Conference & dinner location

Important: Please note that we have an extensive shuttle service during this year’s Annual Meeting, please refer to the tab ‘Mobility’ for more information.

Conference

The BESIX Group Annual Meeting 2026 conference will be held at Vestar.

Address: Lamorinierestraat 53, 2018 Antwerp (Belgium)

Vestar has a car park with 150 spots available.
 

Dinner

The dinner will be hosted at Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp, Lange Gasthuisstraat 45, 2000 Antwerp.
The venue has limited parking spaces. We recommend parking in one of the public car parks nearby.

These are the car parks nearby Botanic Sanctuary:

• Interparking Oudaen, Antwerp: Oudaan 3, 2000 Antwerp. 3-5 minutes walking distance.
• Indigo Parking Nationale Bank: Britselei 9, 2000 Antwerp. 5 minutes walking distance.

Programme

The timing is indicative and subject to minor change.

Thursday 19 March

07h30 - Welcome coffee at Vestar
08h00 - Start of the conference at Vestar
18h15 - Estimated end of the conference
19h00 - Cocktail, Dinner & Open Bar at Botanic Sanctuary

Friday 20 March

09h00 - Site visits in Antwerp
12h00 - Closing lunch on site

Accommodation

During the BESIX Group Annual Meeting 2026, the overnight stays will be at the Hotel NH Collection Antwerp Centre.

Address: Pelikaanstraat 84, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgique

During the pre-registration period in December and January, you already provided your hotel requirements. Please refer to the tab ‘Register’ for more details.

The hotel has limited parking spots. We recommend parking in one of the public car parks in the neighbourhood. These are the recommended car parks:

• Indigo Parking Diamant: Appelmansstraat 25, 2018 Antwerp.
  3-5 minutes walking distance from the hotel.
• Interparking Centraal Antwerp: Van Immerseelstraat 2, 2018 Antwerp.
  5-7 minutes walking distance from the hotel.
   

Site visits

On Friday 20 March, you will have the opportunity to visit one of the following three project sites:

• ROCO – Oosterweel junction (Antwerp): max. 50 participants.
• COTU – Oosterweel junction (Antwerp): max. 50 participants.
• Karel de Grote Hogeschool / De Meir (Antwerp): max. 40 participants.

You can register for these site visits via the tab ‘Register’. Please respect the efforts of your colleagues to organize these site visits by only registering if you are actually planning to attend the visit.

The site tours will be given in either Dutch or English. Please bring your own safety gear (shoes, helmet, high visibility jacket). For those coming from abroad, please indicate which safety gear you need in the registration form.

Due to limited parking options on all three sites, it is mandatory to join the shuttle service to the sites. The shuttles leave at 9h at the hotel NH Collection Centre Antwerp. After the site visit, you will be able to enjoy a lunch on site before returning back to the hotel by shuttle.

ROCO – Oosterweel junction (Antwerp)

Due to the complexity of the Oosterweel Junction, the project has been divided into several subprojects. JV ROCO (incl. BESIX and BESIX Infra) is responsible for the largest section: Lot 3B on the right bank of the city of Antwerp. Their mission is to complete the northern section of the Ring by constructing the Canal Tunnels. It also includes dismantling the iconic Merksem viaduct to make way for a sunken ring road that will seamlessly connect neighborhoods and create a modern, green urban zone. Visitors will be able to visit several parts of this huge site, also coined “the infrastructure site of the century” in Flanders. Multiple BESIX Group entities are contributing to this project, including BESIX, BESIX Infra, BESIX Unitec and Franki Foundations.

COTU – Oosterweel junction (Antwerp)

JV COTU is responsible for the Scheldt Tunnel, a pivotal component of the Oosterweel junction in Antwerp. The Scheldt tunnel will connect Antwerp’s left and right banks. The tunnel is being built via the immersed tunnel method. The eight elements were constructed in a dry dock in Zeebrugge, and towed via the North Sea and the River Scheldt to their final destination. At the moment of the visit, all elements have been immersed and visitors will be able to discover parts of the immersed tunnel. Multiple BESIX Group entities are contributing to this project, including BESIX, BESIX Infra, BESIX Unitec, Franki Foundations and BESIX Steel & Formwork.

Karel de Grote Hogeschool / De Meir (Antwerp)

Visitors will be able to see a mixed new construction and renovation project which will result in a sustainable college campus and a prestigious retail complex. BESIX and its JV partner WYCOR are constructing 3 new buildings and renovating 3 existing ones. The combination of renovation and new construction is not an easy task. Priority is given to preserving the heritage, while the new buildings will be seamlessly integrated with the surrounding historical buildings. To this end, characteristic stately façades are preserved, along with the high ceilings, authentic glass panes and brutalist architecture from 1970.

Mobility

Because the hotel, conference location and dinner location are not always within walking distance, we have foreseen several shuttle services during this year’s Annual Meeting.

Before the conference:

• Shuttle service from the hotel to Vestar (conference location): 7h30

After the conference:

• Shuttle service from Vestar (conference location) directly to Botanic Sanctuary (dinner location): immediately after the end of the conference.

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• Shuttle service from the hotel NH Collection Centre to Botanic Sanctuary (dinner location): 18h30 (estimated timing, depending on the end of the conference).

After dinner:

• Shuttle service from Botanic Sanctuary to hotel NH Collection Centre: 22h30, 23h and 23h30.

The shuttle service that is most interesting for you depends on which hotel nights you’ve booked.

If you’ve booked two or more hotel nights (nights of 18, 19 and/or 20 March):
Your best option in terms of mobility is to park your car in a public car park close to the hotel on Wednesday 18 March and check in to the hotel.

On Thursday morning, you can either walk to the conference location (10 minutes’ walk) or take the shuttle bus from the hotel to the conference location.
After the conference, you can take the shuttle from the conference location directly to the dinner venue. After dinner you can take one of the three shuttles foreseen back to the hotel. If you miss these shuttles, we invite you to walk back to the hotel or take a taxi.

If you’ve booked only one night at the hotel before the conference (night of 18 March):
Your best option in terms of mobility is to park your car in a public car park close to the hotel on Wednesday 18 March and check in to the hotel. On Thursday, you can either:

• Walk to the conference location or take the shuttle bus from the hotel to the conference location before the conference. After the conference, you can take the shuttle bus directly to the dinner venue. After dinner, you can then take the shuttle bus to the hotel and pick up your car to drive home.
  
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• Drive to the conference location from the hotel and park at the car park of Vestar. After the conference, you can then drive to the dinner venue, Botanic Sanctuary. We suggest parking your car in one of the public car parks nearby.

If you’ve booked only one night at the hotel after the conference (night of 19 March):
Your best option in terms of mobility is to park your car at Vestar (the conference location) on Thursday morning. After the conference, please take your car to drive to the hotel. Park in one of the public car parks nearby and check in to the hotel. Then take the shuttle service from the hotel to the dinner location. After dinner you can take one of the three shuttles foreseen back to the hotel. If you miss these shuttles, we invite you to walk back to the hotel or take a taxi.

If you haven’t booked any nights at the hotel:
Your best option is to drive directly from location to location. Before the conference, park your car at Vestar. After the conference, drive to Botanic Sanctuary. We suggest parking your car in one of the public car parks nearby.