Special project: Blokhuispoort in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands)
De Blokhuispoort is a cultural business center that is located in the center of Leeuwarden in The Netherlands. Where in the past detainees were located, now the creative minds, of young people, building there new companies, are in charge. In an inspiring environment, around 100 creative people work separately but also often together. Beautiful products are made and special services are provided.
The renovation of the Blokhuispoort is an ongoing process in which we started placing the glass walls for phase 1 at the beginning of 2017. In 2018 we will also install glass wall systems in this special building in phases. The project is being picked up by Bart Meester (project leader) and Peter Spaanderman (project preparer).
Credits:
Customer: Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma
Salesman: Ron den Otter
Project Manager: Enrico van de Voorde, Kees Egberts and Robin Durieux.
Project preparation : Robin Durieux
Assembly of equipe (s): STN Assembly; Swen ten Noever and Louis Ansi.
Transport and Unloading Team: Qtrans
Super fast delivery
Recently, on the 5th December 2017, Van Asperdt Maintenance and Management from Eindhoven received an order to place our walls in the DPD office. With Theo Vos as project manager, we immediately set to work; measure and sketch the space.
At QbiQ we do everything ourselves, including the cutting and grinding of the glass. That’s why we were able to switch quickly. The walls were placed on the first and second floor. The preliminary work, the transport and the assembly were very flexible.
This week, Dennie Blom and Marcel Vis complete the project and deliver it to the customer. Given the super short turnaround time of a month, we have delivered top work with all disciplines. QbiQ: fast and flexible!
Historical project in Delft The Neterlands
In a partially historical building in the center of Delft, a modern and functional working environment was created while retaining the original character. Partly due to the application of a total of 191 m2 IQ-Pro and IQ Structural system walls (part of which with Triple glass).
These system walls (which are provided with black profiles and a transparent foil with a vector design) create a balanced contrast in this beautiful historic building. RAL 7021 (black gray) has been chosen as the color.
The installed doors are of type KDG-100. This concerns a flush door where the glass is glued to the outside of the door. This creates a door to the thickness of the wall whereby the glass of the door is in line with the glass of the walls.
More details about this project can be found on our portfolio page.
Transformation of a monumental building
B30 is the former housing of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in The Hague in The Netherlands. The monumental building was ready for a modern metamorphosis. Glass walls can not be overlooked. It has been a year since we delivered this wonderful project.
The building was built in 1917 by Daniel E.C. Knuttel and has been taken care of by KAAN architects. It is now a modern working environment for the employees of five government institutions. The new interior has an open and inviting appearance.
More photos of this fabulous project can de found here.
QbiQ goes USA
After successful expansion within Europe in countries such as Belgium and Switzerland, it is now time to go to America’s. On the other side of the Atlantic, the first projects on the East Coast have been sold. The glass partitions walls of QbiQ will be placed in cities such as Miami and New York.
“The American customers are charmed by our minimalistic walls systems with a high luxurious appearance” says Michel van Velsen, responsible for export at QbiQ in The Netherlands. “Besides that, we produce everything ourselves and are very flexible to the market, especially for delivery times”.
America, here we come!
Sterk werk in België
We hebben ook klanten buiten Nederland. We werken momenteel voor het bedrijf iPower in België. Dit bedrijf houdt zich bezig met Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Dit zorgt ervoor dat er meer bezoekers op een website komen en dat de conversie wordt verhoogd.
Bij iPower hebben we drie systeemwanden geplaatst met geluidsreductie tot RW 41dB, twee aluminium kozijndeuren met glas en een speciale uitsparing voor de kabelmaat.
Het project werd getekend door Floris Groenewegen, in elkaar gezet door Partrick Box en verkocht door Wouter Meyvis (QbiQ Wall Systems BVBA, België).
Food Centre goes 100% circular with QbiQ modular walls
Food Centre in The Hague is going to move and will not only move the organisation, but also the modular walls. In addition, several new walls made of “waste glass” will be supplied on the basis of usufruct instead of purchased. This way, Food Centre wants to offer its contribution to the circular economy.
Modular walls move too
In the circular economy discarded products are converted into raw material so new products can be made. The Food Centre takes things a step further, and does this by moving the modular walls from the present building to the new location.
In cooperation with LIAG architects and building consultants from The Hague, QbiQ carried out extensive research to determine how the existing walls could best be repositioned. “The greatest challenge is ensuring that the height of the existing wall didn’t form an obstruction for placement in the new office” says Kim Zandbergen, managing director of QbiQ. “After all, we cannot simply change the height of the existing wall.”
By entirely reusing modular walls this way, not only the environment is unburdened, it also saves a lot of costs.
Walls made of “waste glass”
The moved walls didn’t suffice to furnish the new location. New glass walls need to be added.
In order to ensure that the new glass walls are as circular as possible, the decision was made to make them out of “waste glass”. During the production of glass modular walls, glass panels are cut from so-called jumbo windows. Strips of glass always remain. These strips are the cutting waste. The cutting waste is usually offered for recycling for the manufacture of new glass. In this project it was decided to make the new walls using cutting waste glass. The wall will consist of several glass panels with varying colours, transparency and width.
100% circular
Circular entrepreneurship is a major issue for QbiQ. QbiQ has been Cradle to Cradle certified for more than two years. This certificate indicates undisputedly that no toxic substances are used in coatings and that the materials used can be efficiently reused.
QbiQ introduced a new concept to stimulate the reuse of the modular walls. In this concept QbiQ remains the owner of the glass and modular walls and after use, for instance after seven years, it can dismantle the walls and recycle them. This enables QbiQ to guarantee that the walls are reused 100%. “This is what the ultimate circular economy looks like”, says Kim. “We manufacture the modular walls and eventually ensure that they are transformed into new raw material. It simply doesn’t get any better.”
Modular walls based on usufruct
For the user of the glass and modular walls this concept offers an important additional advantage and that is that the walls can be bought on the basis of “usufruct”. Instead of placing the walls immediately and paying for them in full, an annual amount is charged for their use. This is done for a predetermined period. After this period it is decided in consultation whether the use should continue or whether the walls will be recycled.
Do you also want a 100% circular system wall on the basis of usufruct? Then contact us by phone on +31 88 5010500 or e-mail info@qbiq.nl
Not inside, but outside
This picture was taken last week at the new location of the Nutrition Center in The Hague (NL) around 8:00 am. Here we are working on a project. Our colleague Richard van Ham is in the bin of the telehandler.
Indispensable
With a telehandler our walls are brought to the right floor. This vertical transportation must be done almost every time on the outside of the building because the existing elevators inside the building are not big enough to keep the 6-meter-long profiles and 270cm to 300cm high glass panels.
A telehandler is best machine to raise our wall parts to higher floors. First an opening in the façade is created. This is usually done by removing a window of a facade panel. Then the wall components are brought up with a tray to the façade opening, where the container is emptied by hand by our own unloading teams.
At great challenge at VTS transport
QbiQ is currently installing high end modular walls at VTS transport in Boxmeer on three floors. In order to meet the latest safety standards, the stairwell of the offices is separated with iQ-PROTECT walls with S200 smoke protection glass. A few facts about this wonderful project:
- Placing walls on three floors
- In total more than 300 m² glass modular walls iQ-PRO and iQ- SINGLE
- Of which more than 60 m² in iQ PROTECT. This is a 20-minute smoke protection glass wall, provided with S200 certified glass.
- Architect: Pepers architects.
- Contractor: Van der Ven Bouwbedrijf in Veghel.
Cradle to Cradle Café ‘Built Positive’ well attended
During Dutch Design Week the C2C seminar “C2C and Built Positive” in the Natlab in Eindhoven on Monday 23 October was well attended by architects.
It mainly focused on the process of thinking and designing differently and taking initiative in the area of choice of material and cooperation, so the materials used in a building can be resold and reused. Also, for instance, the exchange of energy so heat that is released at a data centre is used to heat local houses.
The passion for change begins with the individual and is gradually passed on to the whole group. We are happy that QbiQ can contribute to more sustainability in our sector.
