Rob Buren

Rob Buren is an expert at Bouwlab R&Do and is also affiliated with the Expert Team for Housing Construction at RVO. He helps public and private parties realize their ambitions to accelerate housing construction. He works closely with startups and scale-ups and is not hesitant to seek new insights from and with students. Curiosity about what helps is the main driver in his functioning.

Bouwlab is an inspiring field lab for the digitalization and industrialization of construction. BouwLab proudly calls itself ‘BouwLab R&Do’. Unlike R&D, R&Do is also about 'doing'. What the construction industry needs is a place to quickly and informally start working with innovative new technologies and concepts without rules. Bouwlab is the creator of the blueprint for the digital construction chain "Building Symphony," which integrates the development, realization, and management phases. BouwLab is a unique place where public and private parties from the construction sector come together to experiment, co-create, share knowledge, and develop talents. It provides access to the latest technologies, such as robots and digital fabrication techniques. BouwLab is also an experimental space for circular and bio-based building, contributing to solutions for the major current challenges in construction.