Vandemoortele

“Shaping a tasty future” is the new slogan for Vandemoortele, one of the leading European players in food: margarine, culinary oils and frozen bakery products from bread and croissants to donuts and focaccia. After the acquisition in Italy and the new factory in Poland, the new facility in Belgium, a Food Experience Center (FEC), has now been developed to accommodate the innovation, passion and customer focus.

For the design of the FEC, Bopro, as project manager together with Vandemoortele, drew up a program of requirements so that Vandemoortele’s needs and wishes can be answered in the FEC. Together we appointed a design team that could provide an answer to Vandemoortele’s sustainability requirements. The sustainability factor of the project has been certified by BREEAM during the design phase with an Excellent certificate, whereby Bopro acted as BREEAM assessor and closely followed up the project and monitored the requirements for an Excellent certificate. Bopro and BRE are currently occupied with the post-construction stage.

The entire construction team was appointed by Bopro together with Vandemoortele and the construction was followed up weekly by Bopro as project manager. Bopro has worked at the same level on the construction of the landscape around the Food Experience Center and the demolition of the existing building.