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FLOATEC - EUREKABUILD

Sebastiaan van Herk s.v.herk@duravermeer.nl

Partners:

Supported by:

What I will tell you today:

Business of floating technology

Approach in EU collaboration

Experiences with EurekaBuild

Who sees business?

Business Case Rotterdam

Business Case Greenhouse

Business Case Infrastructure

Business Case Maldives

Floatec Context

Source ECTP (Bourdeau, Maas) ¨Risks: flooding… •  100 major damaging floods between 1998

and 2004 •  700 deaths in Europe and half a million

people displaced since 1998 •  Protection and repair of damage costs € 40

billion each year. Planned to increase up to €100 billion in coming years¨

Technological Objectives

•  Increase buoyancy, whilst reducing material need and cost to produce floating structure

•  Increase stiffness, durability and peakload resistance of floating structure

•  Increase flexibility of shape for specified applications and flexibility for production processes, e.g.: modular, thinner, mouldable, detachable.

Thus: •  LIGHTWEIGHT •  MODULAR

Applications

FLOATEC process

Creation: structured with human touch

Progress: adaptive towards business environment

-  Financial crisis -> delay -  Business case -> re-scoping & acceleration

Outcome instead of Output: •  Business cases •  EU RTD portfolio: Floodprobe, BEEM-UP,

Re-Model, etc.

EUREKABUILD: PROs & CONs

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Hitchhiking vs Trainride

+ Vehicle for collaboration, not bag of subsidy money

+ Shared interest partners & programme: flexible, empathic programme reps that allow more business focus RTD. ‘carrots’

- Different interests & commitments: Dura Vermeer with Min. EZ (NL) and Acciona with CDTI (ES)

- Less structured, less ‘sticks’ - 3 proposals

Recommendations EB

Cultivate Individual & Joint strategic interest: e.g. towards business cases.

Process management to: (a)  Align application process (b)  Stimulate progress in ‘slow’ times (c)  Seize opportunities to create ‘acceleration’

Thank You / Moltes gràcies

Sebastiaan van Herk s.v.herk@duravermeer.nl