The Foods Innovation Centre Unilever ‘Hive’ Receives BREEAM Award
The Foods Innovation Centre Unilever ‘Hive’ in Wageningen has been awarded Best New Build Utility at the BREEAM Awards – one of the most important international awards for sustainable construction.
Congratulations to Paul de Ruiter Architects who received the award in London on 10 July.
To stimulate co-creation and exchange of knowledge in the global search for healthy and sustainable foods, Unilever decided to centralise its Foods R&D facilities at a state-of-the-art new Innovation Centre in the Netherlands. The project was commissioned by Unilever and Dura Vermeer and designed by Paul de Ruiter Architects. The interior of the purpose-built facility nicknamed 'Hive' was developed by Fokkema & Partners in close collaboration with the employees.
With a BREEAM-NL Outstanding certification of 93.24%, Hive, located in Wageningen, is the most sustainable laboratory building in the world. Nutritionists, start-ups, researchers, and students collaborate there on the food innovations of the future.
Read more on the Breeam's awards page.
Paul de Ruiter Architects, Dura Vermeer, Lucassen bouwconstructies, Adviesbureau DWA, DGMR, Hollander Techniek, Arcadis, Fokkema & Partners Architecten, MAT25, D&S Process Solutions B.V., Atelier LOOS van VLIET and more.
Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode, and a photo of Paul de Ruiter Architects receiving the award.
