Blue Gate Antwerp Open days 13.10.2011. Partners + location 2.

Blue Gate AntwerpOpen days 13.10.2011

Partners + location

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Key facts

o Development of a brownfield into an industrial siteo Economic programme

- Eco-production

- Research & Development

- Smart logistics

o Timing - Strategic Masterplan: June 2011

- EIA (environmental impact assessment): March 2013

- Sanitation and development: 2013-2015 (first phase)

o Website: www.bluegateantwerp.eu

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Eco-effectiveness

o Materialso infrastructureo building materials

o Water o reduction of consumption, maximal reuse

o Energyo CO2-negative or energypositive

o reduction in consumptiono tuning and exchanging of energy use (smart grid)o energy production (combined heat power, PV, windturbines)

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PPP – Why?

o Knowledge buy in (what the market does better…)

o Greater flexibility (tenders…)o Speeding up of the processo Risk allocationo Financing o Combination of making profit and realising

social goals

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PPP – How?o Blue Gate Antwerp nv

- four government partners

- possibly a private partner <50%

- break even

o Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV’s)- geographical and/or thematic

- partners of Blue Gate Antwerp nv

- private partner(s) >50%

- profit

o Enduser

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PPP – Future challenges

o Guaranteering the initial ambition- legal devices

- charter (scorecard)

- concession or sale?

o Problems- slowing down the process

- how long can you guarantee the ambition?

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Blue Gate AntwerpOpen days 13.10.2011