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As concerns about climate change increase, which can harm the environment, all kinds of businesses face a challenge called sustainability. In the construction sector, one pathway to greater sustainability is designing and constructing buildings with low carbon emissions. Some res ...
Flood risks and its consequences become more and more challenging and are demanding for the currently present dike systems and hydraulic structures in the Netherlands. This automatically raises the question for the possibility of adjustable temporary deployable flood defences tha ...
This study examines improving the documentation and application of lessons learned in tender processes within the Dutch construction sector, focusing on Royal BAM Group. Despite the need for effective knowledge management, challenges like fragmented knowledge sharing and inconsis ...

A multidisciplinairy approach to watermanagement in ricanau mofo

A scientific study that explores solutions for Ricanau Mofo's water management challenges, focusing on riverbank stabilization, improved drainage and responsible waste management

Located in Suriname, the village of Ricanau Mofo faces a multitude of environmental challenges. This report delves into a comprehensive study that employed a multidisciplinary approach, leveraging the expertise of students from various backgrounds to address these pressing issues ...
With the growing demand for expanding sustainable energy production in the Netherlands, investigating potential renewable energy sources has become imperative. Scheduled replacement projects for weirs along the river Meuse within the next decade present an excellent opportunity t ...

Improving the data quality checking process during the design phase

Development of a design-integrated data checking and reporting tool

One of the crucial aspects of BIM is the data rich environment connecting project information from different sub-sectors. (Mesároš et al., 2020). Therefore, developing models with consistent and trustworthy building data has gained significant importance in the industry. In contr ...

Maintenance emission information model

Developing an information model/tool to quantify CO2 emissions from maintenance activities of large number of assets in a Municipality

The construction industry in the Netherlands is taking numerous measures throughout the industry to achieve the possible reduction of CO2 emission or GHG emissions by 2050 to become carbon neutral. Based on the current situation the major focus is usually on the production and co ...

5D-based estimation of indirect construction costs

Development of an adaptive automation tool for improved efficiency of the ABK estimation process

One of the fundamental goals for the success of a construction project is found to be completion within the budget. To reach this goal, cost estimation is a key process which can be divided into the estimation of direct and indirect costs. Unlike direct costs, indirect costs are ...

Scaling digital twins

A roadmap to address operational planning uncertainties of container terminals

Container terminals are critical infrastructure for the economy, and the need to digitalize is felt in the industry. One solution is to combine digital integration and process automation with a digital twin. This is an ideal tool to identify weaknesses and opportunities in the op ...

Towards developing a tool for circular building elements in the construction and waste industry

The applicability of a Circular Construction Element Information System for existing building elements based on Circular Economy strategies to optimize the reusability

The construction and waste industry would move towards applying Circular Economy (CE) strategies, to meet the circular ambition of the Dutch government before 2050. In order to accelerate this transition, it is necessary to explore and adopt more innovative and sustainable soluti ...
The current research stems from the motivation of reducing the information loss that asset managers face in the operation & maintenance phase of the project. Most of the public infrastructure assets’ condition nowadays deteriorate due to ageing and municipalities confront cha ...

Improving fall from height risk reduction

Creating a safer construction site with the use of BIM technology

Innovative solutions for safety and risk management on construction sites are required to reduce the amount of accidents that occur globally, as too many occupational accidents still happen in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry. A particular problem is the fa ...
Risk management, a process aiming to decrease or eliminate the likelihood and impact of unwanted effects on a project during its lifecycle, has become highly significant due to complexity, uncertainties and high competition. Numerous tools and techniques have been developed for s ...
In recent years the AEC industry has started implementing more new technologies. Still, the adoption process is slow. One of the crucial steps during the building designing is a justification of design according to previously defined requirements. That process is still manual to ...

Data Driven Health & Safety Management

Leveraging Real Time Data Management to Improve Health & Safety Environment on Construction Sites

The construction industry has always been plagued with a high number of accidents and fatalities. The Dutch construction is not an exception in this case and had the highest percentage of workplace accidents among all industries in the national economy, in the year 2019. The high ...
In the current breakwater design process, not all feasible concepts can be explored due to time constraints. However, designers are also influenced by breakwaters constructed near, or at the same location as their breakwater project. But also conservative assumptions influence th ...

Nuevo Ferroviario Rio Biobío

Hydraulic and structural study for the new railway bridge to investigate the influence of river morphodynamics and tsunami impact on the structural stability of the bridge pier

In Chile, the Biobío river separates the cities of Concepción and San Pedro de la Paz. Bridges crossing the Biobío river ensure a fast and dependable connection, which contributes to the transport options in the region. With the Biobío region being the second largest contributor ...

Construction project performance control using 4D BIM

Comparing the Baseline Plan Against the As Built Progress of a Project

Traditional construction planning and performance control tools such as Gantt Charts and S Curves fail to visually represent physical project progress, construction sequence, interfaces and the critical path, which means that decision makers carry out their job with incomplete in ...

Applying Lessons Learned

How project-based organizations can apply lessons learned retrieved from past projects

The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry has been traditionally fragmented, with a lot of disciplines specialising in different aspects of a project and encapsulating different knowledge areas. This research project, entitled “Knowledge Model for the Parame ...