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Healthy living for all: affordable, biodiverse and neighborhood-oriented

NICE Developers offers residents future-proof residential buildings with a place for everyone. With healthy buildings and neighborhood amenities, we do more than just take up space. We are giving something back. Our residential buildings are firmly embedded in their surroundings and enter into an intimate relationship with them. By providing space for meeting and a mix of accessible rental and owner-occupied housing, for example. With integrated greenery for more biodiversity and climate adaptability. They are NICE Buildings, made to offer you a healthy future.

NICE gives something back to the neighborhood with green buildings

There is a severe shortage of affordable housing. Yet we must find the solutions to this in the existing city. That is the challenge we face. Therefore, in recent years - especially for people with lower and middle incomes - it has become increasingly difficult to find a house (for sale or rent).

Our solution? By ensuring a good mix of social, mid-rent and owner-occupied housing, we make living in our NICE Buildings accessible to everyone. With Paris Proof residential buildings, we also add more housing and more quality to neighborhoods, while engaging in dialogue with (neighborhood) residents. The neighborhood has a voice that we hear loud and clear and include in the development. With lots of green and outdoor space, we develop healthy wooden residential buildings that retain CO₂ and provide space for shared facilities (mobility, vegetable garden, tools), meeting and connection. The whole neighborhood benefits from this!

Good and healthy living for future generations

The answer is NICE

Building differently is important

We realized our wooden residential building SAWA by making the decision that it had to be there. By then pulling out all the stops with our partners to take this necessary next step in housing development. Much research, experiments, learning moments and successes later, we can confidently say that we know how to do it. That's why we developed the NICE Concept. More NICE Buildings are now in development.

Does our mission excite you and would you like to see more NICE Buildings in your neighborhood?

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News

NICE is a Food Bank for Bees!

NICE Developers is participating in the "Feed the Bee" campaign: Pick up free flower seeds from NICE Developers and help sow during National Sowing Day on April 22.
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SAWA from the Meuse River
SAWA

SAWA's journey to delivery

Exciting times at NICE Developers! Check out these beautiful new photos of SAWA in Rotterdam, captured by Ossip.
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Middle-rent SAWA mapped
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Teachers, healthcare personnel and police officers find home in SAWA

Mid-rent homes in SAWA successfully allocated to people with social professions and move on from social housing.
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SAWA

SAWA out of the scaffolding

Construction of SAWA, Rotterdam's first 50-meter-high circular wooden building, is nearing an important completion phase. And now that SAWA is largely out of the scaffolding, the pure and blond character of the wooden design is becoming increasingly visible.
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Publications

SAWA highlighted in NTR program Focus "Building with Wood"

Mark Compeer and Robert Winkel share their views on timber construction in this episode, and SAWA is highlighted in detail as the prime example of how we need to build more in the future if we are to reduce CO2 emissions and want to reduce CO2 want to be neutral.
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Reports

NICE Reports - Fat & Lazy

Launching NICE beer: "Wooden Head"

In collaboration with local city brewery Vet & Lazy, located in BlueCity Rotterdam, NICE is proud to present a new and exclusive beer: "Houten Kop." Recently, Mieke from the NICE team visited the brewery, where she talked with brewer Ruben about the craft brewing process of this beer.
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Unveiling of the NICE Tower

World's tallest circular wooden residential tower

On a festive day at the Maaspodium, where the five-year anniversary of NICE Developers was celebrated, Jos Melchers, Director of Urban Development of the Municipality of Rotterdam, unveiled the latest milestone in sustainable urban development: the NICE Tower.
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SAWA

Penthouse for peregrine falcon forms highest point of SAWA

SAWA Rotterdam celebrates another special milestone

SAWA, the first ever 50-meter-high circular wooden residential building in the Netherlands, has reached its highest point. This milestone was symbolically marked by the placement of a specially designed nesting box, "the penthouse for the peregrine falcon," on the roof of SAWA, bringing the iconic building to its final height.
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Wood at high altitude

Brief construction update SAWA

Eight enormous stability trusses were incorporated into SAWA. The trusses were produced at the Derix Factory in Westerkappeln, Germany. One wooden truss weighs as much as 7 tons and spans about 14 meters.
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Reports

NICE reports - Citizen Consultation

In a new episode of NICE Reports, Robert talks to four members of Rotterdam's Citizens' Climate Council. What do they think of SAWA? Watch the NICE Reports here.
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Shaking hands?

Are you curious about our answer to your problem? Don't hesitate and get in touch. In our own cafe NICE Place we will serve you with love a cup of coffee, fresh beer and our progressive approach. Mail to info@nicedevelopers.nl for an appointment.

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NICE Concept

Read and learn more about our unique NICE concept. It is more sustainable, circular, flexible and ... certified! Get ready for more impact.

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