Sustainability and Circularity What we do

The importance of sustainability and circularity

Sustainability plays a major role in the industry as well as in our organization. It is not for nothing that our mission is to use our knowledge to the maximum for a healthy and sustainable world. The energy transition is obviously an important driving force, but increasingly the origin and reuse of materials also plays a major role in our advice.

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Sustainability

Comfortable, healthy and flexible buildings are needed to make the future sustainable. The built environment accounts for much of the energy consumption but, in doing so, also has much of the solution at its fingertips. Energy-neutral building has been demanded for some time in new construction and renovation. We therefore try to design as many (almost) energy-neutral buildings (BENG) as possible.

We have experts in-house who are certified to issue a BREEAM certificate for projects. We have also developed our own internal sustainability tool based on the BREEAM methodology. This allows us to determine our own ambition and contribution for projects. This tool can also be used to discuss sustainability with clients. We have designed many BREEAM-NL certified projects and also supervised their realization. The latter is important to also monitor the actual built sustainability.

In this way we do our utmost to contribute with our advice to the realization of the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Sustainability at Valstar Simonis

Energy transition
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Circularity

In addition to sustainability, we are increasingly trying to include the theme of circularity in our advice and move it higher up the agenda in the industry. Circularity is all about reusing products and materials so that the extraction of new raw materials is no longer necessary. This is to prevent depletion of the earth, unnecessary energy consumption and pollution. Circular design, construction, management and maintenance is not yet self-evident, but fortunately we see the demand coming back more and more often.

A good example of this is the Hogeschool Rotterdam where the old building was sustainably demolished and much of the material could be reused elsewhere. With new construction it is important to properly map out and record the materials used, the so-called materials passport. This makes reuse easier in the future. Throughout the building chain it is therefore important to adapt the way of designing and to cooperate in other ways. We like to think along with you about this.

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Circularity at Valstar Simonis

Materials reuse
Circular design
Materials passport

WHAT ELSE WE DO

A healthy and sustainable world cannot be taken for granted and the challenges are great. Within all aspects of installation advice, we try to contribute to this. The energy transition plays an important role in this but also the reuse of materials, a healthy indoor climate and a well-functioning building.