The municipality of Bergen op Zoom is assuming to overlook climate change problems and possibilities. They are missing knowledge on how to deal with a dry period. This is the reason of the requested for a research on the drought problematic. They want to know how different departments and inhabitants …

Stormwater runoff has severe negative and direct impact on the quality of surface waters and groundwater. The impact can cause chemical and heavy-metal pollution. Applying well established methods to map pollutants in urban areas and specifically in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), such as Sustainable Urban …

Klimaatadaptatie staat in Nederland hoog op de agenda en vraagt om een andere inrichting van de openbare ruimte. Grote regenbuien passen niet in rioolbuizen dus wordt verharding vervangen door groen. Groenvoorzieningen krijgen functies als waterberging en infiltreren regenwater in de bodem, zoals bij …

Water pollution by arsenic (As) is a problem in many areas of the world for both ecology and humans. To remove arsenic from surface water an environmental-friendly method called phytoremediation could be used. This method includes the usage of plants to accumulate toxins from any environmental soil, …

Fraeylemaborg is a noble house in an earthquake-stricken area of the Netherlands due to the induced seismicity events in the region. The structure is located in the middle of the town of Slochteren which gave its name to the largest gas field in the world upon its discovery in 1959. The gas extraction …

Urbanisation and climate change have an effect on the water balance in our cities resulting in challenges as flooding, droughts and heatstress. Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) can help to restore the water balance in cities by storing and infiltrating stormwater into the subsurface …

There are a lot of problems associated with clayey soil. More geotechnical pathologies appeared as more developed project brighten up. The geotechnical engineers encounter problems with modelling the stiff clayey soil behaviour especially while using the classical methods for obtaining the input parameters …

The Resilient Delta research group has been researching in infrastructures stability under a case study of ‘flooding of the territory of the Reimerswaal municipality.' For this, this research is carried out by the research group to check the effect of the flood on the railway. This research had aimed …