Circular Project

Prologis’ Leap Towards Circular Warehouses

Prologis is one of the leading sustainable real estate companies in the world. An important new aspect of their work in the sustainable use of construction materials is circularity. Everything within the brand new Prologis Park Waalwijk DC3 - partly rented by Tarkett – is cradle-to-cradle (C2C). This Distribution Center is constructed with 20 to 30% circular, biobased or C2C materials. Everything has been created with circularity in mind: easy to dismantle and reuse, supported by a material passport. This project is the integrated approach of three components: BREEAM, WELL and, of course, circularity.

Facts About DC3 at Prologis Waalwijk

Data as of March 31, 2020, for land owned and under option, as well as assets the company owned or had investments in, on a wholly owned basis or through co-investment ventures, properties and development projects.

26,000

square meters plot

23,500

square meters of logistics space

2,000

quare meters of mezzanine

600

square meters of office

24

docks

Circular Toolbox

Together with partners DoepelStrijkers and M3E, Prologis developed a new way of working for all warehouse construction from this point on. The secret? The Circular Toolbox. The toolbox explains the difference between circularity, cradle-to-cradle and degradable resources and what a Material Passport entails. It also explains how these practices can be implemented. This way of working makes Prologis Park Waalwijk DC3 a prime example of how you can use circularity in your building. Circular eyecatchers? With the help of Erik Koremans (New Horizon) the separation walls are a one-on-one reutilization of materials that come from an old dental office. The floors are made from old fishing nets and calsium which is a waste product from the nearby water treatment facility. The starting point for this project was the question: where can we make the difference today? It made Prologis Park Waalwijk DC3 the new standard for circular building.

Project Overview

In May 2020, Prologis delivered a partly built-to-suit, partly speculative distribution center of approximately 26,000 (unit A and B) square meters for Tarkett in the Netherlands. This circular project was extra special because of the speed in which it was developed. The Prologis Park Waalwijk DC3 project was initiated in April 2019 as merely a sketch drawing and was delivered at the beginning of May 2020. BREEAM, WELL and Circular standards were implemented inside and out.

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