Inspiration Award 2026 - Cast Your Vote!
The nominees for the PROVADA Inspiration Award 2026 have been announced! Three inspiring professionals who are truly making a difference in the industry are competing for the title. Meet the nominees:
The Netherlands has more than 847,000 stairwell flat apartment blocks, and they are technically and organisationally difficult to make more sustainable. To speed up this process, seven housing associations from Sociale Verhuurders Haaglanden will build a one-of-a-kind stairwell flat apartment block from the 1950s and 1960s at The Green Village, where, together with actual residents, they will test innovative solutions and then apply them in their own stairwell flat apartment blocks. In this way, we make the business case for a successful renovation of the stairwell flat apartment block feasible, and we raise the bar as high as possible.
On the way to a Paris-Proof apartment block stairwell flat by 2030!
In this session, we will discuss with housing associations and construction parties what makes stairwell flats so complicated to renovate. Together with Den Haag Zuidwest, we look at the complexity of the energy transition for the existing housing stock, and Professor Andy van den Dobbelsteen explains why innovations are urgently needed to make this enormous challenge a reality.
There is also attention for innovations that are tested at The Green Village, including the biobased renovation facade of VORM.
Everyone is welcome to drop in to this session.
Do you want to know more about these innovations? At the Innovation Café, you can speak to experts on all trade fair days about the innovations and developments in projects and Innovation Labs.

The nominees for the PROVADA Inspiration Award 2026 have been announced! Three inspiring professionals who are truly making a difference in the industry are competing for the title. Meet the nominees:

On Tuesday 9 June at 10:00 AM, PROVADA will be officially opened by Lieutenant General Dick van Ingen, Deputy Director-General of Policy at the Ministry of Defence. Through his contribution, PROVADA underlines the current and growing intersections between Defence and the real estate sector.

During PROVADA, BouwLab R&Do and The Green Village will be providing the content programming for the Innovation Café. In collaboration with partners BPD, COD and VORM, and the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, and the DMI Ecosystem, one central question takes the lead: how do we move innovation faster from idea to application?

The fiscal threshold for foreign pension funds and insurers to invest in the Dutch housing market must be significantly lowered. That is the view of Mark Siezen, CEO of asset manager Bouwinvest. 'Foreign capital is absolutely essential to meet the enormous housing construction challenge. That requires a stable housing policy and fiscal climate. I am hopeful: the new minister recognises this and will act on it.'

Following the earlier announcement of the launch of the International Investment Day, PROVADA now presents the full programme for Thursday, 11 June 2026. As the largest real estate exhibition in the Netherlands, PROVADA brings together leading market parties for a day of insights, discussion and networking. The newly introduced international investment programme—developed in collaboration with INREV, Holland Metropole and the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning—offers international investors direct access to key developments, policy perspectives and investment opportunities in the Dutch market.

Visiting PROVADA? Please be aware that it can get busy around the RAI. Due to multiple large events taking place at the same time, the RAI parking facilities often fill up early.