Visit of the new offices / private jet terminal of ASL Group in Liège, Belgium

35 professionals from various industries met in Liege on 05/05/2022 to visit the new office building and private jet terminal from ASL Group. Building Office Buildings and the private jet operator organized the event which also included a networking dinner

One of the contractor showed us the different rooms of the building and the hangar and told us some interesting anecdotes about the construction of the building :

For instance, a lot of time was wasted to get the permit and the zoning from the City and the power source was still located several kilometers away from the building even after the opening (28 months from initial request to the power company to bring the power directly to the building!).

The windows you can see on the picture also came late, forcing the workers to start laying the tiles in the wind.

In the hangar, the roof was assembled under heavy snow.

Werner Bullen, director of Building Office Buildings then spoke for a few minutes to thanks ASL for the warm welcome in their facilities and also showed us a presentation video about the purposes of his organization : to help build healthy offices, to have happy people and eventually sucessuful businesses.

Next events that will be organized by Building Office Buildings : a 2-day visit in Luxembourg (Cloche d’Or and Belval), the newly renovated city hall in Antwerp, Netherlands and a tour of Muscat, Oman

Philippe Bodson, founder and CEO of ASL Group presented us his company that he founded 25 years ago. From one plane in 1997, ASL now own 45 aircrafts of small and medium sizes and is able to deliver many additional services (travel agency, planes and parts brokering, medical airplanes, semi-private flights to Innsbruck in the winter and Ibiza in the summer, flying academy…) with an annual turnover of €75M in 2021.

Christian Delcourt from Liege Airport gave us the milestones and key figures of the airport which is now the 5th cargo platform in Europe with 1.412.000 tons of freight last year, 60 million e-commerce parcels and nearly 10.000 direct and indirect jobs.

Christian also explained that Alibaba opened his first European hub in Liege and is expected to add 100.000m² in the coming years. The Airport will keep investing in the next 20 years (€600M) to develop the area and leverage on the multi-modal capacities of the region (river, sea, train with a direct line to Yiwu, China) to target a cargo capacity of 2.500.000 tons per year.

Last speaker of the day was Kris Vermeire, pilot and flight instructor for ASL, which presented us the ASL Academy that will welcome up to 22 students in 2022 with 7 dedicated aircrafts and 2 Advanced Redbird Simulators.

The cost of the training will range between 12 to 15.000€ and can last between 1 to 2 years depending on the learning speed of the students. 

A lovely and delicious networking drink and dinner was also provided to the guests.

We could talk to many experts in the field of construction (architects, furniture designers, HVAC, roofing, flooring, or heat pump specialists)

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