Application of Business Intelligence Dashboards in Enterprise Facility Management: A case study of filling stations in the Netherlands in collaboration with AECOM B.V

Facility management focuses on the maintenance, development, and enhancement of physical assets to expand and progress commercial value, as well as the design and upkeep of an appropriate physical workplace for the organisation’s employees and work. Enterprise facility management may be challenging with regionally scattered assets and a high...

Toward more reliable cost estimations for asset replacement projects: Incorporating probabilistic models and the price uncertainty in the preliminary cost assessments for asset replacement projects

The majority of existing infrastructure assets are ageing, and sooner or later, they will have reached the end of their service life. As a result, many asset owners are confronted with large-scale replacement projects in the coming decades. Annually, they allocate a significant number of resources, but these budgets are never adequate for...

Exploring the impact of the EU emissions tradings system allowance price on sustainable construction: a Dutch case study: Exploring the relation between the allowance price and the affordability of a wooden structure compared to conventional structures out of steel and concrete for a large distribution centre

The global population is growing rapidly, so the construction sector must keep up by increasing the number of houses and improving the infrastructure. The construction sector is importance to support economic growth and social development within society. However, the conflict that arises here is that the activities of the construction sector are...

Residual Value Determination in the Context of Product-Service Systems Applied to Infrastructure Projects

This past century the demand for raw materials has risen sharply. This demand is expected to rise even further, which is not sustainable. Changing the linear model of consumption to a circular model can help to decrease levels of raw material demand. The application of service­oriented business models, called Product­Service System (PSS) can...

A Systems Thinking approach towards Reuse: Digital Platform Ecosystem facilitating building design with recoverable elements

Although the construction industry has made considerable progress in reducing the environmental impacts by waste diversion, the consumption rate of natural resources for construction material is still on the higher side. Hence, there needs to be a higher emphasis on reusing old building components in new construction without down-cycling them...

Decision Support for Port Investments: A Real Options Approach

Expansions for future demand? How much capacity will be required? Until when the decision can be postponed? When to expand? What should be the magnitude of expansion? What is the position of such an investment? These are the kind of questions which a port authority is subjected to while making a decision to expand or develop a port. The decision...

Infrastructure life cycle management under climate change uncertainty: A new dynamic method applied to road tunnels in the Netherlands

Objective: Static long-term decision-making processes for road assets adaptation on the dynamic effects of climate change seem to be ineffective because the proposed proactive measures might not address the actual climate at the fixed date the decision-maker imposes them to be implemented but by giving a time range of expected implementation in...

Different Levels, same Goals: How to enable members of the organization to harmonise Alignment

The Dutch railway system is the most intensively used in Europe. This fact, although fascinating, it creates complexity and many interfaces in its operation. The performance of such a system is governed by many aspects and involves many parties. Furthermore, these aspects and parties will have different needs and perceive performance in a...

Asset Aggregation: Structuring condition data for decision-making

One of the many challenges in infrastructure management lies in managing built assets. Managing means repairing, rehabilitating and replacing assets to ensure they are able to safely fulfill their functions. To manage infrastructure assets, detailed information about the condition of all components of the asset is required to make substantiated...

Uncertainty Modelling in Life Cycle Costing Analysis for Rail Level Crossing Systems

Asset degradation and maintenance strategies are driving factors that cause the variation in life cycle cost (LCC) of infrastructure assets. In the railway industry, several researchers have analyzed the impact of the uncertainty on LCC, but the emphasis was laid on traditional ballasted tracks. Another type of track structure, embedded rail...

Long-term Availability Analysis of Water Treatment Plants: Complex Repairable Systems with Deteriorating Characteristics

Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) play a key role in assuring water availability to citizens and businesses. Long term availability of these plants is the interest of the asset manager of a WTP and can be influenced by maintenance strategies and modifications of the system. A WTP is characterized by a complex configuration and repairable,...

Asset Deterioration: Determining Probabilistic Maintenance Intervals

The municipality of Amsterdam is facing the challenge to deal with uncertainties accompanied with the maintenance planning of maintenance activities on bridges. Long term asset planning (LTAP) has the goal to show the proposed expenditures, capital and operational expenditures (CAPEX and OPEX), for the long term to be able to build up a monetary...