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Medina Pena, N.J. (author), Sanchez, Arlex (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author)
Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense, causing damage to infrastructure and causing loss of life. One way to reduce disaster risk is by evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite the amount of literature that exists on evacuation behavior, there is still a lack of agreement on which variables...
journal article 2023
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Jones, Keith (author), Mulder, Femke (author), Morga, Mariantonietta (author), Wanigarathna, Nadeeshani (author)
Background and aim - Improving the resilience of business organisations and critical infrastructure providers to disaster events is a major challenge facing many European organisations. Recent floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and earthquakes in Iceland, Italy, Romania and Greece have demonstrated the need for organisations to adopt...
conference paper 2022
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Kräussl, Zsofia (author), Baida, Ziv (author), Post, Suzanne (author), Rukanova, B.D. (author), Tan, Y. (author)
Circular Economy (CE) and sustainability are getting high on the political agenda of governments on the global level. Businesses and supply chains are at the heart of that transition, and need to make big steps in the coming years for making the transition from a linear model of make-use-dispose towards a circular model. For this transition,...
conference paper 2022
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author)
The need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental–technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof...
book chapter 2022
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Kabyl, Almat (author), Yang, M. (author), Shah, Dhawal (author), Ahmad, Arshad (author)
Oil spills are environmental pollution events that occur due to natural disasters or human activities, resulting in a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon release in the environment, especially into the marine ecosystem. Once oil spills happen, they cause detrimental consequences to the environment, living organisms, and humans. Although there are...
journal article 2022
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Biersteker, Erwin (author), van Marrewijk, A.H. (author), Koppenjan, Joop (author)
Recently, scholars have called for a focus on subjective aspects of risk management as a suitable lens for understanding how it functions. In line with this lens, this study focuses on project actors’ viewpoints on risk management in the context of construction projects to provide novel insights in risk management. Drawing on Renn's model and...
journal article 2022
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Iuorio, Luca (author), Bortolotti, A. (author)
The relation between the design of the flood protection infrastructure and the design of the urbanscape is the focus of this paper with the question on how these two types of design can consciously affect each other. The text presents the preliminary result of an interdisciplinary research conducted by a team of urban designers and hydraulic...
conference paper 2021
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Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Voortman, H.G. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), van Vuren, S. (author)
This article highlights recent developments in flood risk management in the Netherlands and presents approaches for reliability analysis and asset management for flood defences and hydraulic infrastructure. The functioning of this infrastructure is of great importance for the country as large parts of it are prone to flooding. Based on a...
journal article 2018
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Fannin, R.J. (author), Hartford, D.N.D. (author)
conference paper 2017
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Spruit, R. (author), Van Tol, F. (author), Broere, W. (author)
If a calamity with a retaining wall occurs, the impact on surrounding buildings and infrastructure is at least an order of magnitude more severe than without the calamity. In 2005 and 2006 major leaks in the retaining walls of underground stations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam occurred. After these cases had been thoroughly studied it was concluded...
conference paper 2015
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Spruit, R. (author), Van Tol, F. (author), Broere, W. (author)
If a calamity with a retaining wall occurs, the impact on surrounding buildings and infrastructure is at least an order of magnitude more severe than without the calamity. In 2005 and 2006 major leaks in the retaining walls of underground stations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam occurred. After these cases had been thoroughly studied it was concluded...
conference paper 2015
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Ko, F.W.Y. (author)
Hong Kong faces a unique long-term slope safety problem due to its dense urban development in a hilly terrain combined with high seasonal rainfall. Its slope engineering practice and landslide risk management have evolved in response to experience and through continuous improvement initiatives and technology advances. The application of state-of...
conference paper 2015
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Spross, J. (author), Olsson, L. (author), Hintze, S. (author), Stille, H. (author)
To reduce the costs of unexpected geotechnical events in construction projects in Sweden, the Swedish Geotechnical Society has adopted a general methodology for risk management. In this paper, we exemplify how the proposed risk management philosophy could have been applied on a sheet-pile wall, which failed in 1992 in Stockholm because the...
conference paper 2015
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Spruit, R. (author), Hannink, G. (author), Mastbroek, H. (author), Van Hengstum, L. (author)
During a design process the risk profile of a project continuously evolves. Often a project progresses through a diamond shaped risk envelope. The initial concept is simple, but during the engineering process several risks are defined and mitigated, making the design increasingly complex. With additional investigations and calculations, some of...
conference paper 2015
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De Nijs, R.E.P. (author), Nap, A.C.A. (author), Korte, W. (author), Nederlof, W.J. (author)
During the design phase of the reconstruction of the existing mooring facility “EBS Biohub” at the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a high risk profile was recognized in the proximity of four new dolphins next to the existing jetty. The risk originated from the greater installation depth of the dolphins related to the limited foundation depth...
conference paper 2015
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Zandbergen, D. (author), Martens, J. (author)
During World War II the city of Rotterdam endured hundreds of air raids. Expectations are that a few dozens of UXOs are still to be found in the Rotterdam soil. UXOs can still go off to this day due to vibrations caused by construction activities. The vibration impact on the environment around the activities can be accurately predicted. The...
conference paper 2015
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Zlatanova, S. (author), Ghawana, T. (author), Kaur, A. (author), Neuvel, J.M.M. (author)
Spatial Information is an integral part of flood management practices which include risk management & emergency response processes. Although risk & emergency management activities have their own characteristics, for example, related to the time scales, time pressure, activities & actors involved, it is still possible to identify at least one...
conference paper 2014
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Mehairjan, R.P.Y. (author), Zhuang, Q. (author), Djairam, D. (author), Smit, J.J. (author)
The electrical power sector is stimulated to evolve under the pressures of the energy transition, the deregulation of electricity markets and the introduction of intelligent grids. In general, engineers believe that technologies such as monitoring, control and diagnostic devices, can realize this evolvement smoothly. Unfortunately, the...
conference paper 2014
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Terwel, K.C. (author), Jansen, S.J.T. (author)
From forensic investigation it is known that many structural failures can be attributed to human errors and organizational factors. To provide project leaders with information on the current state of factors in the building process influencing structural safety, we developed a quick assessment tool. Logistic regression was used, based on data of...
conference paper 2014
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Terwel, K.C. (author)
Failure investigations show that 80-85% of the structural failures are caused by inadequacies in the design and construction process, related to human and organizational factors. This study showed that safety culture, allocation of responsibilities control, communication and collaboration and knowledge infrastructure need improvement in the...
doctoral thesis 2014
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