“Integrated collaboration works extremely well”: Meeting canceled

Two positive examples of integrated collaboration are discussed in the co-creation center of TU Delft. Malcolm Aalstein from the Amsterdam Engineering Office takes us through how they want to reduce the lead time of a project that would actually take 400 years (not a typo) to 20 years. Bob de Vos and Tjerk-Peter van den Berg from Covalent share with us how integrated collaboration worked on a large tunnel project. The Building Automation industry cordially invites you to be present and after the presentations, further discuss how the approach can work within our industry. 

Covalent's presentation discusses examples of tunnel construction in which integrated collaboration has been deployed. “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 but can also certainly be applied to 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 and people. The approach must be completely different. This also applies to the way in which Amsterdam engineering firms involve contractors in this task.