Edwin Dado

Ministry of Defense, Netherlands · Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA)

After the Cold War period, the operational scope of the Dutch Army Engineers has evolved from providing mobility and contra-mobility in a static military setting towards a more integral approach. This approach aims at controlling the military environment, providing safety for military personnel and civilians in a dynamic complex military setting du...

Institute for Construction and Building Materials | EAB Koenders

Life-cycle costing (LCC), originally developed by the US DoD, promises integrated insight in investment, maintenance, usage and disposal costs of weapon systems. In an era of tightening budgets, these opportunities have led to programs to tailor and implement LCC. At present, conceptual development of LCC concentrates on the asset itself and on def...

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The general goal of Taskforce Uruzgan (TFU) was to ‘promote stability in Afghanistan and support the authorities’ reconstruction efforts’. This multidimensional and ambitious goal was to be obtained through reconstruction activities, development and by creating a secure environment. The aim of reconstruction is often partially materialized in const...

Simulating the physical, chemical, material and structural behaviours of cementitious materials has been a challenge to many researchers for many years. Comprehensive analytical and numeri-cal models have been developed for all different scale levels and for all kinds of facets that characterise the materials typical behaviour. In the beginning the...

To respond to the increasing demand from government and society for improved performance of the safety and security professionals and supporting educational institutes in the Netherlands, four institutes for higher education, the Netherlands Institute for Safety (NIFV), the Netherlands Police Academy (PA), the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) a...

The intelligence community is responsible for delivering required intelligence products to intelligence consumers. Due to the pressure from consumers and society for better intelligence products and more efficiency, intelligence agencies started to evaluate their responsibilities in terms of process efficiency and quality. Traditionally, intelligen...

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Physical laboratory-based experiments and tests have become a fundamental learning, research and development tool in many areas of (civil) engineering education, science and practice. However, new areas of research in engineering analysis have come about as a result of the changing roles of computational models in respect to laboratory-based experi...

The vulnerability of road networks in emergency situations is a subject of increasing importance. In general, the identification of vulnerable spots in the network is important to identify the needs for network maintenance and for the allocation of emergency services. Although it is of crucial influence on the success of acute evacuation, the vulne...

This paper discusses the feasibility of developing an innovative, ambient, intelligent and document-oriented paradigm as an integrated working environment for the building and construction (BC) in-dustry. The goal is to provoke investigating an environment and its resident intelligent multimedia agents as a means to (1) maximising automation of the...

This chapter provides an overview of product modelling in the Building and Construction (BC) industry based on authors’ experiences gained from various conducted research projects and also taking into account results of other research projects. This chapter starts with an introduction and background of the subject area in terms of motivation, indus...

Recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) have created excellent conditions for profoundly enhancing the traditional learning and teaching practices. New modes of teaching in higher education subjects can profoundly enhance ones ability to proactively constructing his or her personal learning universe. These developmen...

Physical laboratory-based experiments and tests have been established as a fundamental learning, research and development tool in many areas of Civil Engineering education, science and practice. However, new areas of research in engineering analysis have come about as a result of the changing roles of computational models and laboratory-based exper...

In order to cope with the increasing demands from society and government for more efficiency and effectiveness, the Corps of Engineers is changing from a rather traditional institute to an innovative institute by adopting new techniques and technologies in the field of management, organization, manufacturing and information, communication and knowl...

In recent years, KM has become an important issue for the building and construction departments within the Dutch Defence organization. However, the current state of KM within the Dutch Defence organization can be characterized as very fragmented, redundant and overlapping, not clear about its effectiveness and sub-optimization. The cause of this li...

The information, communication and knowledge technologies supporting the digital media have created excellent conditions for profoundly enhancing the learning, training, teaching and design environments. New modes of teaching in higher education subjects and in particular design subjects can enhance one’s ability to proactively constructing his or...

The increasing market and society demands are causing the Building and Construction (BC) industry to change from a traditional into an innovative industry, characterised by co-operation, efficiency and competition. The Open Building Manufacturing initiative (ManuBuild) anticipates on the new situation but it requires a change in the needs of skills...

Physical laboratory-based experiments and tests have been established as a fundamental learning, research and development tool in many areas of Civil Engineering education, science and practice. However, new areas of research in engineering analysis have come about as a result of the changing roles of computational models and laboratory-based exper...

A significant barrier for innovative building processes is the use of fixed prices and fixed contract moments. A Value-Price-Cost (VPC) model has been proposed by De Ridder and Vrijhoef (2004) for an alternative value-oriented building process in which prices and contracts are treated dynamically. Key elements of this model are (1) the use of (adde...

For decades computers have influenced civil engineering education. Their role is significantly changed in due course of time in accordance with developments in both construction and information technologies. Delft University of Technology does not identify the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a separate subject for many yea...

In March 2004, the Task Force Sector Plan presented their final report to the State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science. In this report, the three universities of technology (3TU) proposed how they aim to create a single federation of Dutch universities of technology by combining their education and research programmes in order to enhance k...

In 2003, the three universities of technology in the Netherlands – Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and University of Twente – embarked on a cooperation aimed at the harmonization and coordination of their efforts in education , research and innovation. As a result, five new Master of Science programmes, which did...

In March 2004, the Task Force Sector Plan presented their final report to the State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science. In this report, the three universities of technology (3TU) proposed how they aim to create a single federation of Dutch universities of technology by combining their education and research programmes in order to enhance k...

In March 2004, the Task Force Sector Plan presented their final report to the State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science. In this report, the three universities of technology in Delft, Eindhoven and Twente (3TU) proposed how they aim to create a single federation of Dutch universities of technology by combining their education and research p...

A consortium of nine European universities submitted a proposal, in 2001, for a European Master in Construction IT (ITC Euromaster). This project was approved and supported by the European ERASMUS/SOCRATES program. The main objective of the proposal was to develop a joint MSc curriculum for ICT in Construction, providing students the possibility fo...

Software engineering and the design of advanced systems are part of the curriculum of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences during the last two decades. The students are offered a variety of interrelated courses at both under- and postgraduate levels. At its inception, the program opted for procedural software development design. The ent...

A consortium of nine European universities submitted a proposal, in 2001, for a European master in construction IT (ITC Euromaster). This project was approved and supported by the European Erasmus/Socrates program. The main objective of the proposal was to develop a joint M.Sc. curriculum for construction IT, providing students the possibility for...

Structural engineering in the Building and Construction (BC) industry is a discipline that is relatively well supported by advanced computer programs. In practice, structural calculations are more often carried out by analogue means (mostly pen and paper). The main reason for this trend is that often, structural problems can be easily solved by sim...

In early 2004, a large research and development (R&D) project was initiated with the working title “A Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) for the Building and Construction (BC) Industry”. The main goal of this R&D project is to facilitate and to improve the “knowledge transfer” between the academic institutes and the BC industry. Crucial to this effort...

Applying Product Data Technology (PDT) for neutral electronic communication between computer applications (including Virtual Reality applications) has been a popular topic in the Building and Construction (BC) during at least three decades. Although the first product models were developed to support communication in the design stage of BC projects,...

Applying Product Data Technology (PDT) for neutral electronic communication between computer applications has been a popular topic in the Building and Construction (BC) during at least three decades. Although the first product models were developed to support communication in the design stage of BC projects, several researchers proposed models that...

A consortium of nine European universities submitted a proposal, in 2001, for a European Master in Construction IT (ITC Euromaster). This project was approved and supported by the European ERASMUS/SOCRATES program. The main objective of the proposal was to develop a joint MSc curriculum for ICT in Construction, providing students the possibility fo...

The development of a Virtual Lab for model composite materials in general and concrete in particular, is the main issue that is discussed in this paper. The contribution to the stimulation interactive research and development for technological innovations paves the way for exploitation of a Virtual Lab that facillitates the interactive development...

Access to knowledge is one of the most important issues for modern project management. This especially is true for knowledge access that drives innovative design processes. It speeds up design and engineering processes of projects and will certainly contribute to keep risks of innovative projects within acceptable limits. Modern information and co...

The Building and Construction (BC) industry is an intensive information processing industry and the majority of that information is centred around the project. The nature and complexity of on-site construction applications, such as scheduling, cost estimating, project control, etc. make the task of providing and sharing common project information v...

Several surveys have been conducted in the past couple of years to determine the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Building and Construction (BC) industries of various countries. Although, these surveys showed that there is a clear evidence of a widespread (and increasing) use of ICT in the BC industry, the uptake of IC...

The European Building and Construction (BC) industry is to a great extent dominated by small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The BC industry is characterized by being a fragmented and highly complex industry operating by the principle of project related virtual enterprises (VE). The fragmented nature of this industry and the relevance of VEs fo...

Smart materials of the future have their roots in a nano-structured modelling environment. Highly adaptive material models have a shared and integrated basis of advanced numerical techniques while adopting modern information, communication and knowledge technologies (ICKT). It is a step beyond today’s governing material modelling, challenged by imp...

This paper presents a global overview of a virtual design environment based on multi-agent systems. Agents can represent virtually several disciplines and are able to negotiate with each other or with project partners. Such a system supports a multi-disciplinary approach even in the early design phase. Important components of this system are of cou...

The BC industry is facing major problems. The increasing demands from society and market for more complexity, better performance, lower costs and shorter lead-times, come together with stronger (European) regulations on safety, energy consumption, and environmental constraints. In order to cope with these increasing demands, the BC industry is adap...

Applying Product Data Technology (PDT) for open (“neutral”) electronic communication between different computer applications has been a popular topic in the Building and Construction (B-C) research community in the last two decades. While a “world-wide” PDT standard was lacking and available implementation techniques did not provide the required fu...

This paper presents the implementation and some early results of an integrated system for on-site application integration. The example applications used in the case study are virtual reality information sharing, site layout and crane planning. In earlier papers we presented an overview of the state of the art of computer usage and application for...

Applying Product Data Technology (PDT) for open (“neutral”) electronic communication between computer applications of different vendors has been a popular topic in the Building and Construction (B-C) research community in the last two decades. Although the first information models were developed to support application integration in the design/engi...

Application integration nowadays, means communication between applications through the use neutral product models. Product modeling, or product data technology (PDT) is the key technology for success. Although, the Building and Construction (B-C) Industry discerned the importance of open and meaningful communication between applications based on op...

A significant barrier for innovative building processes is the use of fixed prices and fixed contract moments. A Value-Price-Cost model has been proposed by De Ridder and Vrijhoef (2004) for an alternative value-oriented building process in which prices and contracts are treated dynamically. A key element of this model is the use of (added) value a...

In the last decade or so, design/engineering of building and construction projects is gradually incorporating advanced information technologies, like Product Data Technology (PDT). The main drive for this development comes from the demand for meaningful electronic communication between CAxx systems of various disciplines. Getting rid of the islands...