Proyecto Concepcion

29/04/2018

Dear follower!

It has been a while since you have heard from us. Now we are all back from our travels and finished the exams of period 3, it is time to finish our Multi Disicplinary Project in the Netherlands. We will be presenting the results of our project to you on Wednesday the 2nd of May. The location is the building of Civil Engineering in room 2.98(2nd floor). The presentation will start at 12:30 and will end around 13:30.

We hope we will see you there!

17/01/2018

Dear followers, a week ago we had a meeting with two journalists of the University of Concepción. The article is published yesterday at their website! You can have a look here http://www.ing.udec.cl/noticias/proyecto-interdisciplinario-reunio-a-estudiantes-de-delft-con-alumnos-de-ingenieria-civil--2/ (it is in Spanish..)

El trabajo en equipo, el compañerismo y ser parte del desarrollo de un proyecto con valor social, son las características mencionadas po

15/01/2018

Dear followers, last update mail, which includes a summary of the project and what we did in our spare time, has been sent! We hope you enjoyed our updates and we appreciate all enthousiastic answers we got! Thank you for following us, and stay tuned for the date of the final presentation in Delft!

Regards,
Falko, Ronald, Wouter, Mathijs and Mark.

P.S. Check your spam folder again..

12/01/2018

Sorry for all of you waiting for the last update. Because we had an activity last night which we would like to share, the update will be sent Monday morning.

10/01/2018

Dear followers,
Tomorrow morning you will receive our final Progress Update. Sneak preview: a preliminary design of the breakwater and quay wall will be included! We hope you enjoyed all our updates. We will finish our report the coming week, and after that we will be off for traveling. But, stay tuned for information about our final presentation in Delft!

27/11/2017

Friday afternoon we had our weekly meeting with the Chilean professors and students! Great to learn from each other's experiences!

23/11/2017

Today it was again time for an update about the project! Hopefully it did not end up in your spam this time!

23/11/2017

Site visit at Quidico Bay! We explored the bay and its surrounding, performed some geo-technical (seismic) analyses and spoke to some local fishermen. The coming weeks we will work on the design of a harbour that will be built at this beautiful location!

21/11/2017

Last Friday we had a productive meeting with the Minesterio de Obras Públicas (Chilean Ministry of Public Works)! They provide us with technical data, Chilean building codes, guidance and support for the project. With this data we are currently formulating a thorough project description and problem analysis.

Today's planning: visit the project site, Quidico Bay! Pictures follow soon!

17/11/2017

After a long trip we arrived in Concepción! Today we explored the city and the university, tomorrow we will start working on the project!

09/11/2017

After introducing all the group members, it is now almost time to take the plane to Chili. Coming Sunday, the big journey will begin! We will arrive in Chile on Monday morning and then the project will start…

New collaboration:
We are glad to announce that BAM International has agreed to be the leading partner for our project. In this collaboration we have agreed to promote the company in the best possible way in the Netherlands and in Chile. Since we will be working together with the Department of Ports in Chile, this is the perfect opportunity to inform them about the work BAM International is capable of. The market in South America is a tough one for European companies to get a foothold in, thus improving the brand recognition in Chili can help BAM to inquire future projects in that area.
Last week we had a meeting at their head office in The Hague. We are very pleased that they made some time for a nice meeting to discuss about our project. BAM has a lot of experience in fishing ports around the world. Hopefully we can help each other to make our project to a success!

Meeting with Witteveen+Bos:
A few weeks ago, we visited the office of Witteveen+Bos in Rotterdam. We had a meeting with a Coastal Engineering specialist and an Earthquake specialist. During the meeting we discussed all kinds of potential problems we are going to face with during our project. Their experience helped us a lot about how to start with a project like this. Some useful tools and suggestions were given to work efficiently in Chile. If we encounter some other problems we can, hopefully, contact them again! We would like to thank Witteveen+Bos for their collaboration with us.

For those who did not know it yet: every 2/3 weeks we are sending updates by email with some nice pictures. If you would like to receive those updates, please send an email to: [email protected]

La próxima actualización es de Chile!

24/10/2017

Last but not least, we would like to introduce the fifth team member of Proyecto Concepcion to you: Wouter Sonnema

This hard working student is the only real ‘Delftenaar’ of the team, since he really grew up in the beautiful city of Delft. Wouter is a real sportsman as he does not only play football at FC Even Wisselen, but he also likes to sail a lot. He has been sailing his whole life on a high level, won many great prices and traveled to places all around the world for this beautiful sport. For a large part of his student life he also was a member of Team Delft Challenge, a student sailing team with whom he participated multiple times in Sailing Tour Arabia.

Due to sailing, studying abroad and traveling, Wouter has seen a lot of the world already, but he has never been to South-America before. Therefore he is really excited to go to Chile and is especially looking forward to all the trips he is going to make. After completing the project he will travel through beautiful Colombia and he is also really enthusiastic about the week-long trek through Patagonia, that we are going to make with the team.

After completing his Civil Engineering Bachelor, Wouter took a gap-year to get some work experience at two well-known engineering companies: Heerema Marine Contractors and Witteveen+Bos. After this valuable experience, he started his Master Double Degree in Structural- and Geo-engineering. His special interests are soil structure interaction, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. During the project in Chile he will mainly focus on the Geo-engineering aspects, but if Falko and Ronald need some help, he also can support them with the structural problems.

Long story short, Wouter is a real asset to the team as he is a hardworking, proactive and versatile student that keeps the rest of the group focused and has a lot of experience. But more important he brings a great vibe to the team since he likes to make jokes, enjoys a good night out to show his smooth dance moves and likes travelling!