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People, facilities and software make Deltares
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Our goal is:
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To be known as an organisation that assumes
our corporate social responsibilities.
We will do this by:
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Including the factors referred to here as
structural components of our management
system.
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Adopting a relevant aid project that is
appropriate for our position and knowledge,
and communicating this clearly.
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Intensifying our communications about our
CSR activities and benefits.
4.4 Our experimental facilities
The economic and social added value of experi-
ments is increasingly recognised by our clients.
In many cases, physical testing is the only way
of quantifying a particular issue or effect, or of
validating software. In addition, numerous
innovations are generated by project involving
experimental studies, sometimes in combination
with field measurements and numerical models.
That is why Deltares has hydro- and geo-facili-
ties and environmental facilities. Some of them
are unique in the world. Major experimental
facilities for applied research are expensive but
they generate considerable social or economic
benefits. These social benefits are often not
included in cost-benefit analyses, which can
focus exclusively on costs. The challenge facing
Deltares is to make a convincing case and to
explain the economic value and the social
benefits of our facilities. Keeping a close eye on
the business cases for experimental research
should therefore result in an ongoing match
between the exploitation of our facilities and our
business operations. The Delta Flume in Delft is
our largest facility by far in terms of both size
and investment. Exploiting the potential of this
facility and others is our leading priority. Our
GeoCentrifuge will be decommissioned in 2017.
The investment proposal for a new GeoCentri-
fuge will be submitted to our stakeholders before
the end of 2015.
Deltares wants to recruit more experts in the
field of experimental research, or train them, in
order to maintain our ability to respond to
demand. In addition, in close collaboration with
our university partners in Delft and Utrecht, we
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