How do you ensure your sustainability and spatial quality ambitions are secured and achieved in hydraulic engineering projects? Michiel Wolbers takes us through the development and application of the sustainability dashboard on 20 March.

Last year, Royal HaskoningDHV developed a sustainability dashboard for dyke reinforcement projects on behalf of the High Water Protection Programme (HWBP) and Waterschap Zuiderzeeland. The aim of the tool is to help projects embed and secure sustainability and spatial quality in the processes. Using the tool, project organisations are helped to set sustainability ambitions and goals, encourage sustainability in the design process and keep track of sustainability and spatial quality performance and present it in a transparent way.

Michiel Wolbers was project leader of this innovation project on behalf of RHDHV and takes us through how the tool and the underlying guide work. The tool is primarily aimed at dyke reinforcements but also offers opportunities for other types of hydraulic engineering projects to include sustainability and raise awareness. In addition to the development of the dashboard and the underlying reporting tool, a serious game was developed to help project teams bring sustainability fully to the attention of the project and provide insight into the dilemmas involved in applying sustainability in projects.