposium

The symposium will present the results of the research project ‘Building Brussels’, which focused on the composition and organisation of the Brussels building sector and how space can be made for construction companies in the city. It will then introduce the follow-up project ‘Rebuilding Brussels’, which examines how the construction sector can be a pioneer in creating a circular economy and an inclusive labour market in Brussels.

Join the symposium on Thursday 10 February 2022 (13:00-17:00h) at Centrum Hageltoren / Centre Tour à Plomb, Slachthuisstraat 24 Rue de l’Abattoir, 1000 Brussels. Live attendance is conditional and subject to Covid regulations on 10/02/2022.

Or follow and participate online. You will receive the link and practical information after registration.

Free access - Registration is required: register here

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Programme

  • 13:00 - Welcome and introduction
  • 13:10 - Building Brussels. The Brussels construction sector and the urban space (1830-today)
  • Matthijs Degraeve [VUB], Frederik Vandyck [VUB/UAntwerpen] and Sarah De Boeck [VUB/perspective.brussels]
  • Commentary by Kristiaan Borret [Brussels bouwmeester maître architecte]
  • 14:00 - Break
  • 14:10 - Rebuilding Brussels. The urban construction sector as an engine for social inclusion and circularity (1695-today)
  • Karoline da Silva Rodrigues [VUB], Lara Reyniers [VUB] and Louise Huba [VUB]
  • 14:40 - Material reward: Supply chains, labour and money in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire (1666)
  • Judy Stephenson [The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction]
  • 15:20 - Break
  • 15:30 - Circularity: Building on the past and looking to the future
  • Gilli Hobbs [Sustainability and Circular Economy Advisor]
  • 16:10 - Discussion
  • Judy Stephenson, Gilli Hobbs, Kristiaan Borret and Re/Building Brussels
  • 17:30 - Reception at Halles Saint-Géry / Sint-Gorikshallen: vernissage of the expo Re/Building BrusselsSint-Goriksplein / Place St-Géry, 1000 Brussels

Praktisch

  • DATE:

    10.02.2022

  • ADMISSION:

    free, registration necessary