During the 2010 Building Holland Trade Fair at the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre in Amsterdam, Peter Jägers, Director General of the Dutch Government Buildings Department (Rijksgebouwendienst – RGD) dished out the first Bewuste Bouwers (‘Considerate Constructors') quality marks to initiators BAM, Ballast Nedam, Strukton and VolkerWessels.
Construction sites that received the quality marks
BAM and Ballast Nedam were awarded the quality mark for their construction of JuBi, the new Ministries of Justice and the Interior and Kingdom Relations in The Hague. Strukton was awarded the quality mark for its construction of the Central Station for the North/South Line in Amsterdam. Boele & Van Eesteren, a company owned by VolkerWessels, received the quality mark for building the Netherlands’ most sustainable building – the TNT Green Office in Hoofddorp.
A signal
Launching the quality mark should send a signal to all construction companies in the Netherlands. Starting now, construction companies can register their construction sites for quality mark consideration.
Making professionalism more visible
The Bewuste Bouwers foundation has taken the lead: it hopes to stimulate the construction world. “We hope to make professionalism more visible,” explains Marjolein van Hilten-Koolhaas of the Bewuste Bouwers foundation. She expects the Bewuste Bouwers quality mark to stimulate a higher level of experience interchange within the industry. Van Hilten-Koolhaas: “So many good ideas are available within both large and small-scale construction companies that other businesses could benefit from, serving to continually raise and improve the quality and image of building sites.”