Construction in Drenthe must and can be much more sustainable, the province believes. A special course has been set up for this together with the Hanze University of Applied Sciences. Participants receive lessons in sustainable building materials and construction methods, always in a different location.
The participants always come from a different corner of construction: architects, installers, housing associations, construction companies.
The first group of students ended up at the circularly built waste station in Roden before the summer, and last Friday the lessons of the second course group were held at the Greenwise Campus in Emmen. Currently the old bus depot for regional transport, after a sustainable renovation it will soon become a place where schools and businesses work together on new green bio-plastics.
After all the inspiration about how to sustainably renovate the old bus depot, the lesson continues. The students soon have something that they can apply in their own work: green insulation materials. Peter Kuindersma, lecturer in circular construction at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, brought a whole pile of sustainable and recycled building products to Emmen.
Wiliam Bruins – who works in daily life at the Drenthe-Groningen contractor Brands – completed the course while he is also working on a unique project and a unique building: The complete renovation of the Apenrots or the Gasunie building in Groningen. Almost everything is either reused in the renovation, such as window frames, or is given a second life, such as non-reusable plasterboard that a plaster factory can do something with: recycle and make new panels.
A proud William Bruins gives a tour and we take a look at a day of circular construction course in the video below.