Context
Advise on decomposition of tunnels Creating logical clusters for maintenance planning
Our solution
- 01 With our expertise on the aging of components, create logical clusters for an efficient maintenance planning
What Oxand delivered
Tunnel decomposition advice
Advise on how far to decompose the components in the tunnel
Efficient maintenance clusters
Clustering of components to make an efficient maintenance planning
Questions about this reference
What did Rijkswaterstaat ask Oxand to advise on?
How far to decompose the components of its tunnels, and how to group those components so that maintenance can be planned efficiently.
Why does the depth of decomposition matter?
Decompose too finely and the register becomes unmanageable; too coarsely and the plan cannot target the component that actually drives the intervention. The advice sets the level at which maintenance can genuinely be planned.
What is a logical component cluster?
A grouping of components that age on comparable terms and are worked on together, so that one intervention covers the group rather than each component being visited on its own schedule.
What does clustering change for maintenance planning?
It makes the plan efficient: interventions are grouped where the components allow it, which reduces the number of separate mobilisations across the tunnel.
What expertise does the advice rest on?
Oxand's expertise on how components age, which is what determines whether two components can sensibly be maintained on the same cycle.