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How do we keep real estate with a good indoor climate affordable and sustainable? And how do we give substance to the energy transition? These questions continuously occupy Breman Installation Group and its customers.
"As a national installer, we take our responsibility in this," says Jeroen Geelhoed, Director of Market & Strategy at Breman Installation Group. "In conversation with customers and many employees, we have therefore made some clear choices in our strategy. Two words are central to this: life cycle and energy positive. With the ultimate goal: everyone energy-positive."
Breman's strength lies in the bundling of different areas of expertise, combined with national coverage. Breman is active in residential construction, utilities, residential renovation, service and maintenance, as well as consultancy. With this knowledge and expertise, Breman can provide collective installations for apartment complexes and utility buildings, as well as individual solutions for ground-level new-build homes and smart solutions for existing buildings. And the latter is badly needed for the energy transition.
"With our combination of expertise, we are able to guarantee the entire life cycle of installations for customers," Geelhoed emphasizes. "What we advise from our Energy Transition Knowledge Center, we can also make. And what we make, we can guarantee, service, monitor and maintain. Then we can renovate it over time. To make this happen, our various divisions need to work together even more intensively. That is one of our tasks for the coming years."
The second key word from the Breman strategy is energy positivity for clients, employees and the earth. Under the motto 'Everyone energy-positive', Breman wants employees to be energized by their work and customers and Breman to be mutually energized by the cooperation. Geelhoed: "That means that you really choose for each other and that you enter into a partnership. A partnership based on trust, openness and a focus on results. At the same time, we work on energy positivity in the sense of sustainability. We take our role and responsibility in the energy transition, among other things by contributing to buildings that produce energy."
From a life-cycle perspective, great strides can also be made in the area of circularity, because the rest of the life cycle is already being considered at the design stage. "In the coming years, we will therefore put more and more effort into circularity," continues Geelhoed. "Right now we are investigating the possibility of reusing raw materials and taking back materials." Other choices made by Breman for the near future involve smarter monitoring of installations and increasing personnel capacity with, among other things, educational courses. At the organizational level, Breman is starting a division for home renovation and an installation factory. Geelhoed: "Under the name 'BREiNN, we have also set up an innovation center, with an important issue: how will the Netherlands make eight million homes more sustainable before 2025? What barriers are there? And what solutions? Together with other parties involved, including installers, housing corporations, engineers and sustainability initiatives such as NL2025, we are thinking about this." Breman is also putting its knowledge and practical experience into the market to advise property owners, managers and end users on the energy strategy to be taken.
"With our renewed direction, we are serving our clients even better and more completely," concludes Geelhoed. "We are an installation partner for life, thinking along from A to Z in sustainable, innovative and affordable solutions that connect or anticipate regional and national developments. And in this, we continue to improve ourselves."
