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Dr. ir. Johan Ninan

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This study aimed to define and evaluate the viability of post-use options for excavated concrete sewer pipes. The research was conducted with a combination of literature review and expert interviews with professionals from the Municipality of Rotterdam. The process involved sev ...
The construction industry is increasingly embracing industrialised approaches to improve efficiency and reduce fragmentation. This research explores the development and management of product platforms, focusing on how industrialised construction companies enhance ecosystem collab ...

Public Participation in Action

Navigating the Environment and Planning Act: Public Participation in Spatial Development and Infrastructure

Public participation is crucial for achieving ambitious societal goals, including housing expansion, emissions reduction, mobility accessibility, and climate resilience. However, satisfying diverse stakeholders becomes increasingly challenging as projects become more complex. The ...
In the last years, municipalities' role in protecting cities from climate change impacts has increasingly gained attention due to their proximity to the citizens. Although municipalities have the tools to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies, anchoring these strategies ...
This thesis investigates the role of external stakeholder management in fostering resilience within infra-structure projects, focusing on the complexities arising from interactions between stakeholders and pro-ject organizations. The research problem centres on how different stak ...
Infrastructure and urban development projects continue to experience problems and tensions when it comes to external stakeholders, even though the importance of collaboration and dialogue between the external stakeholders and project developers is being increasingly stressed. The ...

Adaptive Urbanism

The Role of Collaboration in Water-Adaptive Design

This thesis examines the role of collaboration in water-adaptive urban development, focusing on the residential location selection process in the Netherlands. It identifies challenges in balancing housing demands with water and environmental constraints, exploring the Collaborati ...
The Mekong Delta in Vietnam, one of the world’s most fertile and ecologically rich deltas, faces environmental challenges that threaten its biodiversity and local communities. Historically, the delta’s extensive mangrove forests provided natural coastal protection, but in recent ...

The Portfolio Approach in Dutch Public Projects

Principles, Actions and Effects explored in Infrastructure Renewal

The Netherlands faces a significant challenge in addressing the vast renewal and renovation needs of its aging infrastructure. The portfolio approach offers a methodology to manage this task. By viewing projects as part of a larger portfolio rather than as isolated entities, this ...
Nowadays, it is a fact that there is an extremely high demand for hiring people almost every three months in the industry, so companies need to improve mentoring programs and accelerate the onboarding of new hires, particularly in hybrid work environments. This research study exp ...
This thesis explores the potential of utilizing Generative AI to enhance knowledge contextualization among stakeholders to promote circularity in the construction industry. Circularity, essential for sustainable development, demands a shift from the linear “take- make-dispose” mo ...
This graduation project investigates the integration of green concrete in construction projects for sustainable development. Green concrete, characterized by the use of recycled materials, reduced cement content, and environment-friendly processes, is crucial in minimizing the co ...

Sustainable Real Estate Development Canvas

An approach for aligning the strategic and project level to achieve sustainable development concepts

Real estate development faces numerous challenges due to the dynamic market, socio-economic developments, but also deep-rooted mentalities and practices in the sector. Real estate developers need to innovate at both a strategic and business level to overcome these challenges and ...
This master thesis is focused on developing a comprehensive decision-making framework for the bidding process of innovative projects in the EPC industry. The research explores the current literature on the bidding process, risks, uncertainties, managing risks during the bidding p ...
This research examines how construction project managers in China integrate sustainability into their decision-making processes despite other constraints, such as cost, time, and quality. Using a Q-methodology, the study reveals a variety of managers' perspectives and strategies ...

A Study into Cloud Forests

The installation of a long-term setup to investigate the impact of a cloud forest canopy on the Mestelá River catchment and its effect on various stakeholders

The research question addressed in this study is ”To what extent does the presence of a cloud forest canopy impact the Mestelá River catchment and how will this affect the various involved stakeholders?”. The study aims to investigate the importance of cloud forests in the Mestel ...

Disaster resilient Galveston

A multidisciplinary project on the design of sustainable measures to counteract coastal and pluvial flooding issues in Galveston

The report tackles Galveston's flooding challenges, which are currently in development with the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) ring barrier. However, the current design, predominantly addressing coastal flooding, falls short in dealing with pluvial flooding, relying heavily o ...

Sustainability in multinational construction projects

Understanding the barriers and drivers, to increase sustainability inclusion via ecopreneurial leadership

Qualitative research into management of multinational construction projects. This research entailed gathering data both from theory and practice, on how sustainability is included and managed, throughout the project process. Which was then compared and used to notice opportunitie ...