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[NL hieronder]💡Saviez-vous que l’intelligence artificielle joue désormais un rôle clé dans la fabrication du béton et du ciment ? Découvrez comment dans Let’s Talk ! 🔗 en bio --- 💡Wist je dat artificiële intelligentie vandaag een sleutelrol speelt in de productie van beton en cement? Ontdek hoe in Let’s Talk! 🔗in bio @febelcem

The transformation of the cement sector is now also reflected in Febelcem’s renewed visual identity and new website. Curious to see the result? Take a look via the link in our bio.

EM2N | PROJECT 03 Toni Areal, Zurich For the conversion of the large former Toni milk processing plant into a location for education, culture and housing EM2N aimed to enable the productive coexistence of a wide variety of functions within the project, while at the same time introducing creative impulses that exert a positive effect on the adjoining urban space. Appropriation, change and exchange are expressly called for. To produce variety and diversity the architecture works with grades of refinement that differ from place to place: generally raw, here and there more refined, sometimes overelaborated but mostly under-defined. A wide range of extremely different spaces is created that includes functional public halls and circulation spaces as well as intimate practice rooms, a multifunctional workshop and a highly specialised sound studio: the building as city, the city as building. TA+LK by EM2N 18.11.25 - 7pm Royal Museums of Fine Arts Brussels - Auditorium 490 Tickets & info via the link in bio or on a-plus.be. Images © Filip Dujardin Co-production with @bozarbrussels Sponsored by @febelcem @em2n_ag #aplus #architectureinbelgium #mathiasmüller #danielniggli

🎉 FEBELCEM turns 100 today! 🏗️ On 3 June 1925, the ‘Groupement Professionnel de Fabricants de Ciment Portland Artificiel de Belgique’ (Professional Association of Manufacturers of Artificial Portland Cement of Belgium) or GPC was founded - the forerunner of what is FEBELCEM today. 💡 What began as an initiative to monitor the quality of cement, with its own lab and information brochures, grew into an industry organisation that has contributed to standardisation, innovation and knowledge sharing within the cement industry for decades. 📏 As early as 1927, the GPC asked the government to set the first standards around strength, binding and grinding fineness. 🔬 In 1959, this led to the establishment of the CRIC-OCCN, still an important research institution for the industry. Today, 100 years later, FEBELCEM remains committed to new standards and cement types with lower climate impact. Rooted in the past, looking to the future. #100yearsFEBELCEM #cement #construction sector #sustainability #standardisation #innovation #climate-neutralbuilding #Belgianindustry

Concrete Design Competition 11 — 1st Prize — ‘REbuild’ – Stijn Jalon & Douwe Neven — KULeuven – Faculteit Architectuur – Campus Sint-Lucas Gent . This project begins with an examination of the prefabricated concrete beams, columns, and TT-beams that make up the industrial building that currently dominates Mexico Island in Antwerp. The plan calls for keeping the building lot’s current structure intact while salvaging materials from other locations for the modified construction. A new structure was created by fusing salvaged materials with pre-existing columns arranged in a grid since the original one-story building was not intended to hold eight further stories. The columns are joined by attaching steel belts around them. The building is finished by combining timber components with the concrete framework. In a sense, the architecture students see themselves as a tool to piece together an already-existing puzzle in this process rather than as designers: the building rebuilds itself. . Read more in the jury report via the link in bio. . @stijnjn @douwie_ . @arch_kuleuven . @concretedesigncompetition . #cdc11 #concretedesigncompetition #studentcompetition

Concrete Design Competition 11 — 2nd Prize — ‘Domus Memoria’ – Anna-Lisa Custers — UHasselt – Faculteit Architectuur en Kunst . Domus Memoria is a project located in Mai Po, Hong Kong, bridging a vast water area. It forms a structure that creates an in-between that both interacts with extreme erosion in coastal areas as well as connects the people of two areas. The design forms both a landscape structure with diked rooms, and walls and a building structure as House of Memory. The materials, concrete with local granite aggregates and wood, are mined on site while digging the foundation, combined with waste rubble from local mines. . Read more in the jury report via the link in bio. . @annalisa_custers . @facark @universiteithasselt . @concretedesigncompetition . #cdc11 #concretedesigncompetition #studentcompetition

Concrete Design Competition 11 — 3rd Prize — ‘BIBLIO.GRAF.ie’ – Hélène Simonis — UHasselt – Faculteit Architectuur en Kunst . This project for Herkenrode wishes to create a vertical tower as a new landmark. From there the visitor would have a different view on the surroundings. Moreover, the tower would serve as a vertical columbarium, which preserves the natural landscape around compared to a cemetery with tombstones. By combining the columbarium with a library, death will be brought back into everyday life. . Read more in the jury report via the link in bio. . @helenesi_99 . @facark @universiteithasselt . @concretedesigncompetition . #cdc11 #concretedesigncompetition #studentcompetition

Concrete Design Competition 11 — Honourable Mention — ‘Assembling’ – Ali Chahrour & Rémi De Rijck — UCLouvain – LOCI . This project showcases research into the process of assembling an urban shelter. The way it is designed, it can easily be dismantled and reassembled. The joints are dry connections, so no concrete is poured to connect the elements and imbed the reinforcement. Particular attention was paid to the design of the prefabricated concrete part to have the greatest variability of implementation possible from a limited number of parts. . Read more in the jury report via the link in bio. . @ali.chahrour99 @remi.derijck . @infoloci @uclouvain_bruxelles . @concretedesigncompetition . #cdc11 #concretedesigncompetition #studentcompetition

Concrete Design Competition 11 — Honourable Mention — ‘ENSO’ – Illy Klerckx, Valerie Langens & Estée Scavone . This project proposes a pavilion for the city park in Hasselt. The designers looked at the concrete fences in the area that would have to be replaced by green hedges in the near future. The concrete slab became the building block of this pavilion. A total of about 37 design were tested, all using this one simple form. Mock-ups were made paying extra attention to how these elements could be joined. . Read more in the jury report via the link in bio. . @_archilly @valerielangens @esteescavone . @universiteithasselt @facark . @concretedesigncompetition . #concretedesigncompetition #studentcompetition

One more week to enter the Concrete Design Competition! . Submit a poster with your design that responds to the theme “PRESENCE” and win a one-week international concrete masterclass in Eindhoven and/or one of the cash prizes (€4,000 in prize money). . Open to all students in architecture, design and engineering, enrolled in a Belgian school or university. . All info via the link in info! . Deadline 2 July 2024 – 16:00 . Good luck!

Today you have a final chance to see the results of “Experimenteel Beton” (Experimental Concrete) during @architect_at_work in Brussels. Experimenteel Beton, an initiative of @febelcem and FEBELARCH / @prefabbetonfebe brought designers and precast manufacturers together to brainstorm about new possibilities of concrete. This resulted in some surprising prototypes. You can browse the accompanying publication via the link in bio. Thanks to all designers and DECOMO and @enjoyconcrete for the brilliant results.

At the start of 2024, we look back at 2023. In September, @stadenarchitectuur organised a cycling tour as part of Architectuurprijs Leuven 2023. Thanks to the support of FEBELCEM, dozens of interested architects were able to visit various projects in an around Leuven, designed by, among others, @carton123_architecten , @fijnatelier and @anne__valerie . Photos by @arnaudtandt . #stadenarchitectuur #flemisharchitecture #architectuurprijsleuven2023