VBI is the Dutch subsidiary of the international Consolis Group, the leading precast concrete solution provider in Europe. The Group provides smart, sustainable precast concrete structures for the transportation, utilities and building sectors in the European and Mediterranean region (21 countries, more than 11,000 employees). The prefabricated products and solutions in building sector include flooring-, framing and wall- and facade elements for residential and non-residential buildings; tunnel segments and bridge beams for infrastructure; and water- and sanitation pipes for underground infrastructures. Consolis Group subsidiaries manufacture prefabricated concrete products at off-site locations in environment-controlled factories. The engineered products are transported to the project-site and assembled to form the final structure. VBI is specialized in and leading producer of prestressed hollow core slabs in The Netherlands. At the moment the VBI Group consists of 7 production companies (5 precast factories, one for polystyrene products and one specialized in steel components and machinery) and the head-office with 2 entities: VBI Verkoopmaatschappij B.V. which holds the Sales, Design and Logistic department for processing the VBI products, and VBI Ontwikkeling B.V. which holds the supporting departments such as: Finance, IT and R&D.

Parma Oy is a Finnish subsidiary of the international Consolis Group, the leading precast concrete solution provider in Europe. The Group provides smart, sustainable precast concrete structures for the transportation, utilities and building sectors in the European and Mediterranean region (21 countries, more than 11,000 employees). The prefabricated products and solutions in building sector include flooring, framing and wall and facade elements for residential and non-residential buildings; tunnel segments and bridge beams for infrastructure; and water- and sanitation pipes for underground infrastructures. Consolis Group subsidiaries manufacture prefabricated concrete products at off-site locations in environment-controlled factories. The engineered products are transported to the project-site and assembled to form the final structure. Parma Oy is the largest producer of precast concrete elements in Finland, with operations in 16 municipalities. The company was founded in its current form in 1993 but has roots spanning over a century. At present, Parma employs more than 650 persons and produces an array of precast concrete element for building and infrastructure construction, including but not limited to hollow-core slabs, wall elements, columns, beams, and balconies.

Strängbetong AB is a Swedish subsidiary of the international Consolis Group, the leading precast concrete solution provider in Europe. The Group provides smart, sustainable precast concrete structures for the transportation, utilities and building sectors in the European and Mediterranean region (21 countries, more than 11,000 employees). The prefabricated products and solutions in building sector include flooring-, framing and wall- and facade elements for residential and non-residential buildings; tunnel segments and bridge beams for infrastructure; and water- and sanitation pipes for underground infrastructures. Consolis Group subsidiaries manufacture prefabricated concrete products at off-site locations in environment-controlled factories. The engineered products are transported to the project-site and assembled to form the final structure. Strängbetong is today the leading company in Sweden to deliver industrially manufactured building systems from idea to final assembly. Our history starts way back in 1939 and today, we employ circa 950 people. We build everything from homes and offices to parking garages, halls and arenas. The starting point is ready-made concepts for each type of building, which we then adapt based on the project’s conditions and the needs you have as a customer. We manufacture the precast concrete elements in our factories, after which we transport the finished elements to the construction site and assemble them.

Lagemaat is (amongst several other core-business activities) a professional demolition and recycling specialist company. The company carries out a full-scale demolition package that includes also design, implementation and recycling of the demolition waste. Lagemaat was founded by Mat Lagemaat in 1977 and the company is headquartered in Heerde, The Netherlands. Since establishment of Lagemaat the focus has been in asbestos removal and building demolition. Demolition projects have become highly valued specialist jobs over the years. Especially industrial demolition works requires more and more specialized expertise. Lagemaat employs about 275 people and is one of the leading demolition companies in The Netherlands, especially in demanding demolition of industrial and large-scale residential real-estate. The company operates all over the Netherlands. Our clients are industry, energy, construction companies and the public sector such as cities, provinces and municipalities. We offer full-service demolition works for our clients. In addition to demolition activities, we offer a wide range of other works such as preparatory work like diamond cutting and asbestos removal. We have asbestos permits, which allows us to do asbestos removal on our sites. Recycling of the crushed concrete is one very important aspect of building demolition works as demolition work generates a lot of concrete. It is good material which can replace and save natural aggregates. When producing concrete-based aggregates, we have invested heavily in the way of processing concrete that we extract from demolition sites. For instance, our Circular Mineral ® process technique enables us to retrieve gravel, sand and cement from demolition concrete as direct alternatives for the virgin raw materials. By re-using precasted concrete one-on-one of course is the most effective way of circular principles in demolition and construction. By freeing up concrete elements from donor buildings and re-using them in constructing new. In our operations, we aim to reduce the environmental impacts in every aspect. We are committed to protect and prevent environmental pollution and continuously upgrade the quality of our environmental operations. We do preventive environmental work and we strive for continuous improvements. In practice, this means that our aim is to improve the demolition business and the environmental impacts. We aim to reduce the amount of waste and continuously enhance recycling efficiency, reduce harmful emissions, increase environmental, and responsibility awareness of staff. As already said, sorting and separation of waste materials is one of the key elements in demolition work. We have done excellent work in recycling because our percentage of recycling and recovery of materials is about 98%.

CIRCULAR STRUCTURAL DESIGN wants to strive the application of circular economy principles in every day’s structural design project. Based on the concept of circular economy CSD explores solutions for the future built environment. It is based on three principles: 1) Design out waste and pollution, 2) Keep products and materials in use and 3) Regenerate natural systems”. CSD acts at the interface between research and practice in various projects with different building types.

The town of Hohenmölsen  (Federal state of Saxony Anhalt) is located in the east of the Burgenland district and borders on the Free State of Saxony. It’s an attractive place to live in the centre of the metropolitan region of Central Germany. Hohenmölsen benefits from its short distances to the centres of Halle, Gera and Leipzig. The urban area covers 75.31 km². In addition to the main town, the urban area comprises 5 villages. As a town full of energy, it offers its approximately 10,000 inhabitants more living, learning and recreation in a rural setting. Hohenmölsen was and still is characterised by brown coal mining for decades. A major transformation process towards a sustainable and CO2-neutral economy and energy supply has begun.

TNO is the largest organisation for multidisciplinary applied scientific research in the Netherland, and a member of the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO). TNO’s mission is to connect people and knowledge to create sustainable innovations that boost the competitive strength of the industry, the excellence of governmental policies, and the well-being of the society. TNO collaborates with public and private partners within 9 research domains, including the most relevant domain for the IM-Safe project: ‘Buildings, Infrastructure and Maritime’. In the Netherlands, TNO enable and support the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, provincial and local authorities, and the construction industry in performing research on road, railway and water infrastructures, including bridges, tunnels and water locks in order to monitor the conditions and optimise maintenance, retrofitting and replacement. TNO has developed and empirically validated predictive models using historical and real-time measurement data as input to provide more accurate and comprehensive insights into the future condition and residual lifespan. This novel condition forecasting has saved costs and prevented traffic disruptions while ensuring safety. In Europe and worldwide, TNO experts are deeply involved in the standardisation organisations in structural and material engineering, asset management and risk/probabilistic analysis related to structural safety, as well as in digitalisation (in particular BIM, Semantic Linked Data, IoT). Whenever necessary, TNO deploys its lab facilities to support controlled and in-depth testing and certification works.