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Drone view over Leiden with the LEAD building site and its crane on the Willem de Zwijgerlaan

Construction has started.

  1. Sept 2025Construction starts (done)
  2. NowThe foundation
  3. NextRising to 115 metres
  4. 2029 (intended)Completion
The building pit seen from above
A construction worker among the reinforcement
A concrete bucket hanging from the crane
Two construction workers fixing reinforcement
Reinforcement for a floor

Build update 1, filmed on the building site: a drone view over the pit, Jonas Wilmink (developer, RED Company) and Otto Jansen (COO, RED Bouw) talking in the pit, and the crew pouring concrete over the reinforcement.

Steel fixers at work in the pit
Workers guiding the concrete bucket
Pouring concrete into the reinforcement
Reinforcement for a wall
The crane lowering a bucket into the pit
Close-up of the concrete pour
Pipes and struts along the edge of the pit
Overview of the pit with the struts and the crane
The team working on the reinforcement
A concrete bucket arriving in the pit
The concrete bucket above the reinforcement
Artist impression of the park side of LEAD at golden hour: a glazed ground-floor coffee bar under a band of green ceramic tiles, people at terrace tables and a path through tall grasses and trees.

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