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Research and development
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BESIX Clean Air
BESIX Clean Air is an innovation project making air-filtering panels with moss. These are aimed to locally reduce the fine dust concentrations and improve the overall air quality.
Panel development
The panels were developed by BESIX employees in collaboration with BESIX Environment, and with the decisive help of Innoviris (Brussels agency for innovation), which subsidised the project, the University of Antwerp, the University of Liège and Achilles Design.
New materials
BESIX participates in several research projects. These include the creation of sustainable and recycled concretes with the University of Ghent and the Block Research Group of ETH Zurich, innovative concretes (such as the European Smartincs project for self-healing concretes, for which BESIX is 'Industrial Mentor') or the recycling of asphalt via BESIX Infra.
An example of this type of collaboration is the circular pedestrian bridge that BESIX is building for the A16 project in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The design was carried out by BESIX Engineering and the Block Research Group. It focuses on the principles of "strength through geometry", which means that no reinforcement is needed. For the construction, they designed a flexible formwork system, a textile made of recycled and natural fibres, which is easy and quick to assemble. The concrete itself is innovative. It is "green concrete", i.e. made from recycled concrete. Thanks to its structure, the bridge will use less material, thus reducing the addition of cement.
3D Green Concrete
3D2BGreen (2019-2022) is a research project on 3D printing of concrete, set up by Ghent University, BESIX, the start-up ResourceFull and the engineering company Witteveen+Bos. The research focuses on the development of sustainable concrete mixes suitable for printing units specifically for marine works.
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