March 31, 2020 – Governments in all countries are taking strong measures to contain the Covid-19 coronavirus and to protect the health of their citizens. Some maintenance companies and suppliers have therefore been forced to close their doors temporarily, which could jeopardize the operational continuity of buildings or organizations.
www.B2Building.help
Therefore, Arcadis design & consultancy agency, software supplier Spacewell, innovation partner Made, and communication partner Social Seeder have together launched the online platform www.B2Building.help. The international platform is a digital reporting point for urgent interventions for companies with a critical mission, such as hospitals, rest homes, retail chains, distribution centres, inter-municipal companies, etc.
The reporting point is also permanently staffed and aims to be the link between these organizations and the maintenance companies and suppliers who can easily register on the platform.
Combined expertise
Arcadis, Spacewell, and Made previously worked together on facility management and consultancy for the maintenance of buildings and infrastructure. They felt there was a need to bring their expertise and connections together in these times of crisis. For the reporting portal and management of workflows, facility management software Axxerion Go!, the turnkey Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) from Spacewell, will be used.
Dirk Vanderlinden: “Both within Arcadis and in cooperation with our partners, we feel that solidarity towards other companies is very high. Using this platform, we hope to relieve critical organizations of potential issues that could compromise their operation, especially when we need them the most during this corona crisis.”
Eric Van Bael: “At Spacewell, we are happy to contribute our FM expertise and software to this platform. In these turbulent times, it will help organizations with a critical mission to ensure operational continuity.”
About Arcadis
Arcadis is the leading global Design & Consultancy for natural and built assets. Applying our deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services we work in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. We are 27,000 people, active in over 70 countries that generate €3.4 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. www.arcadis.com
About Spacewell
Spacewell is part of the Nemetschek Group, a listed software supplier for the architecture, engineering and construction sectors. We help our customers around the world to improve the performance of their building portfolios, make building management more intelligent and improve the user experience through the integration of IWMS, IoT and BIM. Spacewell, that was founded in 1989, currently employs 300 people in 10 locations and has more than 2 million users worldwide.
Sven Toelen
VP Marketing & Communication
T. +32 (0)3 829 04 95 | M. +32 (0)491 34 33 70
Email: sven.toelen@spacewell.com
About Made
Made is a Belgian design & innovation agency that combines insights from human behavior with opportunities in technology and business to create relevant solutions in an actionable way.
Made excites to make things better by continuously pushing for better things, impacting the world with positive changes. For more than 10 years Made has been discovering, designing and building successful digital & physical products and services that have changed the market.
About Social Seeder
Social Seeder is a Belgian scale-up combining a unique software and methodology. Currently more than 250 organizations worldwide thrust Social Seeder to run their employee engagement program.
