#24 Minne Warmenbol (BUURMAN Antwerpen)
Bao Podcast
English - July 01, 2023 22:05 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBEntrepreneurship Business Technology sustainable architecture antwerp bao living circular construction modular real estate Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For episode 24 of the Bao Podcast, we welcome Minne Warmenbol. Minne is a master in Architecture and co-founded BUURMAN 3 years ago.
BUURMAN Antwerp is a circular construction market where reused building materials from the region are collected, processed and offered. In this way, they offer a logical and local alternative to burning or low-grade recycling of good materials. The materials come from all kinds of different parties - from museums to demolition companies - that are unable to repurpose them within their organisations. A collaboration with Buurman solves a waste problem and a sustainability issue for them at the same time. Apart from used material, they also repurpose uprooted urban trees. These tree trunks are processed into usable wooden planks, instead of being shredded in the regular, low-grade way.
Show notes:
‘Gerooide bomen van Noordkasteel krijgen tweede leven als meubelstuk’
Orin Hardy & Maria Farrugia: Bamboo U
Time stamps:
0:00Intro
3:00The start of Buurman
13:00 Where does the material come from?
17:00 Growth of Buurman
24:00 Biggest learnings
36:30 Sustainability vs. Profitability
40:30 Using the architectural experience in Buurman
43:30 Buurman within 10 years
48:10 Outro