Bao Podcast

Every month, we invite a guest on the Bao Podcast who's active in the construction industry. With our guests, we discuss the latest evolutions and the future of this interesting industry. Want to learn more about Bao Living? Visit https://en.baoliving.com/

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#10 Jan Kriekels (Jaga)

After a short winter break, we’re back with a bang! For our tenth podcast episode, our guest is Jan Kriekels. Jan is the owner of Jaga Climate Designers, a radiator manufacturer using innovative heating and cooling technologies. Jaga employs over 600 people and operates in over 35 countries across the globe. Under his leadership, the company has won a great many international design and export awards. Among many other big projects, they are the company behind the innovative heating technology in...

Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 12 min

#9 Hans Verboven (Sustacon)

Hans is the founder and owner of Sustacon. With Sustacon, he advises Flemish family businesses on (among other things) strategy, organizational development, and sustainability. They are specialized in helping companies to work more sustainably in the construction sector, but they also advise companies in other industries. Besides his work at Sustacon, Hans is a part-time professor in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics at the University of Antwerp. For more information, please vi...

Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 9 min

#8 Rik Neven (Architectura.be, Circubuild.be)

Rik is the founder of editorial office Palindroom, specialized in writing articles on construction and architecture. With Palindroom he creates websites where they publish the latest news about the construction industry. One of these websites, architectura.be, is the most visited architecture website in Belgium! Rik also has his own podcast, the ‘Architectura.be Podcast’ where he invites Belgian architects to share their vision. He’s also very passionate about circular construction and started f...

Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 6 min

#7 Jona Michiels (Groep Van Roey)

Jona is Innovation Manager at the well know construction company Groep Van Roey. With 11 companies in this group, They are a specialist in total solutions for the construction industry, they develop projects from start to finish. On top of this they are probably also one of the oldest companies in Belgium: Groep Van Roey was founded in 1760, which makes them 281 years old! For more information, please visit https://www.groepvanroey.be/nl.

Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 11 min

#6 Chris Van de Voorde (JuuNoo)

Chris is the founder of JuuNoo. This company has developed a circular interior wall, it’s a wall that is not demolished at the end of its life but gets dismantled and repositioned as a new wall. Chris started JuuNoo 5 years ago, with one specific goal in mind: to stop building waste created by interior walls. Currently, they are actively conquering the Belgian market, but their ambitions also extend abroad. For more information, please visit https://www.juunoo.com/.

Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min

#5 Serge de Gheldere (Klimaatzaak vzw & Futureproofed)

Serge is a “climate ambassador” of Al Gore, initiator of the climate case against Belgium (which he and his colleagues have won), and founder & CEO at Futureproofed. The mission of Futureproofed is to help businesses and cities become ‘futureproof’ by helping them reduce their CO2 emissions while saving costs, driving innovation, and becoming more attractive. Two branches of Futureproofed are working towards this goal: FutureproofedCities is a software platform that connects over 145 municip...

Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min

#4 Sunita Van Heers (SuReal)

Sunita is the founder and managing director of SuReal. SuReal is a consultancy firm that supports companies and government agencies in making buildings and city projects more sustainable. To reach this goal, they do all types of studies. One of the projects they already worked on is the Victoria reconversion project in Brussels, which’s been developed by DWNTWN Real Estate & Baltisse. For more information, please visit https://sureal.be/ .

Jul 07, 2021•56 min

#3 Arne Allewaert (AMAVI Capital)

Arne is the co-founder of AMAVI Capital. AMAVI is an independent pan-European investor, established to support the growth of the leading and most promising companies active in the European Proptech industry. AMAVI bridges the gap between the traditional real estate industry on the one hand and the most groundbreaking Proptech scale-ups on the other. For more information, please visit https://amavi.capital/.

Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min

#2 Bart Verheyen (Stramien)

Bart is the co-founder of Stramien Architects. This is a multidisciplinary design agency focused on architecture, urban development, spatial planning, and the design of public spaces. They have existed for more than than 20 years at this point and have designed some great projects like the Thomas More campus in Mechelen, Ringland, and more recently the railroad park in Borgerhout.

May 24, 2021•59 min

#1 Idriss Goossens (PropTech Lab Belgium)

Idriss is the founder of PropTech Lab, a Belgian community for real estate innovators. Since Proptechlab's founding in 2017, already 160 enterprises linked to construction joined PropTech Lab. Of these 160 members, 96 are start-ups and 64 well-established construction companies.

May 24, 2021•1 hr 6 min

#0 Introduction

Your host Benjamin speaks in this short introduction about the Bao Podcast and the enterprise behind it: Bao Living.

May 24, 2021•1 min

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