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Bouwhub - smart building logistics
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About this good practice
Bouwhub is a logistical hub to minimize the environmental last mile for building projects in innercity building projects. These hubs operate circularly.
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Bouwhub has become profitable in 2018. Before, the lead time and underutilisation led to a loss. The hub provides services to Volker Wessels and other companies. The value proposition is that it helps cities meet their climate quality standards, for the building companies it leads to higher profits
Evidence of success
Reduction of waste: 30%
Reduction of building traffic movements in inner city area’s to 60%
Reuse of packaging material: 50%
Reuse of waste, reuse of leftover building materials: 15% materials recovered is reused
Building area safety
Traffic safety in inner city areas; less trucks in the city centre, efficiency of truck movement through the area
Potential for learning or transfer
Lowering the environmental impact of building is very important. Only in the Netherlands building accounts for 9 billion kilometers of traffic yearly. Depending on the level of automation in the sector, IT already makes a lot of the necessary pull planning possible. The hub has been managed as an enterprise, and that makes the hub viable as a business case, this is necessary to make sure a company hub for a city area will create enough economies of scale.
The company has developed the business model as a white label entity, making it scalable and reproduceable. The use of any hub will benefit the company, so sharing, or making sure every greater city area that belongs to the working area of the builder has a hub, will be beneficial.
As the building sector is both globalized and specifically regional, it is hard to determine how the concept can be rolled out on a European level. The issues met in the Netherlands are not much different those in other European countries.