Address Petroleumkaai Antwerpen
Surface 30.000m2 (phase 1), 70.000m2 (phase 2)
Site 5ha
Project description
MCA guides the maritime industry towards greater cooperation and innovation.
For big and small, for maritime and beyond, for private, public, research and education.
Budget Confidential
Project period 2019 – 2024
Delivery phase 2022
Final client CMB
Designers KCAP, Atelier Romain, ABV+
MEP engineering Tractebel
Sustainability Management: WELL, BREEAM, circular economy
On the former BP site in Hoboken, the shipping company Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) is planning the Maritime Campus Antwerp (MCA) – a new hotspot for innovative projects around the broad maritime industry. On the site, several maritime players, government and education will be brought together on one location in order to find answers to the maritime challenges of tomorrow.
A big part of the future business center will be occupied by CMB itself, who will move its current headquarters to the new site. In addition, there will be space for co-working and co-creation facilities, labs, large R&D facilities, studios, educational facilities
and supporting services.
High sustainability ambitions are valid for the project. On site level, the feasibility of the BREEAM Communities certification ‘Outstanding’ is studied and the building itself will obtain the BREEAM label ‘Excellent’ as well as a WELL label ‘Gold’. In terms of climate impact, the aim is to achieve CO2 neutrality. In the first place, this is achieved by a maximum of interventions regarding energy-efficient design on the site itself. Furthermore, the ambitions in material use and flexibility are high and the principles of circular economy are applied as much as possible.
In order to participate in the design of the masterplan, SuReal conducted location studies to be able to optimize the daylight, PV panel yield and summer comfort. Based on this input, choices regarding (BI)PV, location of terraces or other qualitative outdoor places, morphology, distance between the buildings,… can be made.
The energy master plan is currently being finalized, based on the following technologies: limited hydrogen applications (according to Seveso limit), solar energy, geothermal energy and thermal energy from the Scheldt. The application of mid-sized wind turbines is also being investigated.
