HOW HAS THE ILPD BEEN RECEIVED BY EXPERTS ?
“Breach growth information is not only valuable in order to assess levees, but also to predict flood consequences."
Meindert VanExpertise Manager Dike Technology, Deltares
"It would be a shame if a disaster would occur in the Netherlands or elsewhere and, in retrospect, it could have been prevented by learning more from real levee failures."
Wouter ter HorstDirector, HKV lijn in water
“Failure databases are very useful to engineers for assessment and risk analysis and to researchers to identify the most important failure mechanisms and scenarios.”
Rémy TourmentChair of the ICOLD Technical Committee on Levees and co-coordinator of the European Working Group on levees and flood defenses
“Many of the volunteers in our 'dike army' are nontechnical. It will be very useful if they have a better understanding of what a real failure can look like.”
Martin van der MeerTechnical director, Fugro
"Information from real failures makes failure assessments less theoretical and abstract: we need to understand how levees really fail."
Matthijs Kok Full professor of Flood Risk, Delft University of Technology
"Students may use the ILPD for research and engineering projects and add their results to the ILPD to improve both quantity and quality of the data.”
Richard JorissenDirector of flood defenses, Rijkswaterstaat
“Real failures provide an invaluable source of information that can complement existing lab research and modelling work.”
Bas JonkmanProfessor of Hydraulic Engineering, Delft University of Technology
"The ILPD, as a global platform and a scientific tool, will support us in designing more robust and resilient flood defenses."
Ece ÖzerScientist Innovator, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research