That’s why, as part of its duty to keep the city safe, accessible and ‘future-proof’, the City of Amsterdam’s developed the ‘Bridges and Quay Walls’ Action Plan. As part of this plan, innovative methods are required to determine, among others:
- The current status of the bridges and quay walls?
- Which bridges and quays should be replaced or maintained?
- What is the cause of damage?
The City of Amsterdam’s program organization ‘Bridges and Quay walls’ is a mammoth task, for which AMS Institute has a network in place to help tackle the aforementioned questions. In line with the institute’s interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, this October 14th, a knowledge exchange meeting was organized.
The key question asked to experts of both businesses and knowledge institutes: what and how Monitoring & Sensoring technologies could best be applied to gather technical information about the structures of the Quay walls and Bridges of Amsterdam?