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11-11-2024
Christmas magic only or year-round appeal?
The best place for Christmas shopping is the garden centre, as the sales figures for garden centres show. Christmas is traditionally the strongest sales period, accounting for 25% to 40% of annual sales for most. The appeal of these shows attracts not only regular customers, but also many new visitors looking for specific Christmas products. How can you overcome the seasonal challenges so that you see these visitors all year round?
12-09-2024
3,216 m2 Botanical glasshouse (SE)
For the famous Botanical Garden in Gothenburg, Sweden, we are going to build a new visitor centre and associated botanical greenhouses with a total surface area of 3,216 m2. This project will be built in two phases. Together with main contractor Peab, we will start the first phase of construction in autumn 2024.
18-07-2024
Versatile and valuable rooftop glasshouses
You see it more and more often, a rooftop greenhouse with a vegetable garden in it or a restaurant. Interest in rooftop glasshouses is growing rapidly, partly due to lack of space, demand for special bright spaces with the feel of the outdoors and the popularity of local food production in densely populated areas.
01-07-2024
Job alert: Project Manager Engineering
Are you working in glass construction and looking for more challenge? Would you like to work in a close and friendly team with short lines of communication? At Smiemans Projecten B.V., we realise special international projects that challenge you to think further. From sale to completion, you are in charge. Are you the person who answers 'yes' to these questions? Then apply immediately!
24-06-2024
Expansion garden centre LongAcres (UK)
At the beginning of 2025, Smiemans Projecten will expand the popular Longacres garden centre at Bagshot, England, with a larger cold sales area and a more spacious restaurant.
06-06-2024
Design reception building for WUR (NL)
Smiemans has been commissioned to work with the Bom Group (as main contractor) on the final design of the new reception building to be built for Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in Bleiswijk. Once this phase has been completed, the design will be implemented.
15-04-2024
Iceland's largest garden centre opened
Last Friday, Gardheimar's new garden centre was officially opened. With temperatures around freezing, it was warm inside in terms of atmosphere and temperature. We are grateful for the opportunity to build this beautiful building. Glad to see it all comes together, now it's up and running.
05-03-2024
Refurbishment garden centre RHS Garden Harlow Carr
On behalf of the RHS, we recently renovated the garden centre we built in 2004. This greenhouse for selling plants is located in the beautiful botanical garden 'RHS Garden Harlow Carr' in Harrogate (UK). The renovation was carried out in early 2024 by our local partner Ebtech Glasshouse Systems Ltd.
01-02-2024
Realisation rooftop glasshouse for restaurant
A rooftop glasshouse will be built by us at the CHV Noordkade in Veghel (NL), a 1915 factory site that has become a vibrant centre for art, culture, food and leisure. This insulated structure will house a scenic restaurant. Completion is scheduled for early 2024.
09-01-2024
Integration of Roll-Air Retail in Turn-Key Projects
After a number of successful turnkey garden centres, Smiemans and Rovero are teaming up to offer even more complete innovative garden centre projects! With the Roll-Air Retail integrated, the season for outdoor sales is extended and space is optimised for plants, customers and staff.
18-09-2023
Another award for rooftop greenhouse Agrotopia, this time the BTTV
Once again Agrotopia has won a prestigious award. This time the first prize of the Benelux Trophy for Hot-dip Galvanisation in the Aesthetic Galvanisation category. Since its opening, the roof greenhouse has won several design awards, such as the WAF and the Belgian Construction Award.
04-07-2023
Renovation garden centre Dvorak
In Czechia we have started with the renovation of garden centre Dvorak. The 1,400 m2 wide span structure was built by us in 2008. The roof, screens and ventilation windows will be replaced in order to better monitor and control the indoor climate in the garden centre. This will result in further energy savings.
22-06-2023
Completion first phase Plantorama Amager
The first phase for Plantorama Amager, building the new restaurant, has been completed. Now we have to wait before we can start with the second phase: the construction of the 5,000 m2 garden centre. The old garden centre will be demolished to make way for the new, larger and more sustainable building. The restaurant will then be connected to this new garden centre.
03-04-2023
Progress new garden centre in Iceland
In Reykjavik the finishing touches are currently being made to close the construction wind- and watertight. 99% of the doors and window frames have been placed.
12-01-2023
New restaurant & garden centre for Plantorama
The Danish chain Plantorama has once again commissioned us to rebuild the existing garden centre in Amager. First of all, a new restaurant is being built. After completion, the old garden centre will be demolished and the sustainable garden centre of 5,000 m2 will be realized.
31-10-2022
Expansion Tenterden garden centre
In collaboration with our partner Ebtech Glasshouse Systems, we are realizing the expansion of the Tenterden garden centre of the GrovesWell garden centres chain. The new entrance and an extra glass construction for sales will be realized at the beginning of 2023.
26-09-2022
Specially developed insulated wide rain gutters
These wide insulated rain gutters have been specially developed for the new garden centre Gardheimar. They have extra-large capacity to prevent nuisance during extreme rainfall or snow. Together with the extra thick sandwich panels, no less than 200 mm thick, this will ensure even better insulation and therefore an energy saving of more than 40%.
24-08-2022
Construction progress of 7,250 m2 garden center in Iceland
In Iceland, a large part of the steel construction for the new garden center of Gardheimar is now in place. On a site of 20,000 m2, a total of the 7,250 m2 construction with a mezzanine floor will be built. The 1,100m2 warehouse has also been built.
05-07-2022
Completion in sight for Nature and Health Center Maarssen (NL)
The wide span construction for Nature and Health Center in Maarssen has taken shape in a short period of time. The future-proof construction is heated and cooled without a gas connection. The materials used create an intimate, climate-proof complex in which sustainability is an important factor.
14-06-2022
Congress IGCA of 2022 in the Netherlands
After two years of absence, entrepreneurs in the garden industry can finally meet again at the IGCA 2022 Congress in Amsterdam. Nearly 200 garden center owners have already registered to participate in the conference, which starts on Sunday 28 August and ends on Friday evening 2 September.