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Four thousand civil servants, one address, one floor

In 2025, just over 1,000 civil servants of the Walloon regional government relocated to the Cap Sud buildings at 44-50 Boulevard Ernest Mélot in Namur. Previously, the administration had been spread across seven different sites in the city. Cap Sud brought these teams together in a single, purpose-built location near the railway station. The development offers approximately 24,000 m² of gross floor area and forms part of a modern, mixed-use environment designed to meet high sustainability standards, including BREEAM "Very Good" certification, in line with Belgium’s nearly zero-energy ambitions and its pathway toward carbon neutrality by 2050.

  • Location: Namur, Belgium
  • Sector: Office
  • Product Category: Carpet tiles
  • Surface: 16,356 m²

An interior built around people

Bringing more than a thousand civil servants together after years of working across several separate locations is an organisational achievement. Making that transition feel natural in daily life is a design one. The interior architecture was conceived by Assar Architects in collaboration with Global Change, Design & Build, creating a workplace that supports focus, encourages collaboration, and feels intuitive to use every day. Beddeleem led the complete interior works, with Van den Broeck BV as their trusted partner for the carpet tile installation across 16,356 m².

A floor that earns its place

The choice of Bruut 975 from Mohawk Group's Imperfection collection was made by recognition. Bruut is produced as a rectangular plank of 25 x 100 cm rather than a conventional square tile, and that format is part of what it brings to a space: laid across a large floor, the elongated proportion adds a directionality that a square format cannot offer. The 1/12" Pattern Perfect construction gives the surface a raw, almost geological texture that catches light differently as the day moves through the building, a material that reads as considered from the very first day.

The Imperfection collection is named for what it values: the kind of character that emerges when a material is allowed to be itself. Bruut’s palette runs wide, from deep blues and earthy browns to warm beiges and a range of greys, and every colour carries that same quality of depth. The 975 variant, with a light reflectance value of 25.80, sits at a point in the grey-beige spectrum where warmth and calm meet in equal measure. In a space this large, that is precisely what allows the people, the light and the architecture to come forward.

Performance with purpose

That the carpet tiles are produced in Moeskroen, Wallonia, gave the specification an added coherence for an institution whose mandate is the governance of that same region. The performance credentials are equally well-placed: a 28 dB impact sound reduction and a 0.30 αw sound absorption coefficient bring genuine acoustic comfort to open-plan floors walked by thousands every day. ECONYL® 100% regenerated nylon and an EcoFlex™ One backing with 94% recycled felt complete what the building's BREEAM certification already frames. A workplace this size succeeds when every layer of it is working. Bruut 975 is doing exactly that.

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