EDGE Olympic, Amsterdam

EDGE Olympic is an office building from 1990 that has undergone a complete transformation. Not only the appearance was completely modernized, the building also received a distinctive Cradle2Cradle extension on the roof and is equipped with the latest high tech that increases ease of use. EDGE Olympic has thus achieved the highest WELL score to date: Platinum.

A spectacular glass box has been placed on top of the existing building. The two-storey topping is completely Cradle2Cradle. The durable timber construction has less weight and can therefore be carried more easily by the existing construction underneath. The floors have a free height of 3 meters. The columns and beams of the wooden structure remain visible. This gives a transparent appearance to the transparent spaces, which lend themselves perfectly to open work areas.

EDGE Olympic is the first building in the Netherlands to achieve WELL Platinum certification for enhancing health and wellbeing. EDGE Olympic, the signature building in Amsterdam's financial district, operated by Epicenter and home to the EDGE Technologies headquarters, has received WELL™ Core & Shell Platinum Certification for its positive impacts on human health and wellbeing. The building is the first in the Netherlands to achieve the highest WELL™ Certification.

“The best way to predict the future is to create it." This slogan is huge printed on a wall. Edge Olympic strives to let us no longer see work as one big, extensive task, but as a whole lot of sub tasks: reading, thinking, researching, talking, summarizing, thinking more, write, hold meetings, think again, conclude. In the traditional world that all happens at a "person based location", your permanent place that you don't want to lose. Here you do ‘activity based working’.

EDGE Olympic includes smart technologies to enhance the health, engagement and productivity of each user. For example, biophilic design, meticulous air quality measurement and natural ambient sounds. 

We take into account what people do and want and what their interaction is. We examine how people can feel better how they could be more creative or productive.' Via an app everything is measured. Where you are, how long you are there, whether there is enough oxygen, whether there is too much noise, or if you have sufficient light.