Analysis of the decision-making process in the road maintenance sector with respect to climate adaptation

Road networks play a crucial role in economic and sustainable growth, but they face challenges such as traffic loads, drainage, and secondary road works. Climate change poses risks, such as structural damage and vulnerability to extreme weather. The Dutch government has emphasized the importance of climate adaptation in road maintenance policies...

A design-based study of data-driven asset management for Storm Surge Barriers: Implementing predictive maintenance, digital twins and realizing data governance for the current asset management at Rijkswaterstaat

Rijkswaterstaat’s Storm Surge Barriers are expensive assets providing economic value with the expectation of future returns. The maintenance is executed by the asset management department, which aims at maximizing operability without sacrificing safety and reliability. However, regular maintenance becomes more stringent as circumstances change,...

Assessing circularity in the end of life phase of public assets and identifying essential requirements for performance measurement

Policymakers and literature have expressed the need for a visual and tangible manner of mapping circular value, the progress towards a fully circular economy and the presence of materials (material passport) in public space. Several initiatives exist for the measurement of circular progress. However, none have explicitly aimed towards the urban...

Theoretical development of sampling analysis for the monitoring of pavement quality

Schiphol Airport and Heijmans are working together on the renewal of the Schiphol runways pavements. Currently the top layer is covered with a synthetic antiskid material called ASK. But the strong weather limitations for the installation of this material have opened the door for alternatives. Heijmans has proposed an innovative asphalt mixture...

Maintenance planning of transmission assets under uncertainty for long-term horizon

Outage scheduling for maintenance in asset management of electrical transmission and distribution system plays an important role in power system reliability. For instance, failure probability of transmission line may change from time to time due to exogenous conditions. Impact of failure or service interruption can be described by using...

A Maturity Model for Maintenance Departments of Public Organisations: An adaptation of the EFQM model

The growing awareness of delivering public services into more costumer-oriented minded triggers the public organisations to manage their assets professionally. Building assets are one of the resources owned by the public organisations that need to be maintained. Maintenance departments are part of the public body that have responsibilities to...

A framework towards forward cooperation in the product life cycle of dredging equipment

The Dutch shipbuilding industry has a real competitive force in building complex, specialized and multipurpose vessels (Rabobank, 2014). However, the Dutch maritime sector has to deal with strongly growing competition worldwide. For the dredging sector this implies the need to innovate in order to remain competitive. This research focuses on the...

Extending the scientific foundation of the DNV GL Health Index methodology for electrical power equipment

The DNV GL Health Index translates statistical, condition and utilization data of electrical power equipment into several asset representations that show technical asset health, including expected remaining lifetimes. These remaining lifetimes are used to determine the required action for the asset manager. In this research, a method was...

Implementing the Asset Management Approach: Contributing to efficient organizational change at Schiphol Group following Process Consultation methodology

A thesis research following the process consultation method to assist department Airfield Maintenance Services of Schiphol Group with the implementation of the asset management approach. This research identifies the difficulties associated with the implementation of the Asset Management approach as described in the ISO 55000 standard, and the...

Asset management of regional flood defenses

This thesis explores what the concept of asset management means for the management of regional flood defenses. The concept is explored by assessing the asset management maturity of regional flood defense management at one water board.

Framework of Model-Based Health Optimization on the Electrical Power System

The advanced ageing of the electrical power network combined with the inevitable increase of renewable energy utilization and the constant increase of power consumption over the last decades call for a change in the current power network paradigm. Electrical world stakeholders have to embrace the situation and come up with methods of better...

De ondergrond bindt ons: Verkennende studie naar de meerwaarde van onderlinge informatie-uitwisseling voor assetmanagement van netbeheerders

Door verouderende infrastructuren, aankomende vervangingsgolven, verandering in vraag en de steeds drukker wordende ondergrond staan netbeheerders van ondergrondse infrastructuren voor een gezamenlijke uitdaging, waarin de rol van beheer en informatie een prominente plaats heeft. Reageren op basis van storingen wordt hiervoor niet meer als...

A New Approach to Asset Management for Sewer Networks

The underground space in the Netherlands contains a large number of infrastructure networks. The sewer network, which plays a vital role in our public health system, is one of these. Sewer networks in the Netherlands have different ages and show different levels of deterioration. The various components of sewer networks will have to be repaired,...

Asset Management Decision Support for HV SCFF Power Cables

Decision support methodology for the remaining life evaluation vis-a-vis replacement of power cables.