Geotechnical Risks in a Deep Building Pit in The Hague’s Old City Centre: Project Veenkade Case Study of the Restoration of an Old Canal and a New Underground Parking Garage

In The Hague, a 2 storey parking garage was built beneath a reinstated canal at the Veenkade with 160 parking places. The canal and the parking garage were installed at minimum 3 - 6 m distance from old houses with a shallow foundation by means of a 10 m deep building pit. A risk analysis was undertaken and major risks were identified, resulting...

Risk Management of a Complex Remediation of the Former Feijenoord Gasworks Site in Rotterdam

This paper will show how the project's geotechnical risk profile was put into design and contract, the experience of the risk monitoring and risk measures, followed by a short evaluation.

Geotechnical Engineering in Contracts for Civil Projects

Geo-Impuls is a Dutch nationwide programme with the aim to reduce geotechnical related failures in projects. During the last 5 years, a large number of teams have been working within three themes (techniques, communications and contracts) on a procedure for coping with the natural uncertainties of the Dutch subsoil. The large variation in the...

Geo Risk Management Results for a Public Client Organization

Rijkswaterstaat is the executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, responsible for development and maintenance of the Dutch main road network, main waterway network and main water systems. Managing and realizing these networks, not only within time, budget, safety margins and quality standards, but also with a minimum...