About Revive
Places with a history often offer the greatest potential for the most beautiful future scenarios. Based on this vision, Revive started as a specialist in brownfield development 15 years ago. We transform obsolete and polluted industrial sites into vibrant places to live and work. WATT The Health is therefore much more than a real estate project; it is the blueprint for a lifestyle revolution.
Ecological and social sustainability
Re-use
Re-purpose
Re-store
Re-connect
Social and ecological gains are as important to us as financial success. People, local nature and city should reinforce each other. We do not innovate just to innovate, and we do not demolish just to demolish. We preserve and reuse what is good and sustainably improve what is less good.
From this vision, we have defined four pillars.
Re-use We reuse what is already there. This is about building on underused sites such as empty buildings and recovering materials and pursuing a circular economy.
Re-purpose We repurpose sites, respecting heritage, and leaving existing nature untouched.
Re-store We nature and social restoration.
Re-connect We enhance social cohesion and connection between new residents, nature and local neighbourhoods.
“We build society” is our slogan, and we mean it in the literal sense of the word. In all the projects we develop, we focus on building new residential areas. All facets of housing, living and working are important in this regard. We want to develop warm neighbourhoods where people feel good, help each other and set up social initiatives. Based on the conviction that a project is only truly successful when it is also a good place to live and work, we appoint a community builder for each of our projects who connects. We do this after the construction process, but also before and during the works, through – among other things – temporary site use projects in which everything revolves around connection, creativity and fun.
Respect for the past
We soon realised that these valuable sites often contain valuable buildings that deserve our full attention. Because ‘using first what has been used before’ is still the basic principle in sustainable business. And in doing so, we always start from respect for the past. Preserving and highlighting the valuable (heritage) elements of the sites in our designs is a must, thereby also taking into account the activities that are or were present at the location.
The clinic site in Gentbrugge has been home to health actors for centuries, and we wanted to strengthen that by transforming the place into a healthy, green neighbourhood that serves as a base for healthcare & tech companies.
Meet the team
Julie Daelman
Commercial Executive B2B
Silke Van Damme
Project Developer
Laila De Bruyne
Impact Manager
Benoit Dubrulle
Marketing & Go to market Manager
First ever B Corp Certified real estate developer
Revive was the first Belgian company to be awarded the B Corp certificate, the most objective proof that social and ecological objectives are at least as important as profit. It’s all about “Using Business as a Force For Good”. On our social media channels you can read under #WeGoBeyond what Revive is doing to make the world a better place.