Two landmark office-tower refurbs in the Belgian capital saved thousands of tonnes of waste and emissions, and showed developers’ appetite for ‘urban mining’. GCR went to investigate Amid the torrent…

Solar panels on an office building in the centre of Brussels caught fire on Tuesday, according to the city’s fire brigade and local media. The fire happened around 2pm in…

The Flemish government will contribute €200m to the more than €1bn cost of building the Einstein Telescope – a massive device about 300m underground that will record the passing of…

Utility-scale battery developer Giga Storage has hired Sweco to design what will be one of continental Europe’s biggest battery parks in Belgium. The so-called Green Turtle battery park will have…

The city of Ghent and the regional government of Flanders have launched a two-year project to make nature-inclusive construction the new normal in Belgium.

Work has begun on the main section of a broad-gauge, 107km-long canal for super-barges in France that is intended to significantly improve freight flows between France, Belgium and the Netherlands,…

The historic Botanic Garden in the Belgian municipality of Meise has unveiled a hyperboloid visitor pavilion designed by Gent-based practice NU Architectuuratelier. The 2,300-sq-m building is constructed using Kebony modified…

The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre has started building a €1.6bn research reactor to replace its ageing BR2 reactor in Mol, near Antwerp. Called “Myrrha”, it’ll be used for research into…

Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North Sea. The planned Princess Elisabeth Island, which…

UK studio David Kohn Architects, Belgium’s noAarchitecten and Turkey’s Asli Çiçek have won an international design competition for a €90m renovation for the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent,…

A joint venture of contractors last week started the complex job of building a double-deck road tunnel under the Albert Canal in Antwerp, Belgium. It will consist of a pair…

Six international design teams have been made it to the final stage of a competition to design an extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. About 50 practices…

Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…

Belgian contractor Besix started work this month on a €31m project to replace all seven railway level crossings in the Belgian city of Bilzen. Over three years, it will use…

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has used battery power to slide an 850-tonne concrete tunnel section into place under railway tracks in Belgium. It took less than an hour to slide the…

A former industrial site will be transformed by Dutch architect KCAP into a kilometer-long urban housing development within a park. The Rinkkaai project is located 400m from Ghent’s central Gent-Sint-Peters…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced financing of €475m to upgrade Brussels’ north to south tram system. The money will, among other things, be used to build a tunnel…

Indoor ski slope SnowWorld Antwerp in Belgium has put 1,452 solar panels on its vast roof. The transformation came about after SnowWorld rented its roof to solar company Energy Vision,…