Publications

Royal HaskoningDHV's Pit to Port presentation given at Investing in African Mining, Indaba.

"A complete consulting and design service from mine through the logistics chain to shipping”

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A method and a tool have been developed to assist the designers from the beginning of the design phase. The costs and benefits for different design options are calculated using Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and are presented in an insightful way to the stakeholders. Traditionally these calculations are only made by cost specialists at the end of the design phase, only quantifying a few design options in detail, instead of using these calculations in the early design stages to generate optimal design solutions.

The ’’Sustainable Building - Accelerator'' supports stakeholders to decide on sustainable solutions by giving them cost and benefit information of design solutions. This information provides them with valuable input to create their sound business cases.

This article, which was presented at the international conference ICEBO 2011 – New York, describes the concept and illustrates the added value of the ''Sustainable Building - Accelerator''.

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The Chemical Safety Report under REACH documents how risks of chemical substances are to be controlled. Froukje Balk and Leo van der Biessen of Royal Haskoning share their experience. Download

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The petrochemical industry is organized in four sectors: exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, transport, refining and marketing and distribution.   Royal Haskoning has a large number of references in this sector and is able to assist all customers with their water and wastewater issues. Download

As the effluent standards for municipal wastewater treatment plants are getting stricter, the Waterboards are investing more in technologies for wastewater treatment. These new technologies can drastically enhance the effluent quality, bringing new opportunities and possibilities for reuse of the effluent. This article is presented at the IWA congress “6th conference on wastewater reclamation and reuse for sustainability”. Download

Social cost-benefit analysis (CBA), even though it is applied intensively for prioritising the allocation of public spending, receives strong criticism. In this paper, based on experiences from Royal Haskoning, the role of CBA is discussed. It is assessed to what extent criticism focussing on e.g. environmental valuation, undervaluation of long term effects and innovations, and the neglect of irreversibilities can be dealt with. Moreover, a few challenges are formulated that may give CBA a stronger and less contested position. Download

The municipality of Amsterdam wish to reduce the level of car traffic within the City Centre. As a consequence the public transport is to be extended by a new North/South Metro line. This paper will focus on the design philosophy of the deep station boxes. Download

This year the construction of the deep underground stations for the new Amsterdam metro line will start. As a part of the stations’ design a full scale test on the installation of diaphragm wall trenches has been carried out to investigate the impact on the environment. This paper discusses test program, test results, the interpretation of the test results and the 3D FE modelling that was used for prediction and validation purposes. Download

The CS underground station of the North/South Line is on Station Island. This station will be an integral part of the biggest public transport hub in the Netherlands and will provide transfer facilities between local, regional and international public transport systems. Download