Thursday March 23
The site visits are scheduled on the third day of the Conference on Decarbonization and Re-use: a day to meet the industry, visit projects, and meet and speak to like-minded engineering colleagues in the working field of the sustainable construction industry.
During the site visit, several sites and projects in and around Amsterdam will be visited to give an impression of the possibilities of reducing decarbonization by re-using existing foundations. The program offers several tours, each with its own focus and the participants can select one tour in the morning and another in the afternoon, with a lunch served between the two tours.
Tour 1 (8.00-12.45)
This tour will visit finished projects, where existing buildings have given a new function to highlight how architects, owners, structural engineers, contractors and foundation engineers have worked together to make sustainability more than just an ambition. The tour visits a revived building reconstructed from four individual buildings, originally constructed in the 1970s. The result is an energy-efficient building with the BREEAM Outstanding status. The tour will also visit an old prison that has been converted into a multi-purpose center, including a cinema. An old prisoner will explain what has been done to the building to make it suitable for its new functions. Travel to these buildings will be by a sustainable touring car.
Program:
8.00hrs Gathering at Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
8.15hrs Departure with touring car to project 1: De Koepel Haarlem
8.45hrs Arrival at De Koepel-Haarlem
Introduction and presentation
Guided Tour
10.15 Departure to project 2: EDGE Amsterdam West
10.45hrs Arrival at EDGE Amsterdam West
Introduction and presentation
Guided Tour
12.15hrs Departure
12.45hrs Arrival at Hermitage / Portugese Synagoge, Weesperstraat 63 in Amsterdam
Tour 2 (8.45 – 12.00)
This tour is a walking tour along finished and ongoing projects in downtown Amsterdam where foundations have been or are re-used. This often requires extensive investigations to assess the suitability of the existing, and often old, foundations for future use, in many cases supplemented by additional foundation works to guarantee that future use. Old historic buildings with old, new and mixed foundations will be visited. And, if the construction schedule is cooperating, a building pit where an existing foundation is examined will be part of the guided walking tour.
Program:
8.45hrs Gathering at Amsterdam Central Station
9.00hrs Start walking tour guided (4-5 km)
9.15hrs Stops at finished & ongoing projects, Amsterdam
12.00hrs Arrival at Amsterdam Info Centre, Achtergracht 20, Amsterdam
Tour 3 (13.00 – 17.00)
Meet the industry parties of sustainable concrete mixes and concrete products. Most of the concrete in The Netherlands is based on the principle of cradle-to-cradle. New developments in breaking down concrete to its basic components make it possible to increase the applications of reused concrete. The tour visits a plant where concrete waste is broken down into aggregates and cement and a production plant of precast concrete foundation elements. The production process of these elements, as well the sustainability philosophy of a cradle-to-cradle foundation will be shown.
More information can be found here.
Program:
12.30 Gathering at Hermitage/Portugese Synagoge, Weesperstraat 63
13.00hrs Departure by touring car
13.30hrs Arrival at Bouwhub, Amsterdam
Introduction & Guided Tour
14.30hrs Departure by touring car
15.00hrs Arrival at Urban Mine
Presentation & Guided Tour Urban Mine
16.30hrs Departure by touring car
17.00hrs Arrival at Hermitage/Portugese Synagoge, Weesperstraat 63
Tour 4 (13.15 – 16.00)
Amsterdam is in the process of renewing their quays and bridges throughout the city. Most of the 1000 bridges of downtown Amsterdam were designed centuries ago for the traffic loads at that time, i.e. the maximum load of a lorry pulled by hand or horse. Nowadays traffic is obviously heavier and more intense. And the bridges are still there, despite their age. But apart from the bridges, the hundreds of kilometres of quays along the canals were also built centuries ago. Replacing them is unnecessary when re-use is the standard. What is the status of the public works on the world-famous bridges and canals of the center of Amsterdam? There will be presentations in the downtown visitors and exposition center, about how Amsterdam has developed over the centuries and the role of the canals, followed by a guided walking tour where the investigation, monitoring and restoration works can be observed.
Program:
12.00hrs Gathering at Amsterdam Info Center, Achtergracht 20 Amsterdam
13.00hrs Start with two presentations
14.00hrs Short break
14.15hsr Departure to project
14.30hrs Explanation about the project
16.00hrs End
