André Dorée

• professor
• University of Twente

Inland navigation structures (INS) facilitate transportation of goods in rivers and canals. Transportation of goods over waterways is more energy efficient than on roads and railways. INS, similar to other civil structures, are aging and require frequent condition assessment and maintenance. Countries, in which INS are important to their economies,...

The interlinked nature of today’s societal challenges asks for integrative approaches. The energy transition is an especially impactful challenge and presents a compelling opportunity to pursue integration, as it requires changes to space, landscape, infrastructure and organizations at different scales. While the added value of integrative approach...

Many scholars have denounced innovation in construction as problematic. Existing work processes and routines may resist or even block the adoption of new technologies. Unravelling how new technology interferes with organizational processes could facilitate a more mindful innovation process. This study, therefore, conceptualizes how technology pilot...

Stimulating innovation through public procurement can lead to improved performance, contribute to organizational and policy goals, but can also play a key role in addressing societal challenges that cannot be adequately addressed by conventional solutions. A significant amount of research has been carried out on stimulating innovation through the p...

The debates around the Urban Heat Island phenomenon (UHI) have gained momentum in the context of smart cities and sustainable development. It is crucial to understand the complex interaction between urban features and temperature variation in the city based on reliable and detailed data. Yet, the complex interaction between the UHI of the canopy la...

Improper design of construction equipment operator support systems can lead to the erosion of operators’ trust and ultimately failedadoption. Becausekeeping the end users in the development process is time-consuming and costly, this is seldom done. To address this issue, a new virtual reality-based framework is proposed in this study. In this frame...

On-equipment and practical sessions are indispensable part of construction equipment training. Currently, however, instructors receive very little to no technological support during these practical sessions, where they have to observe and provide feedback to multiple trainees concurrently. Therefore, the objective of this research is to develop a v...

A vast amount of investment in infrastructure is required to respond to short- and long-term social, technological, and environ-mental needs and developments. Because infrastructure systems are highly interconnected, much can be gained by considering these interdependencies when planning future investments. However, identifying opportunities that a...

Public clients’ decisions on the procurement and contracting of civil engineering projects have far-reaching effects on the development and implementation of innovations. Two decades ago, a trend towards the use of integrated contracts started to improve constructability and stimulate innovations. However, for radical innovations, the unilateral al...

The successful adoption of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) compaction Operator Support Systems (OSSs), which use sensory information to help operators improve the safety and productivity of their operations, is heavily dependent on the usability of the systems. However, there is a major dilemma in the design and development of compaction OSSs. On one hand, p...

The quality of hot mixed asphalt (HMA) is heavily dependent on the quality of the compaction. However, this operation is very complex, where a large number of parameters (e.g., logistics, weather condition, the skill level of operators, paver speed, etc.) play a role in the operation. To ensure high-quality compaction, operators and site managers n...

Data-driven sewer asset management uses digital sewer representations to store inspection data and to support predictive maintenance planning. This approach requires asset managers to determine what inspection data they need to collect for the assessment of the asset conditions. Existing studies review sewer inspection methods based on their techni...

The monitoring and tracking of construction equipment, e.g., excavators, is of great interest to improve the productivity, safety, and sustainability of construction projects. In recent years, digital technologies are leveraged to develop monitoring systems for construction equipment. These systems are commonly used to detect and/or track different...

Combined utility streetworks involve cable and pipeline owners and authorities that concurrently undertake work in the same physical space. In this networked project setting, ownership fragmentation and lacking formal coordination instruments complicate the integration of multi-stakeholder engineering and construction operations. Boundary spanners...

Sustainability is becoming a key factor in the decision-making process of infrastructure projects throughout their lifecycles. In particular, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the design phase is becoming a matter of significant importance, for both public and private sectors, given the long-term impacts of design decisions on the enviro...

The organisational data models that support the information needs of utility network managers are proprietary and domain-specific, while the emerging national standards in this field often lack lifecycle data representation capabilities. However, multiple types of utility networks can be comprehensively represented with the free and open-source Uti...

Purpose While the need for strategic alignment in public management has been recognized, there is a lack of conceptual clarity to support its application in practice. Focusing on the specific field of public procurement, this paper clarifies and illustrates how the concept of strategic alignment can be applied when strategizing the public procureme...

The collection and depiction of comprehensive and accurate information about subsurface utilities’ locations and attributes—also referred to as utility surveying—has been a priority in the planning, design and monitoring of construction projects for many years. Where internationally comparable utility surveying standards have established (e.g., the...

Data-driven decision support can substantially aid in smart and efficient maintenance planning of road bridges. However, many infrastructure managers primary rely on information obtained during visual inspection to subjectively decide on the follow-up maintenance actions. The subjective approach is likely to lack the appropriate use of inspection d...

It is generally acknowledged that creating strategic alignment is key to achieving good procurement performance. However, when it comes to aligning procurement instruments with an organisation’s strategic goals, the literature is unclear about exactly how such alignment can be created in practice. Focusing on the process of procurement instrument d...

There have been thirty-eight heat waves in Europe in the last century, seventeen of which were in the last decade. In urban areas, the effects of global warming are intensified because air and surface temperatures are, on average higher than in the surrounding areas, a phenomenon is known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). This research, therefore, invest...

This paper presents the development of a framework for performing real-time BIM-based life cycles assessment (LCA) analysis during the design process. The framework allows designers to perform an automated LCA analysis at any moment of the design stage and immediately assess the Environmental Impact Score (EIS) of their design choices. A prototype...

There have been thirty-eight heat waves in Europe in the last century, seventeen of which were in the last decade. In urban areas, the effects of global warming are intensified because air and surface temperatures are, on average higher than in the surrounding areas, a phenomenon is known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). This research, therefore, invest...

Abstract This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the development of optimal multi-year maintenance plans for a large number of bridges. A maintenance plan is said to be optimal when, within the given budget, a maximum number of bridges can be maintained in the best possible year, achieving maximum performance with minimum socio-economic...

Purpose The development of innovative procurement instruments can be costly and risky. To capitalize on successful innovative instruments, it is essential that these are reused. However, reuse can be problematic in project-based public client organizations. This paper aims to apply the ambidexterity concept of integration mechanisms to examine how...

Hot Mixed Asphalt (HMA) is the preferred and dominant material for road construction in many countries. HMA is very sensitive to the construction process and, thus, it is important to closely monitor the construction processes. Several Pavement Operation Support Systems (POSSs) have emerged in recent years. These systems try to provide guidance to...

Communities of Practice (CoP's) can perform an important role in the creation, accumulation and diffusion of knowledge within and across organisations. The project-based structure of production and extensive use of tacit knowledge in civil engineering and construction provide barriers for continuous learning and the exchange of knowledge over time....

Virtual Reality (VR) based training simulators are successfully employed in many industries (e.g., aviation) to help train operators and professionals in a safe environment. The construction industry has also started to use this technology in recent years for training operators of heavy equipment. However, the context presented in the available tra...

Previous research indicates that the presence of a champion in an innovation project increases the likelihood that firms will allocate resources to the innovation project. Relatively little is, however, known about how champions' presence exactly influences resource allocation. A case study of two innovation projects in the construction industry wa...

The role of public procurement as a strategic policy instrument has increased significantly over the last years. In particular, the use of public procurement to stimulate private sector innovation has gained much attention in European policy and academic literature. Moreover, public procurement of innovation has the potential to significantly contr...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that for frequently procuring public clients: the reasoning behind the use of procurement instruments is a process in its own right that requires managerial and scientific attention; modeling this process contributes to making sensible procurement choices; and managing this process is a relevant factor...

With growing service demands, rapid deterioration due to extensive usage, and limited maintenance due to budget cuts, the railway infrastructure is in a critical state and require continuous maintenance. The infrastructure managers have to come up with smart maintenance decisions in order to improve the assets' condition, spend optimal cost and kee...

Het IMKL2.1 is de opvolger van het IMKL1.1 en is zowel in topologie als vocabulaire rijker dan haar voorganger. Om gebruikers/ontwikkelaars van het IMKL2.1 er toe te bewegen aan de slag te gaan met het rijkere model zijn een viertal showcases ontwikkeld en beschreven binnen dit rapport om de mogelijkheden van het IMKL2.1 te illustreren. Gepublicee...

Infrastructure maintenance is a complex task due to operational needs of service quality, availability demands, traffic intensity, and budget constraints. Traditionally, maintenance decisions are based on infrastructure managers' experiences, judgments, and available choices. Though, the technology push and the availability of an abundance of data...

This paper discusses a conceptual framework for analysing the use of public procurement strategies to stimulate innovation in projects. This framework is developed as part of an explorative study, which uses a multiple case study approach to gain a deeper understanding on how and for what reasons innovation is stimulated in projects. The framework...

Bridge infrastructure managers are facing multiple challenges to improve the availability and serviceability of ageing infrastructure, while the maintenance planning is constrained by budget restrictions. Many research efforts are ongoing, for the last few decades, ranging from development of bridge management system, decision support tools, optimi...

Previous research indicates that the presence of a champion in an innovation project increases the likelihood that firms will allocate resources to the innovation project. Relatively little is, however, known about how champions’ presence exactly influences resource allocation. A case study of two innovation projects in the construction industry wa...

A persisting stance in practice is that obliteration of rules creates innovation paradise. Although it seems tempting, this view neglects that regulations may also constructively support innovation adoption processes. To stress these different roles that exist between regulation and innovation, scholars call for a careful empirical analysis of inno...

In about six months the project team conducted a literature review and expert consultation round. They identified a range of technologies that can be categorized into two types: global monitoring systems and detection systems, which in turn comprises local push detection systems and local pull detection systems. Monitoring systems essentially detec...

Afstemmen van kabel-en leidingonderzoek. toepasbaarheid van de Engelse PAS:128 standaard voor de Nederland-se geotechniek sector. Thom Brand Universiteit Twente Martin Pieters Geofoxx André Dorée Leon olde Scholtenhuis Universiteit Twente Samenvatting. In Nederland is het bij wet verplicht dat grondroerders voorafgaand een project zich binnen hun p...

Smart cities bouwen volgens de knieoperatiemetafoor: onderzoeksrichtingen binnen het domein van binnenstedelijke (infra)reconstructie Dr. Ir. Léon olde Scholtenhuis Prof. Dr. Ir. Ing. André Dorée Universiteit Twente, afdeling Bouw-Infra Samenvatting Het Smart cities-fenomeen is actueel en aantrekkelijk. Veel steden willen slimmer worden; sommige om...

Visualization Environments (VEs) can assist construction professionals in studying intricate interrelations between construction equipment trajectories and their context. Such VEs typically support them in either reviewing earlier conducted work or experimenting with possible alternatives. In the first case, VEs represent equipment trajectories and...

Coordinators of inner city utility construction works face increasing difficulty in managing their projects due to tight physical restrictions, strict deadlines and growing stakeholder fragmentation. This paper therefore presents a 4D CAD based coordination method that supports project plan scoping, formalizing and synchronizing. We developed and i...

This paper reports on an ethnographic-action research study of four-dimensional (4D) based coordination in three utility reconstruction projects. This research shows that implementation of 4D models in planning meetings supports mindful behavior, making stakeholders: (1) sensitive to operational processes, (2) pre-occupied with errors and inaccurac...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the reasoning behind the development of new procurement approaches by public sector clients. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach focuses on a procurement development process by a public sector client. It investigates the reasoning behind various applications of the pro...

Governments aim to increase the adoption rate of Energy Techniques and Measures (ETMs) for buildings. Although these schemes seem successful, the subsidised push for ETM adoption encounters budget cuts and policies aspiring deregulation. Governments face the challenge to develop a 'market' where ETMs are offered and adopted without the support of p...

The approach used to identify a compaction temperature in the laboratory, based on binder viscosity, provides a single compaction temperature whereas, on-site, a roller operates within a temperature window. The effect on the density and mechanical properties of rolling during a temperature window remains unclear. Consequently, asphalt concrete bind...

Construction projects are characterized by the existence of a number of different co-building companies that together deliver a constructed product on site. The work tasks of all these different co-builders need to be aligned to allow for the efficient delivery of the product. To allow for smooth alignment, all co-builders work together in the plan...

The on-site construction process undertaken by asphalt teams has a critical impact on pavement quality. Process improvement and learning require explicit information about the process. However, current on-site operational activities and key parameters are, in general, not systematically monitored and mapped. The lack of process information makes it...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyse, from the perspective of agency theory, differences between client and contractor in their perceptions of changes in uncertainty and in inclination to opportunistic behaviour while using a performance-based procurement procedure. In agency theory, dealing appropriately with the uncertainty and oppor...

Utilization of global positioning system (GPS) to analyze the movements of machinery during the asphalt paving process is a growing practice. However, the accuracy of GPS measurements is affected by a number of factors that lead to noise in the GPS data. Due to these missing accuracy in the GPS data the asphalt paving professionals have problems in...

The construction management (CM) domain regularly develops and explores new theories and perspectives. These new insights can shift the existing paradigm radically, they can be assimilated smoothly, or they can stall as they are debated at CM’s domain boundary. During our current research, we experience that the concepts from high reliability organ...

Traditional working practices in the construction industry rely heavily on the onsite experience and craftsmanship (the tacit knowledge) of operators and teams. This results in implicit learning and lengthy learning cycles. The aims of the research are to develop a deeper insight into construction processes and to instigate a change from current im...

Collaborative innovation projects are projects in which firms join forces to cooperate in the development and commercialization of a new building product, system, or service. They represent an example of the type of inter-firm relationships that are said to enhance construction innovation. Organizational behaviour research, however, suggests that f...

Although learning from projects has gained much importance in research and practice, progress in understanding and improving inter-project learning appears to be slight. We argue that the adoption of a sender/receiver approach limits the learning effectiveness in project-based organisations. Drawing upon the notion of learning as a social activity...

Given the various changes occurring in the asphalt construction industry, improved process and quality control is becoming essential. The significance of appropriate rolling and compaction for the quality of asphalt is widely acknowledged and vital for improved process control. But what constitutes appropriate rolling and what are appropriate instr...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are widely used to document the on- and off-site trajectories of construction equipment. Before analyzing the collected data for better understanding and improving construction operations, the data need to be freed from outliers. Eliminating outliers is challenging. While manually identifying outliers is a...

This paper proposes a generalized architecture that suggests an approach to extend utilization of Virtual Environments (VEs) in Civil Engineering. The architecture allows the combination of: (a) approaches to visualize previously conducted construction activities that involved multiple construction machines and (b) methods that support demonstratin...

This research investigates the role of 4D visualizations in enhancing mindfulness in construction project coordination. We introduce the mindfulness concept—defined as capacity to detect (potential) operational errors and take corrective action—to make a comparison of two distinctive coordination practices. To this end, manual and 4D-supported coor...

open access at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474034614000044 Construction work typically means producing on shifting locations. Moving materials, equipment and men efficiently from place to place, in and in between projects, depends on good coordination and requires specialized information systems. The key to such information...

Traditional contracting often leads to claims during construction by contractors, increasing transaction costs for both parties in the form of policing and enforcement costs. Partnering is widely advocated as a governance form to more cooperative relationships between client and contractor. However, partnering requires a significant investment in e...

In public procurement, most contractors view the qualifying procedures they are obliged to follow as time consuming and wasteful. For one category of public clients, EU rules offer an alternative to qualifying for each project. Public clients operating in the water, energy, transport or telecommunications sectors may establish and operate a so-call...

Although learning from projects in construction has gained much importance in research and practice, progress in understanding and improving inter-project learning appears to be slight. We argue that the adoption of a sender/receiver approach limits the learning effectiveness in construction. Drawing upon the notion of learning as social activity e...

Collaborative innovation projects are projects in which firms come together to jointly develop and commercialize a new building product, system or service. They are an example of the type of inter-firm relationships that are said to enhance construction innovation. Organisational behaviour research, however, suggests that firms participating in col...

To achieve project objectives, construction project managers have to manoeuvre through complex coordination structures. They have to simultaneously deal with limited budgets, tight schedules, demanding stakeholders and a fragmented supply-chain. Despite their extensive coordination efforts, project managers are frequently confronted with unexpected...

For fifteen years, the Dutch railway agency (ProRail) has implemented various alliance elements in its procurement strategies. Several project alliancing applications have been developed and applied in succession, ranging from a limited shared risk domain to a directly tendered full alliance model. The progress seems to be evolutionary rather than...

In the early 1990s, Dutch municipalities procured works mainly by invited tenders. The drive behind this policy was to maintain continuity of the relationship and cooperation between client and contractor(s). Towards the turn of the century the procurement policy moved to more public tendering. This was supposed to ensure more competitive pressure...

Documenting machinery movements by using positioning technologies, such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), is essential to understand and further improve construction processes. However, before measurements can be meaningfully analysed the documented movements should be filtered to exclude outliers. Eliminating outliers manually is a ti...

/* the next step of this research line with an example of a VR implementation is available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295085961_Visualization_environment_for_reviewing_and_experimenting_with_compaction_equipment_trajectories_in_context */ The quality and durability of asphalted roads strongly depends on the final step in the road...

Many studies emphasize the importance of government support in technology development. However, this study is among the first to provide empirical findings of the relevance of government roles for the performance of technology development projects. Based on earlier research and the strategic management literature, a theoretical model and hypotheses...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore the ability of a novel psychological theory of how people make decisions, narrative‐based decision theory, to help explain people's decisions about whether to continue investment in a research and development (R&D) project (R&D progress decisions). Design/methodology/approach The paper applies the...

During the hot-mix asphalt (HMA) paving process roller operators generally rely on personal experience and have little information about the in-asphalt temperature [1] . Information about temperature, however, is important for the final quality of the pavement. HMA mixes need to be compacted within a certain temperature window. Too hot may create c...

During the construction of new asphalt roads, compaction is the final step. Proper compaction is crucial for the road’s lifetime. The temperature of the asphalt mixture directly impacts on the compactability and therefore the construction process strategy. Ideally compaction should be done within a certain in-asphalt temperature window, with lower...

The paving industry evolves with introduction new asphalt mixtures and working methods. The continuous communication between machine operators and paving experts is essential for the professionalization of the industry. Visualization is considered to be a means to support knowledge exchange between both groups. Nevertheless, currently there are no...

Presently important changes are occurring in the road construction industry, resulting in changing roles of road agencies and contractors. Additionally, a lot of new asphalt mixes with new properties are introduced, such as warm or even cold asphalt mixes, thin surfaces, etc. Despite these changes, the current asphalt paving process still heavily r...

Full description at: http://www.google.com/patents/EP2666908A1?cl=en. Short description: Method for determining internal temperature of a paving material. When a mat of a paving material is distributed over the road, internal temperature of the material at any particular spot on the mat is determined based on surface temperature measured at that sp...

In 2010 the Dutch highway agency tendered an innovation challenge. Contractors had to submit ideas and strategies to lay a 300m lane of Porous Asphalt (PA) surface layer while the outside temperature was below freezing point. Up until then, contractors were willing to repair and pave PA under such conditions, but did so without giving a guarantee o...

Governments, regulation and road authorities push for sustainability. Firms respond with strategies to reduce their carbon footprint. Beside optimization of HMA production and logistics, firms invest in the development of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA). WMA is an asphalt mixture produced at lower temperatures. The majority of the research deals with the pr...

Asphalt teams follow different strategies for asphalt compaction: they choose different windows in time (start-end) and temperature (upper-lower boundary) for rolling (GPS logging data & site observation). These differences combined with various ambient conditions on site, make it difficult to extract a relationship between the chosen compaction st...