Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
P.O. Box 8242
3503 RE Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31.88.0422527
Fax: +31.88.0429025
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Board member of ISCOWA, treasurer.
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Current Position
National Contact Point (NCP) for EU programmes LIFE and Horizon Europe, DIS, Circular Industry.

Previous Positions and Activities

• Programme advisor for the Environment and Technology Programme (ETP) at NL Environment. The programme stimulates the development and application of innovative processes, products and services that benefit the environment, with special focus to Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME).
• Programme consultant on re-use programmes (SenterNovem): specifically on recycling systems and re-use technologies for dredged materials.
  Activities: Start-up of a programme to stimulate the use of contaminated dredged materials or sediments in contruction materials in The Netherlands. Set up of monitoring activities.
• Project manager of Knowledge Centre for Environmental Technology and Regulations with InfoMil, the Dutch Information Centre for Environmental Licensing, The Hague, The Netherlands (since May 1998), a Task of SenterNovem.
  Activities: construction of a knowledge management infrastructure in order to make information on environmental technologies and regulations accessible; organisation of relevant conferences e.g. NOxCONF 2001 and DustConf 2007.
  Background: InfoMil is the Dutch Information Centre for Environmental Licensing and has an important role in the support of Competent Authorities that grant and control environmental permits to industries.
• Project manager for waste utilisation with Royal Haskoning (then known as Iwaco), Consultants for Water and Environment, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (until 1998). Involved in utilisation of mining wastes in high-valued building materials, management strategies and treatment for contaminated soils and dredged material, leaching of contaminated soils and dredged material and development of short leaching tests, waste water treatment, industrial water supply management.

Interests
Environmental knowledge management, Information Technology, Processes for upgrading Waste Materials, re-use.

Memberships
International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials (ISCOWA).

Dutch Royal Institute of Engineers (KIvI)

Education
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (1987).
 

Publications

Tools for assisting in the implementation of EN-14181 in the Netherlands for CEMS (analysers) and PEMS, CEM2006 conference, Paris 2006.

Encouraging the treatment and reuse of contaminated dredged material in the Netherlands. Wascon 2003, San Sebastián, Spain

Re-use of abandoned coal mining waste deposits for the production of construction materials: a case of innovative tendering (2000). Proceedings WASCON 2000 conference, Harrogate, England: Waste Materials in Construction, the Science and Engineering of Recycling for Environmental Protection. Waste Management Series, Volume 1. pp. 814-824. Elsevier science publ., Amsterdam. (also available on CD-rom)

Chemical aspects and acceptance criteria regarding the ripening of dredged materials (1997). Proceedings Int. Conf. on Contaminated Sediments (ICCS'97), Rotterdam.

Management of contaminated sediments within the Meuse river-system (1997). Proceedings Int. Conf. on Contaminated Sediments (ICCS'97), Rotterdam.

Beneficial use of contaminated sediments within the Meuse river system (1997). Proceedings WASCON ’97 conference, Houthem-St.Gerlach, The Netherlands: Waste Materials in Construction, Putting theory into Practice. Studies in environmental science vol. 71. pp.193-199. Elsevier science publ., Amsterdam.

Development of fast testing procedures for determining the leachability of soils contaminated by heavy metals (1997). Proceedings WASCON ’97 conference, Houthem-St.Gerlach, The Netherlands: Waste Materials in Construction, Putting theory into Practice. Studies in environmental science vol. 71. pp.679-687. Elsevier science publ., Amsterdam.

Re-use of colliery spoils in construction materials using Fluidized Bed Combustion [PDF,100KB] (1994). Proceedings WASCON ’94 conference, Maastricht: Environmental aspects of construction with waste materials. Studies in environmental science vol. 60. pp.655-664. Elsevier science publ., Amsterdam.

Re-use of Mining Wastes in Construction Materials via Fluid Bed Combustion and combined Energy-Utilization (1993). Proceedings 4th International Symposium on the Reclamation, Treatment and Utilization of Coal Mining Wastes, Kraków Poland. Univ. Agr., Kraków.