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A-03 — StudioVeerhaven, Rotterdam

A small firmfor largeambitions.

Board-marked concrete walls and a deep cantilevered slab framing a view of the sea and distant hills
Fig. 01 — Concrete, light and a view to the waterCast in place
01 — Founding storySince 1994

We started with one concrete mixer, one borrowed van and a harbour warehouse nobody else would touch.

Vale Stoneworks was founded in Rotterdam in 1994 by a structural engineer and a cabinetmaker who had trained as an architect. Their first job was rebuilding a collapsed grain warehouse in Delfshaven. It took eleven months, and it is still standing, now as a primary school.

Thirty-one years later we are forty-six people: engineers, site managers, carpenters and architects who work as one team from the first survey to the final coat of oil. We still gather on every site on the day the frame is topped out.

Fig. 02 — Our first job, drawn from the 1994 surveyDelfshaven, Rotterdam
Founded in Rotterdam
1994
People, one team
46
Workshops and yards
3
Countries built in
7
02 — PrinciplesFour rules, no exceptions
  1. 01

    Measure twice, build once.

    Every set-out is checked by a second surveyor before concrete is ordered. Mistakes are cheapest on paper.

  2. 02

    Craft over speed.

    We plan programmes that leave room for the work to be done properly, and then we keep to them.

  3. 03

    Honest cost, no surprises.

    Open-book pricing from the first estimate. Every change is priced in writing before it is built.

  4. 04

    Leave the site cleaner than we found it.

    Ninety-four percent of our site waste is reused or recycled, and the neighbours get the street back swept.

03 — Credentials

Certified, insured and audited every year. Copies of every certificate are available on request.

  • ISO 9001:2015Quality management
  • ISO 14001:2015Environmental management
  • ISO 45001:2018Occupational health and safety
  • VCA**Safety, health and environment for contractors
  • PHIPassivhaus Certified Builders
  • CIOBChartered Building Company
  • Bouwend NLMember, Dutch building industry association
  • Insured€25M public liability, €10M professional indemnity
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