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Integrating stakeholders in a dike reinforcement project : developing a methodology to efficiently integrate stakeholders in the design process of a dike reinforcement project.
Wilms, D. (2021) Integrating stakeholders in a dike reinforcement project : developing a methodology to efficiently integrate stakeholders in the design process of a dike reinforcement project.
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| Abstract: | This research thesis presents a methodology to integrate stakeholders in the process of a dike reinforcement project. With the upcoming automatization of designing dikes, a high amount of dike configurations can be calculated at once. This improvement increases the amount of calculated possible dike parameter configurations. The parameter configuration determines the impact the dike has on the surrounding area. Integrating stakeholders within the dike design process is a challenge with mutual benefits for both the stakeholder and the contractor. The stakeholders understand the consequences of design choices better, which saves the contractor time explaining decisions made. Since the stakeholders themselves will be working with the model, the contractor can use its time for other activities. Therefore, there is no downside to the integration of stakeholders within the dike design process. The first step of the methodology is to analyse the possible dike designs and the impact that the different parameters have on the amount of safe dikes and on the surrounding area. The impact of the dike design parameters on the dike designs is analysed to identify which parameter has the largest impact on the number of safe dike designs. This information can be used to efficiently reduce the large amount of dike design possibilities to a manageable number. The impact of parameters on the surrounding area is studied by defining six user functions (Living, Nature, Agriculture, Culture, Recreation and Transport). The sensitivity of each design parameter with respect to each user function is then analysed.. Three data sets should be set up for different users (Spence, 2014a): • one for a stakeholder unfamiliar with dike design, • one for a stakeholder familiar with dike design, and: • one for the expert stakeholders regarding this topic. These datasets have to be made considering the knowledge of the stakeholder. For the unfamiliar stakeholder dataset, parameters with low impact or which need extensive explanation are initially left out and in a later stage optimized by the automized model. For familiar stakeholders only low impact parameters are left out. Experts are provided with all parameters. When both the impact of the parameters and the knowledge level of the stakeholder are known, the stakeholder can be provided with their corresponding dataset, after which the parameters with the most impact on remaining safe solutions can be adjusted first. By performing this step, the stakeholder can experience the impact of certain design choices. Then, the leftover parameters are optimized for the chosen user functions by the model. In the end, the dike reinforcement generated by combining the stakeholders preferred parameters and the desired user functions is visualized together with the impact on the six user functions. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | ET: Engineering Technology |
| Programme: | Civil Engineering BSc (56952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/85859 |
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