Overview
Benjamin Eysermans is the CEO and co-founder of Bao Living, a company he co-founded in September 2015. He is based in Antwerp. Since January 2019 he has also served as a board member of HESTIA Building Memories.
Earlier, he co-founded Vrienden van de Reynaert, where he was involved from July 2016 to September 2018, and RBLS., which he co-founded in July 2015 and remained with until May 2016.
Eysermans studied for a bachelor in Business & Marketing at UC Leuven-Limburg from 2010 to 2013, followed by communication sciences at KU Leuven in 2013 and 2014. He completed a master in entrepreneurship and innovation at Antwerp Management School in 2015.
Career history
In the news
- I’m pleased to share that Bao Living has been selected for the ULI Accelerator 2026–27 cohort. Axel van der Donk and I started Bao Living to make urban housing more affordable, liveable and sustainable. Today, we help residential developers create more usable living space in their urban projects, reduce material use, and build more circularly with our SAM system. On Wednesday 4 November, I’ll be at the ULI C Change Summit in Dublin. I’m looking forward to learning from real estate professionals across Europe and exploring how we
- One thing from my conversation with Leo Van Broeck that stuck with me: a passive house in the wrong place can still be the less sustainable choice. We tend to judge a building by its own energy performance. But every new house built outside dense urban areas needs far more roads, pipes and cables. And the difference isn’t small: it’s 18 times as much! A family house in the city needs about 5 metres of that infrastructure; a family house in the countryside needs about 90 metres. Add the extra car trips, and society keeps paying for it
- Great new Bao Livingg project in the cosy Antwerp-South! Together with Martijn Van Hout, Oana Butnariu and STAM Architecten, we’re retrofitting two apartments in a neoclassical townhouse from 1895 with SAM. The apartments are made for people staying in Antwerp for a while, so they need to feel like home from day one, with a proper place to work. A fold-out bed and built-in desk module turn the bedroom into a living and working space during the day. But we go beyond the apartments themselves. We’re also renovating all the
- Great new Bao Living project in the cosy Antwerp-South! Together with Martijn Van Hout, Oana Butnariu and STAM Architecten, we’re retrofitting two apartments in a neoclassical townhouse from 1895 with SAM. The apartments are made for people staying in Antwerp for a while, so they need to feel like home from day one, with a proper place to work. A fold-out bed and built-in desk module turn the bedroom into a living and working space during the day. But we go beyond the apartments themselves. We’re also renovating all the
- Rough days ask for safety nets 🌊🛟 Go Ocean is flowing. We're going full force ahead, overcoming obstacles, and making positive impact! Sometimes it's not the business that is rough. What if your energy as a person is challenged and "going full force ahead" is not within your capacity? Well, I'm super grateful to be part of NOA, where a community of entrepreneurs and visionaries are all great listeners, honest advisors, very human, and always ready when you need them. On Monday, I participated in a NOA Founder Room (in my
- The latest episode of the Bao Living Podcast is one I was really looking forward to. Former Vlaams Bouwmeester Leo Van Broeck joined me to discuss the tough challenges and massive opportunities facing the construction sector today. Leo was never afraid to speak his mind during his tenure as Vlaams Bouwmeester, and it quickly became clear during the recording that he hasn't lost that edge. His perspective on the pressure the building industry puts on our environment is sobering. Yet, he still managed to leave me thoroughly inspired.
- Seeing a digital model become a home people actually live in will never get old for me. We recently wrapped up this beautiful renovation project in Bree, converting a former fire station into 9 modern studios. Standing in the final space, my conclusion is always the same: efficiency doesn't have to sacrifice great design. By hiding away all the utilities inside the structure of our SAM, as well as implementing space-saving modules like a fold-out bed and built-in washbasin, we created up to 20% extra livable space compared to
- Hard to ignore the heat this week. In our latest Bao Living podcast episode, Daan Grasveld from The Urban Jungle Project shares something that stuck with me: trees can lower the perceived temperature in a city by up to 19 degrees. That's not landscaping. It's urban infrastructure, and this week makes clear why it matters more every year. Full episode available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, link in the comments.
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