March 24: changing the construction column with integrated collaboration

In recent years, members have asked questions about changing the way the construction industry works. Recently it was about the tension between public procurement and the room for experiments/innovations. These types of points keep coming up and on March 24, your industry is organizing a meeting at TU Delft to discuss this. The positive examples of the Ingenieursbureau Amsterdam and Covalent serve as a basis for looking at collaboration in the built environment in a different way.

Covalent's presentation discusses examples of tunnel construction in which integrated collaboration has simply been implemented. When you experience a project like this, you wonder why you still do other projects in an 'old-fashioned' way. Covalent's approach is not only relevant for tunnels. There is a direct link with other projects.

Many bridges and quay walls in Amsterdam suffer from overdue maintenance and are also designed for 'horse and cart'. Not on the current heavy and intensive traffic. The scope of the Bridges and Quay Walls Program includes approximately 850 bridges and 200 km of quay walls.

Under the regular approach, investigating and (possibly) restoring/replacing this area would take approximately 400 years! Amsterdam has set itself the goal of fixing it within 20 years. This implies a necessary acceleration by a factor of 20. The solution is not to work more efficiently or to tackle it with more money or people. The approach must be completely different. This also applies to the way in which Amsterdam involves engineering firms and contractors in this task.

Various relations from the Building Automation industry have been invited to this meeting. It also concerns architects, installers, building owners and builders. The goal is to speak about this topic with 50 professionals from the built environment.

Log in Max Meijer for this physical meeting.