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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Water-kennis: an immersive media experience

Turn on your tap, shower or flush your toilet, and clean water flows out. But where does this water come from? The availability of enough clean water has become an issue for…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
TUBES as a controlled test environment for low-threshold pilot projects

In this project, we are investigating the possibilities and limitations of distributed-optical-fibre detection techniques in a controlled test environment. This projectis being organised in a broad alliance of…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Strategic decision-making for IAM: what can serious games contribute?

Drinking water companies can use serious games or other decision-support tools to help with strategic decision-making about issues relating to integrated asset management. This project will result in…

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Looking ahead
Futures studies and response strategies
Knowledge exchange and stimulation of integrated asset management research

In this project within the Joint Research Programme of KWR and the water utilities, knowledge-exchange meetings were organised to define the building blocks, which water utilities can use…

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Society
Stakeholder involvement and governance
360-degree stakeholder management

There is no doubt that it is becoming increasingly important for drinking water utilities, during their asset management decision-making, to recognise and take into account the interests and expectations of stakeholders. What is less clear, however, is…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Customer wishes and expectations in the management of assets

ISO 55000 defines asset management as the coordinated activities of an organization to realise value from assets. Drinking water utilities translate this realisation of value from assets into…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Application future failure frequency prediction method

The prediction of failure frequencies is important in determining pipe replacement volumes and replacement prioritisation. The predictions are used to prioritise pipe replacements, and are a factor in…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Peak consumption causes

Water companies need a water consumption model to help them size their production locations. In this project KWR will extend the day factor model (Vonk et al., 2017) with area-specific information, including garden acreage, and number of…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Assets: looking ahead to 2030 and 2050

Assets have a long useful life, which is why we need to have an opinion on (long-term and other) future developments. In this research project, we will analyse descriptions of existing trends,…

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Society
Valorisation
The decision-making processes for Integrated Asset Management (IAM)

In this research project, we will be describing the most important decision-making processes for assets and research, based on established theories of decision-making. We research which information is…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Organising the Veghel experimental plot

In this project, we are creating a scientific basis for the organisation of water company Brabant Water’s future ‘infrastructural experimental plot’ in Veghel for the specific area of expertise that relates to…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Data mining for asset management – survey and water sector examples

Data mining (the search for statistical connections in databases) is one step in ‘Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)’. Both have already been embraced by the marketing, medical care,…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Perspective and preconditions for the development and use of autonomous inspection robots in water mains

Asset management of distribution networks is currently based on generic knowledge and models of mains groups, supplemented by inspection data on a limited number of mains. Effective asset…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
From mains data to mains knowledge

Decision-making about which mains to replace, and when, is one of the most important issues for asset management regarding the distribution network. With decision-support software, water companies can select which mains to…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Knowledge-based rules for PVC mains

As a result of the large-scale use of PVC by the Dutch drinking water sector since the 1950s, 52% of the current drinking water distribution network is made of this pipe material.…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Customer perception/experience and infrastructure

Vitens has for many years focused on giving its customers peace of mind by providing them with water of impeccable quality. Under the heading of ‘customer excellence’, the company recently announced its…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Towards an optimal management of wellfields; conduct of two pilots

We still don’t know enough about how well clogging, energy use and treatment management can be optimised in an integrated manner, and the extent to which integrated optimisation…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Prediction model condition-determination of cementitious mains – Data mining phase 2

To further structure its existing mains replacement policy, Brabant Water wants to gain more insight into factors that play a role in the leaching of cementitious mains. It…

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Andreas Moerman MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Andreas Moerman MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager

Andreas Moerman a project manager and researcher in the Energy and Circular Systems team. Within the heat transition effort, Andreas works on developments in the areas of Aquathermal Energy/TED (Thermal…

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andreas.moerman@kwrwater.nl

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Peter van Thienen PhD
Principal scientist
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Peter van Thienen PhD

Principal scientist

Peter van Thienen is principal scientist in the Hydroinformatics team. From his background as a quantitative scientist, Peter, together with a number of colleagues, deals with drinking water systems from…

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Ralph Beuken MSc
Scientific researcher
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Ralph Beuken MSc

Scientific researcher

Ralph Beuken works as a researcher on the Water Infrastructure team. His expertise is in asset management of underground infrastructure, with a focus on knowledge building of pipe conditions, setting…

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Ralph.Beuken@kwrwater.nl

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Assessment framework to involve stakeholders in asset management

01 June 2021 — The sector study ‘360° stakeholder management’ systematically mapped out and analysed stakeholder involvement in three practical cases in…

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Operational Code for Drinking Water Valve Management

26 February 2021 — The new Operational Code for Drinking Water Valve Management (PCD 15) was recently completed. Drawn up as a…

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Water sector explores possibilities of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

07 December 2020 — Several water utilities are exploring the possibilities of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. We have long known that…

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News

Robotics in the water industry

19 February 2020 — The first 2020 knowledge-sharing meeting of the Hydroinformatics Platform was organised on 5 February, and dedicated to the…

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Blog

Navigating the Smart Water Journey

29 May 2019 — On the 15th and 16th of May the 9th annual Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) conference took place…

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News

Evaluation framework for technique choices in water mains rehabilitation

15 January 2018 — The Netherlands has almost 120,000 km of buried water mains. An increasingly large portion of these will now,…

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News

Uniform Failure Registration Database Workshop

24 October 2017 — Good failure registration is very important in underpinning a water-main replacement policy. Indeed, failure registration is one of…

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Blog

LESAM 2017 – Trondheim

26 June 2017 — LESAM 2017 – Trondheim – day 1 Today is the first day of LESAM, the Leading Edge Sustainable…

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News

New fit-for-purpose decision support tool for pipeline inspection technologies

27 February 2017 — Watershare is proud to announce the launch of a knowledge-based and decision-support toolbox for water and wastewater network…

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Article

Challenging governance research for Vitens

03 August 2015 — Customer excellence is of paramount importance for Vitens. To this end, KWR explored how Vitens can best attune…

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