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Reduction of Damage to Utilities & Careful Excavation

 

 

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ReDUCE stands for Reduction of Damage to Utilities & Careful Excavation. It is the abbreviation of an R&D programme that has existed since 2013 and aims for improving design, construction and operation of shallow underground infrastructure. ReDUCE started as a small scale cooperation between KPN and the University of Twente. By now it has become a broad programme that involves a larger part of the utility and excavation sector. The programme has finished several tens of graduations, research and development projects.

The initiative ReDUCE combines the governments, enterpreneurs, education and research and therefore favours a good connection between these organisations. A ReDUCE partner is an organisation that is substantively affiliated with ReDUCE research and also makes a substantial contribution to the continuity of the program, so that continuous capacity can be released to start, for example, PDEng projects. A PDEng combines state of the art scientific knowledge and a design problem that is practically relevant.

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Highlighted Projects
Impact of Spatial Transitions on Subsurface
Impact of Spatial Transitions on Subsurface

This study focuses on translating the underground spatial impact of redevelopments in public space, related to heat transition, electric grid upgrading, and climate resilience.

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Automatic recognition of underground utilities from point cloud scans
Automatic recognition of underground utilities from point cloud scans

Utility lines can be extracted from point clouds to support further 3D modelling and mapping. Doing this manually is time consuming, Jorn Kruiper investigated how to use machine learning for this task.

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Exploring and supporting Ground Penetrating Radar Deployment
Exploring and supporting Ground Penetrating Radar Deployment

Therefore, Dutch law (WIBON) mandates practitioners to reduce the uncertainty in the information about the subsurface situation through the process of utility surveying. One of the most promising non-disruptive methods is the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). GPR is a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic waves to investigate the subsurface. This study aims to explore, explain and support the decision making between trial trenches and GPR as a utility surveying method by developing, implementing and evaluating a Decision Support Tool.

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Reliability and disruption-coping in district heating construction projects
Reliability and disruption-coping in district heating construction projects

To scale up city district heating construction projects, processes need to be developed and reliable. Currently teams largely rely on experience and improvisation, making them skilled in troubleshooting, but less efficient in planning and anticipating disruptions. This thesis has explored anticipation and containment through the lens of HRO

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Data-Driven Prediction and Reduction of Excavation Damages
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Smart Utility Registration

Smart Utility Registration aims to develop a method for scanning trench data in more automated ways. It mobilizes off-the-shelf (preferably open sources) technologies to register deployed cables/pipelines. Currently, this process is laborious and involves many different workers, while new technology might enable direct registration by the jobsite crew.

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Optimising Optical Fiber Network Deployment
Optimising Optical Fiber Network Deployment

This project ran from 2019-2021 and resulted in a prototype Decision Support System, which provides decision-makers with insight in the optical fiber deployment process as well as the results of operational changes they may wish to make

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Implementation and testing of the CityGML Utility ADE Operations and Maintenance data model
Implementation and testing of the CityGML Utility ADE Operations and Maintenance data model

This project is aims to validate the developed CityGML Utility ADE Operations and Maintenance data model. To this end Federico encoded the UML diagram (concept model) and implemented this as relational database tables in a PostGreSQL and PostGIS environment.

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3D Utility Design and Engineering

This study explores the state-of-practice in 3D modelling at a mid-sized Utility Contractor.

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Pipeline Intrusion Avoidance Solutions
Pipeline Intrusion Avoidance Solutions

Collaboration with Australian Pipeline Sector. Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of pipeline intrusion avoidance solutions and providing context-specific decision support for selection.

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