MAINTENANCE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT ON AND AROUND THE WATER

Asset management in the infrastructure sector is the smart management of all assets that are of value to the (water) infrastructure. Examples include structures such as bridges, locks and pumping stations, but also less visible assets such as the soil and bank protection of waterways and rivers.

It includes planning, realizing, maintaining and removing these assets in a way that improves performance, reduces costs and minimizes risks. With the goal of keeping our infrastructure navigable and safe. Our country is currently facing the biggest maintenance challenge ever. Much of our (wet) infrastructure is at the end of its useful life and in need of renovation or replacement.

Managing assets
On a large scale we support governments, such as the Department of Public Works, water boards, provinces and municipalities, in managing their assets. For example, we currently maintain 250km of river, 87km of canal and 2486 groynes on the IJssel, Lower Rhine, Lek and Twente canals. We ensure that the rivers and canals remain at depth and navigable and keep the banks and groynes in top condition.

In addition to rivers, canals and banks, we also maintain wet engineering structures. On Project Vital, from 2022 to 2028, we are maintaining some 12 navigation locks, 3 weir complexes, 72 bridges, 6 pumping stations and 50 outlet works in combination with SPIE, BAM and Dynniq.

Within this project, we are investing in smart ways of working in the field of asset management and data-driven maintenance. Through smart data analysis, we prevent failures and damages and thus limit disruption to (shipping) traffic.

In the central Netherlands, we perform similar maintenance on the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. On a stretch of about 80km, we maintain the large lock complexes. In these total trajectories we also include green maintenance of the banks and maintenance of paving along the canal.

We also carry out asset management on a smaller scale. On Lock 1 in the Blauwe As in Assen, we will be responsible for management and maintenance for 20 years after completion (2013). Especially for this project we are certified in accordance with ISO55001. This means that we demonstrably perform asset management in accordance with strict quality requirements and regulations.

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