Europe building

The headquarters of the European Council and the Council of the European Union were recently housed in the new ‘Europe Building’ in Brussels.  The building consists of block A of the magnificent Résidence Palace, and a newly-constructed cube that serves as an atrium.

This cube contains a huge lantern that houses the most emblematic rooms (conference room, press room, etc.), which are characterised by a colour design by Georges Meurant.

Following the collaboration with Interbuild (in consortium as BAM Alliance) for the new NATO headquarters, Beddeleem again worked for the general contractor Interbuild (here in consortium with Jan De Nul) for the Résidence Palace.

Beddeleem was entrusted with an important part of the finishing. More than 3,000 m² of our JB CEILING ceiling systems were installed. In order to further sub-divide the rooms and offices, 3,000 m² of JB 2000 partitioning systems and 39,000 m² of plasterboard partitions and ceilings were placed.

Beddeleem’s top achievement, however, was the construction of 150 interpreter booths, including their acoustic high-performance glazing and the cladding of the steel columns with plaster prefabricated elements,  because these booths and the cladding are designed in the special ‘lantern shape’ across the various floors.  This resulted in 600 unique casings and 150 unique cells with matching radius of curvature.