SPIE selected by Befimmo to maintain three large office complexes in Brussels, Zaventem and Louvain-la-Neuve

Anderlecht, 19 August 2024 - SPIE Belgium, a subsidiary of the SPIE Group, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, announces the signing of three contracts, which will be executed over the next ten years in Brussels, Zaventem and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. These recently signed contracts cover the maintenance of buildings owned by Befimmo, the largest owner of offices in Belgium and Luxembourg.

In 2020, SPIE Belgium’s Building Services department was awarded an initial maintenance contract by the property operator for the Brederode II building, the technical facilities of which had been installed by the Building Projects division of SPIE Belgium. The following year, building on this first success, Befimmo entrusted SPIE’s Services division with the technical management of its brand new building – the Quatuor, an avant-garde property complex built in the northern district of Brussels.

These initial fruitful collaborations allowed SPIE to gain the trust of Befimmo, which decided to award SPIE three new full guarantee maintenance contracts for:

1. The Ikaros Park property complex in Zaventem, which includes 26 office buildings.
2. The emblematic art deco building Central Gate, which is located in the heart of Brussels and is the headquarters of Befimmo.
3. A new building in Louvain-la-Neuve, the Esprit Courbevoie.

All three sites will benefit from a comprehensive range of maintenance services in several key areas:

• Technical Facility Management: SPIE ensures effective day-to-day management of all the facilities entrusted to it, such as HVAC, sanitary, power and security and access equipment.
• Preventive and predictive maintenance: technicians perform maintenance, control and calibration for the assorted building installations. Buoyed by their experience and continuous training and equipped with comprehensive state-of-the-art instrumentation tools, they minimise failures, increase the life span of equipment, provide an optimal level of safety and convenience for occupants and help to limit energy expenditure in these buildings.
• Corrective maintenance: in the event of a failure, SPIE will repair or replace defective parts.
• Modernisation projects: the replacement or modernisation of certain facilities is also one of the SPIE teams’ many areas of expertise. Such projects are planned within a framework of investment forecasts to benefit the customer and, in some cases, they have a goal of saving energy.

Ikaros Park, a hub of 26 offices in Zaventem

Ikaros Park in Zaventem is a major business hub that covers an area of 45,821 m² and is where a number of leading companies base their activities. The Ikaros Park maintenance contract was initiated on 1 June 2024 and will run until 2034.

The Central Gate office complex in Brussels

The Central Gate office complex, which covers an area of 32,429 m² and is located in the heart of Brussels, is the home of Befimmo and other well-known companies on the Belgian market. SPIE Belgium’s period of maintenance in this building began on 1 July 2024 and is also for a period of ten years.

The Esprit Courbevoie office building in Louvain-la-Neuve

This new building, which was handed over in 2024 and provides a showcase for Befimmo’s hybrid offering of services, includes 4,300 m² of offices and 4,000 m² of coworking space. SPIE started with a technical facility management assignment at the end of the project between late 2023 and the beginning of 2024 and was awarded a maintenance contract for a period of 5 years in April 2024.

Thiry Pierig, Business Unit Manager at SPIE explains: “We are extremely honoured to have been selected by Befimmo to manage property complexes of such quality and scale. We are bringing our technical expertise and know-how to ensure the reliability and sustainability of Befimmo’s facilities and provide state-of-the-art technology to all occupants of these buildings.”

These contracts are a reflection of Befimmo’s renewed confidence in SPIE Belgium to maintain the quality and performance of its infrastructure in Belgium.