Many urban bridges and quay walls (UBQs) in historic cities in the Netherlands show significant signs of overdue maintenance and/or are beyond their functional or technical lifetime. Changing value frames, technical innovations and new insights enable and demand a transformation in UBQ asset management practices, from solely engineering-oriented towards value-based and responsive decision-making. Yet, municipalities lack insight into the extent to which their current asset management decisions are responsive, and how technical innovations and knowledge advancements can be translated to new asset management practices (on strategic, tactical and operational level). Therefore, this project identifies how innovations and new knowledge are incorporated into asset management practices, and develops and validates context-specific and generalizable solution concepts (e.g. methods, guidelines, approaches) to support municipalities with the implementation of responsive asset management practices for UBQs. This project thus provides an improved understanding of how innovations and knowledge can be dynamically integrated into strategic, tactical and operational asset management practices of municipalities.
UBQ4 is connected to three other NWO projects on urban bridges and quay walls (Urbiquay), namely STABILITY, Logiquay and LiveQuay.
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