It can be done!
The government has set an ambition to deliver 100,000 new homes every year. At the same time, more and more housing projects are running up against the limits of the electricity grid. How do we ensure that grid congestion does not become a brake on the housing delivery target?
Leontien de Waal of ABN AMRO shares her view on the housing delivery challenge in times of grid congestion, and then goes on to speak with a representative from the public sector and Rudy Grevers of Alklima / Mitsubishi Electric. What choices are needed to accelerate housing delivery and the energy transition at the same time? What role do electrification, smart energy systems and new forms of collaboration play? And how do we ensure that housing projects remain feasible and affordable in the future?
What do we need to change, in design and building services, to ensure that every home and neighbourhood from now on does not put pressure on the electricity grid, but helps relieve it? In short: moving towards homes that are not just grid-congestion proof, but grid-congestion solutions.
Together, they explore how municipalities, provinces, housing associations, developers and market players can already contribute today to delivering 100,000 homes per year. Because the question is not whether we need to build and make things more sustainable, but how we can keep doing so at the same time.
PROVADA winner Michel Baars: 'MOOS will become the ASML of housing construction'
Not a man of one company, but a man of movements. His strength? Not shouting from the sidelines, but starting new companies himself that set the market in motion and challenge existing systems. That's how the jury of the PROVADA Inspiration Award 2026 describes winner Michel Baars. 'Michel gives direction to our entire construction and real estate sector.'
PROVADA 2026: It's a wrap!
For three days, the real estate sector stood shoulder to shoulder at RAI Amsterdam. With a record number of visitors, a packed programme and plenty of energy, PROVADA 2026 was an edition to remember. Below, we look back at the highlights — and at the end you'll find the photos and aftermovie to relive it all.
PROVADA Inspiration Award 2026 for Michel Baars
At PROVADA 2026, the PROVADA Inspiration Award 2026 was presented to Michel Baars. The award is presented annually to an individual who realises sustainable change within the built environment through vision, courage and decisiveness. This year's presentation marks the award's fifth edition.