In 2025, Cordeel and Buurman Antwerpen VZW won the Embuild Foundation Award.

The Embuild Foundation is the social initiative of Embuild, the Belgian Construction Association, recognising construction companies that create value beyond the building site, through partnerships with socially driven organisations.

Buurman Antwerpen gives construction materials a second life and creates employment for people who have been out of work for a long time, are recovering from burnout, or are at risk of dropping out of education entirely.

C-concrete contributed timber beams used for precast transports. Off Site Belgium donated 4 tons of OSB sheets. C-wood provided sheet material and rubberwood beams. C-supply gave deadstock.

At Buurman, these materials are dismantled, sorted, and prepared for circular reuse by the people they employ.

The award came with €10,000, which goes directly into strengthening the social work of Buurman Antwerpen. It is a good example of what happens when circular construction and social employment reinforce each other.

At the Ambiorix site in Tongeren, our largest residential development to date, we launched a partnership with Werfbuur.

They a platform that lets us inform neighbours before site activities start, not after complaints arrive.

If noisy works are planned next week, people know in advance. Werfbuur gives us one central place to communicate at scale, keep a short line between site and community, and handle feedback and questions without things falling through the cracks.

We intend to roll this approach out to other developments and where we build directly alongside existing neighborhoods.