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About

The story behind
Liven World.

Liven World was founded by three entrepreneurs who had had enough of projects that deliver housing but no homes. We build the system that makes a neighborhood work. For people, not for markets.

How it started → Meet the team
The observation

Enough square metres.
Too few homes.

Liven World started with one observation. In the Netherlands we wait for housing that sometimes comes, sometimes does not, and when it does, rarely makes a community. We count square metres, not stories. We build blocks, not neighborhoods.

We believe a home is more than four walls. It is the neighbour who knows your name. The bike repair shop downstairs. A doctor around the corner. A child growing up among people who see them. That is not luxury, that is the basis.

That is why we build more than housing. We build Living Infrastructure: the system that turns a house into a home. Housing, well-being, mobility and community as one coherent whole, designed from day one.

What drives us

Four observations that shape
the Liven World model.

We see these four on every site we visit. They are not unique to one municipality or neighborhood, and they are not solved by building one more square metre.

01

The young person cannot begin

1.4 million people in the Netherlands want to move but cannot find a suitable home. A new generation is on a waiting list for the life that should be starting.

02

The older person sits alone

1.8 million people aged 65+ feel lonely today. A house that has grown too big, a calendar that has grown too empty.

03

The newcomer finds no place

4.7 million people in the Netherlands have a migration background. 26% of the country finds nowhere they truly belong.

04

The city is dividing

Polarisation is growing. Not from a lack of understanding, but a lack of places where people meet each other daily without a transaction.

The proof

No thesis.
A built reality.

The first four Liven World projects are rising in Almere. Randstad 21-1, 5 and 9 (332 homes, 50/50 social and mid-market rent), Randstad 21-77 (~200 homes) and Randstad 22-1, the mobility hub with 811 parking spots, unlocking ~2,000 homes in Randstad 20 and 21.

The deal is closed. Construction starts next year. With these three projects we deliver not one building, but the blueprint for every next Liven World neighborhood in the Netherlands and then Europe.

~532+
homes under construction, phase 1 and 2
~3,000m² plinth
active plinth, shared layer
811
parking spots in the hub
Randstad 21 in Almere, Liven World flagship
The roadmap

From observation
to Europe.

2025

The start

Three founders formulate Living Infrastructure as the city's missing fourth utility.

Sept 2025

First contracts

Contracts signed for Almere Randstad 21-1, 5 and 9: the flagship with 332 homes and an active plinth.

Dec 2025

The hub

Acquisition of Randstad 22-1, the mobility hub providing 811 spots and unlocking the entire district.

April 2026

The expansion

Acquisition of Randstad 21-77, the follow-up tower within walking distance of the flagship.

June 2026

Provada and launch

Plinth Configurator launches at Provada 2026. First international conversations in France, Belgium and Denmark.

2028

Residential groundbreaking

Groundbreaking Randstad 21-1, 5 and 9 in Almere. Hub R22-1 already a year under construction. Liven Europe active in France, Belgium and Denmark.

Meet the team
behind it.

Liven World was founded by three entrepreneurs who complement each other: Jeroen Janssen (design and experience), Bert-Jan van Beers (construction and development) and Marcel Versteeg (finance and partnerships).

Together they bring the three disciplines needed to make Living Infrastructure real. We work with a ring of partners that proves it in Almere.

Meet the founders → See our partners