De Grote Beer Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tough building!
The Grote Beer (The Big Bear) is a tough, Rotterdam-style building. The tower consists of four blocks stacked on top of each other with collective roof gardens on each of these blocks.
Completion: october 2022 Client: Dura Vermeer Bouw Zuid West
De Grote Beer Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tough building!
The Grote Beer (The Big Bear) is a tough, Rotterdam-style building. The tower consists of four blocks stacked on top of each other with collective roof gardens on each of these blocks.
Completion:
october 2022
Client:
Dura Vermeer Bouw Zuid West

1. The project: De grote beer (The Big Bear)

Rotterdam is developing into a city with multiple city hearts. The Alexanderknoop, the area around public transport hub Alexander, is one of these city hearts. With good accessibility and all amenities nearby, the Alexanderknoop is an ideal location to live. Right next to the Alexandrium shopping centre, on Grote Beer road, Dura Vermeer Bouw Zuid West has drawn up a plan for a new residential building.

The plan carries 193 rental homes, mostly in the middle segment. With a shortage of this type of housing supply, Dura Vermeer thus offers a real estate solution for starters and single-parent families, among others, who would like to stay in the city.

The Grote Beer (The Big Bear) is a tough, Rotterdam-style building. The tower consists of four blocks stacked on top of each other with collective roof gardens on each of these blocks. The base has a striking volume, which fits in well with the urban context thanks to its extra-high ground floor.

Prefab all the way

A special feature of this project is that Dura Vermeer is going 'Prefab all the way'. Consisting of prefab shell, facades, walls floors and prefab bathrooms and toilets. With good preparation in the development phase, the construction time is significantly reduced and there is as little inconvenience to the surrounding area as possible.

2. Byldis contribution to this project

Byldis took on the complete production of the facade for this project. This means that both the concrete sandwich façade elements with stone strips and the integrated aluminium façades are produced in Byldis' factories and then assembled on site by our client. Besides the fully wind and watertight façade elements, we also produced and/or assembled a number of separate components for the building, such as balcony elements, aluminium curtain walls, etcetera.

3. Why was Byldis chosen? 

Thanks to a number of very pleasant collaborations between Byldis and Dura Vermeer on other projects, we also looked together on this project to see how the façade could be realised at the highest possible quality level to match the set budget.

4. Facts & figures

 The project

 Residential building (193 flats)

 Location

 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 Scope of project

 22 storeys
 68 metres high

 Byldis contribution

 

 

 

 
  • 341 Sandwich façade elements including stone strips
  • 94 m1 eaves with stone strips
  • 305 m2 single-shell façade elements
  • 196 m1 planter elements
  • 125 balcony elements
  • Aluminium frames for sandwich façade elements
  • Aluminium frames for in-situ assembly
  • Aluminium water layers, frames and covers
  • Curtain wall elements

 Byldis expertise involved

 Byldis total concept (Engineering, precast concrete, aluminium facades)

 Start production Byldis

 march 2022

 Start assembly Byldis

 february 2023

 Completion Byldis

 october 2023

 Client

 Dura Vermeer Bouw Zuid West BV

 Architect

  Klunder Architecten

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