{"id":2496,"date":"2022-06-13T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruggencampus.nl\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2022-06-13T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:36:34","slug":"symposium-smart-old-new-frontrunners-make-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruggencampus.nl\/en\/symposium-smart-old-new-frontrunners-make-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium ‘Smart, Old & New’ – frontrunners make the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four beautiful circular bridges adorn Floriade Expo 2022. But how do we ensure the upscaling in a replacement order for 85,000 bridges and viaducts in the Netherlands?\u00a0During the Smart, Old & New materials symposium, the participants laid a solid foundation for clients and contractors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker\u00a0and panel participant\u00a0Professor of Sustainable\u00a0Innovation\u00a0Jacqueline Cramer will in any case get to work on the further development of the National Environmental Database. This was one of the concrete action points that participants identified in the brainstorming session to boost the construction of circular bridges. In particular, making information about recycled materials more accessible and transparent for clients and contractors helps in this regard. Data and digitisation are necessary.\u00a0That also contributes to a\u00a0bit of ‘leadership’, said\u00a0the former minister of VROM.<\/p>\n

Professor – Frontrunners determine the future <\/strong>Cramer argued that it is important that frontrunners and the peloton take each other along. In addition, the established order must be convinced of these transitions without compromise. And that is complex, because circular construction is not just a concrete project or product innovation. With regard to bridges, governments do not easily take risks with often uncertified materials for an expensive construction. Then it becomes apparent that frontrunners yet again get things moving by simply developing them. Bottom-up, according to Cramer, because “the frontrunners determine the innovation of the future.” Together with the Amsterdam Economic Board, she has developed a ten-step plan for scaling up, ‘The power of network management; Ten Building Blocks for a Smart, Green and Healthy Amsterdam Metropolitan Area’.<\/p>\n

Excursion – Building back in the city <\/strong>This was also apparent during the morning programme, in which participants visited CIRWINN (Circular and Extraction of Raw Materials). This Almere company \u2013 together with local partners Reimert and Pouw \u2013 has broken, washed and treated concrete rubble from Almere in its sustainable installations for high-quality reuse, with which two of the four Floriade bridges were built. So truly circular. The Beverbrug\u00a0and Brug Rondje Weerwater\u00a0are both constructed with\u00a0this\u00a0cementless geopolymer concrete.\u00a0Director Erik Kijlstra\u00a0of the recycling company and Tjibbe Winkler of the Raw Materials Collective Almere\u00a0hope that\u00a0regional parties\u00a0like this will find each other\u00a0everywhere\u00a0and that\u00a0the Netherlands will become\u00a0a little more sustainable\u00a0every day.<\/p>\n

Symposium – 25% technology, 75% social innovation<\/strong>
\nThe trajectories presented around the\u00a0Smart Circular Bridge\u00a0and\u00a0Second\u00a0Life\u00a0bridge also illustrated that there are areas for improvement when scaling up. Although everyone is enthusiastic about the realization of a circular structure, the continued development depends on affordability. This also requires a healthy dose of empathy from the starting position of a client. Be a partner, not a customer, is the moral. Listen to the client and show him what is possible. Or as up scaling expert Esther Stapper concluded: “25% of the success is in technology, 75% is in social innovation.”\u00a0This concerns the process in which clients and contractors must learn to work together in order to successfully implement the necessary urgencies.<\/p>\n

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