De Ondergrondse is the student association for masterstudents of Geo-Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of the Technical University of Delft. On this website, you can find information about our association, and the things which keep us busy. We wish you a nice stay, and please come back again soon because that's the way to stay up to date!
There are only 6 places available for this excursion. If you like to join, please subcribe the next GEO Drink @ Thursday 26th of April. We will leave at 14:00 to Amsterdam on the 3rd of May.
Lunch lecture by Fugro - Motorway A15 (English)
Tuesday 24th of April 2012, 12.30, room F
Speakers: Adriaan Louwerse and Ben Rijneveld
17-20 May 2012
A special commission is been working the last few weeks on a great and spectacular activity: A short study weekend abroad. This trip will be going to Budapest, the main capital of Hungary and will last from Thursday 17th of May till Sunday 20th of May. A group of about 20 very enthusiastic students will visit some interesting geological projects. Besides there will be enough time to explore and enjoy the beauties of the city. Unfortunately subscription is not possible anymore..
For more information click:Poster.
Photo's on this page!
It was a wonderful day full of great tennis games and a lot of fun. Everybody made some new friends, and the food was good (I hope!). To relive the GTT again, you can now watch the photo's over here.
Thank you all again for joining!
For more information, check this page!
And see the poster over here!
Every year De Ondergrondse will organize a Study Trip to a somewhere in the world. The first one of two weeks after the last exams of the year 2011-2012 are planned, so put them in your agenda already!
We are looking for some enthousiastic students who want to help us organize the trip for the upcoming year! If you are interested, let us know! Email us; info@ondergrondse.nl or just tell one of the board members you want to join, and everything will be fine!
To get a feeling about the Study Trips we organize, just read the report of last years' on this page, or view the photo's here.
We hope you want to join the KBR organization or just our next trip!
Sunday 25 September 2011 around the clock of 21.00, there would be the world wide premiere of the National Geograpic programm "Korean Superlink" on Dutch television. For the first time in history there would be a programm of Megastructures which is telling about a civil engineering project abroad which will be performed by a Dutch company. Structon Civiel is proud to be that company.
National Geographic Channel International talkink about Megastructures "Korean Superlink": 'A nation that never constructed an immersed highway tackles the challenge of building the deepest one on Earth. Everything about the project is super-sized. Each of the tunnel's mammoth segments is as long as two football fields and as heavy as an aircraft carrier. Yet all the segments must align within 35 millimeters -- less than a thumb's width. To compound the challenge, all work has to be timed around the fickle weather of the Pacific. And the tunnel itself must be able to withstand earthquakes and typhoons. Engineers will have to invent a raft of ingenious solutions - including a robot-like crane straight out of Star Wars.'
If you want to read more about this project (in Dutch), click here.
So watch it all; National Geographic, Megastructures: Sunday 25 September 2011, 21.00
In the Photo gallery we put some nice pictures of some of the excursions we did the last couple of months. We visited the second Coentunnel and the Noord-Zuid Lijn in Amsterdam and the big project in Nijverdal. You can watch the photo's here!
Tomorrow the last activity of De Ondergrondse of this study year will take place; the Summer BBQ. All our members are invited! It's free of charge, food and drinks included! So be there, just to wish your fellow members a happy holiday!
Ofcourse we made a wonderful poster to promote this.. We have one for boys, but also one for girls!
Today: the last Lustrum activity. The Grand Final: The Lustrum Gala Dinner!
The evening started wonderful; the sun was shining on the sea, the wind wasn't blowing that hard and the Beachclub looked very nice and peaceful. Slowly there were people coming; students, phd'ers, sponsors (from which we got presents for our Birthday: Thank you so much!) and teachers, with or without partners. It was nice to see all those people (OK, maybe not all the people because of the dates..) with the same passion: Geo-Engineering. When everybody had arrived, it was time to sit around the tables. After some nice words of our Chairman, the dinner started. Delicious. After two courses the table switch was there, so that everybody could talk with some other people also. It was nice, time flied, nice live music was playing and after the Grand Desert it was time to stand up and enjoy some nice (free) drinks, even while some of the visitors have had enough already.. Around 00:00 it was time for the students to find the Touring car, and some of us went on partying in Den Hague. When the last party animals touched their bed around half past four, everybody dreamed about this evening, I'm sure!
First of all we want to say to everybody: Thanks for coming. Without you all the evening wouldn't be such a great event! Thanks to Beachclub People for the wonderful location and the delicious food. Thanks to Krashna for the wonderful live music. And.. Just want to say that we had a GREAT evening, and we hope you enjoyed it too!
Because everybody wants to live this night over and over again, we made some nice Pictures!
Today was the second Lustrum day! While our Lustrum Poster said there would be a Geo-quiz, we decided to play some nice Bowling with some of our dear members! It was an awesome night, with party hats, lots of Strikes and Spares and a nice "little people dinner" with Fries and Apple sauce!
We had some nice prices to give away! First there was Ana, who won the price for "lowest score", and then there was Joris who won the price "slowest Player". Then the real winner of the day, Britte, who won the price of "Highest score" with 148 points! And last but not least, there was Lianne: she has won the cup! Just because she's Lianne..
Of course you want to see the photo's we made on this wonderful event. Click here!
We're gonna party like it's our Birthday!
This morning our lustrum-week started with the first activity. See the photo's for an impression.
The annual Civil Company Days are organised by students-association Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie". Practische Studie, PS in short, is the association of students of the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. After the succes of the last two years, this year the company fair will last two days as well, meaning you'll be able to meet more companies. Already its 25th edition, it will take place May 18th and 19th. The Civil Company Days are an excellent opportunity for companies and students to meet each other.
Apart from the company fair we are also working to make lunch lectures, case studies and workshops available for you upcomming to the company fair. These activities make the Civil Company Days the career event for the students of Civil Engineering! More information regarding the activities can be found here.
Warning!: Most of the activities are in Dutch only!
As you probably all know, this year is the fifth year De Ondergrondse exists! Of course, this must be celebrated! In the week of 16 till 19 May there will be a week full of activities, and one of the activities is the Gala Dinner!
At this wonderful Thursday evening a nice 4 course meal will be served at Beachclub People at Kijkduin (The Hague). Before and after the meal there will be some nice music band playing for you while you can enjoy the nice beach with your Ondergrondse friends and of course don't forget the free drinks! After the evening at the Beachclub, some of us might go home but we hope you will join us to have some more celebration in the centre of The Hague.
If you want to join this Dinner Party, and we know you all do, you can come to our room (0.0.43) and buy yourself (and your date) a ticket. You don't have to pay in cash; you can also pay later on internet with your bank account! So just come by to let us know you want to come, pay your ticket at home and come by again to get your tickets and your "beach theme gift".
We hope we can welcome all our Students, but besides that also our Teachers and Sponsors. If you like more information, don't hesitate to contact us! You can email us (info@ondergrondse.nl) or just visit us in our room 0.0.43.
For some short information (place, time, costs), also watch the flyer.
If you want to know what will be going on during the rest of the week, watch this flyer.
We can't wait to see you all on our Gala Dinner!
Zie ook de poster
Met gratis lunch!
Heb je altijd al willen weten hoe het is om bij een ingenieursbureau te werken en mee te denken
over inrichting, kosten en logistiek van een gecombineerde weg-spoortunnel tussen Duitsland en
Denemarken? De langste weg-spoortunnel van de wereld! Met een team bestaande uit studenten van diverse afstudeerrichtingen ga je op woensdag 1 juni a.s. aan de slag om de vele complexe vraagstukken die aan de orde komen bij het project Fehmarn Belt creatief op te lossen.
Voor meer informatie zie ook de flyer.
Fehmarn Belt
Sinds de zomer van 2009 heeft Witteveen+Bos gewerkt aan het ontwerp van een zinktunnel tussen
Denemarken en Duitsland: de Fehmarn Belt. De 19 kilometer lange tunnel bestaat uit een 2x2 baans
autoweg met vluchtstroken, een vlucht- annex leidingenkoker en een tweesporige treintunnel. De
tunnel wordt de langste gecombineerde weg-spoor tunnel van de wereld, waarmee de reistijd tussen
Noord-Europa en Scandinavie aanzienlijk wordt verkort. Daarnaast zorgt de aanleg van deze tunnel
voor een impuls voor de economische, culturele en sociale ontwikkeling in de regio en de landen
rondom de oeververbinding. Naar verwachting start de bouw in 2014.
Wie zoeken we?
Ben jij in de eindfase van je academische studie Civiele Techniek; Bouwkunde; Construction
Management and Engineering; Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management; of
Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics of heb je affiniteit met een van deze vakgebieden en ben je
daarnaast ondernemend, creatief en enthousiast, schrijf je dan nu voor maandag 23 mei a.s. in via
www.witteveenbos.nl/nl/business-course-fehmarn-belt en zie wat wij voor jou kunnen betekenen!
For more information about this day and about the program, see the website www.witteveenbos.nl/nl/business-course-fehmarn-belt.
Ben jij een 3ejaars- of 4e-jaars student en ben je opzoek naar innovatieve stage? Dan is Stagestad.nl iets voor jou!
Het doel van het evenement is om studenten te motiveren om een innovatieve stageopdracht te vervullen bij een MKB-bedrijf. Stagestad.nl brengt studenten samen met bedrijven door middel van informele netwerkevenementen (borrels) in representatieve horecagelegenheden in het centrum van Den Haag. Op deze avond kan je op een informele wijze netwerken met bedrijven die jou graag willen spreken en een stageplaats of afstudeeropdracht willen bieden. Zie ook de poster
Het eerstvolgende evenement zal plaatsvinden op woensdag 1 juni 2011 van 19.00 tot 23.00u. Schrijf je in op de website www.stagestad.nl en zie wat wij voor jou kunnen betekenen!
For more information about this day and about the program, see the website www.stagestad.nl.
Wednesday the 13th of April the Geo-Engineering Department organises a symposium about Challenges in geo-engineering, research and practice. If you want to join this interesting day, please send an email before 8 April to kcge@deltares.nl .
For more information about this day and about the program, see the poster.
Dear members of De Ondergrondse,
We are proud to invite you all to our study trip! This year we will travel to Prague and Munich. We will visit interesting projects and discover all about the culture and social life of both Munich and Prague.
General information:
- Date of the trip; July 2 till July 10 2011
- The costs are 300 Euro
- The number of participants is limited to 20
Subscription at De Ondergrondse, room 0.0.43, or send an email to kbr.deondergrondse@gmail.com with your full name (similar with your passport), date of birth, your email and phone number.
We hope you will join this amazing trip!
Deltares, in collaboration with market parties (such as Boskalis), other institutes and stakeholders, is developing strengthened sediment in a useful, safe and sustainable way as a new and innovative building material e.g. for strengthening and construction fo water-retaining structures and construction of roads.
The presentation will discuss the procedure of stabilizing the sediment, the process of geo-polymerization, the results of the various studies and the underwater laboratory test, the rough cost estimates, the first full scale 2006 test, the foreseen 2011 pilot projects, the (non-)influence to the environment and the social added value.
Lunch during this lecture will be provided!
On the 20th of April Navingo's 5th Maritime & Offshore Career Event will take place at the Beurs-WTC in Rotterdam. It is now hard to imagine the maritime labour market without the Navingo Maritime & Offshore Career Event. Between 11:00am and 6:00pm you are most welcome to the biggest event for career and training in the maritime and offshore sector.
This site contains everything you need for your guidance on a career in this exciting and thriving industries. You will find here hundreds of maritime jobs (technical and nautical), information about employers in the maritime and offshore sector and everything you need to know to prepare as best as a visit to the Navingo Maritime & Offshore Career Event 2011!
If you want to know more or to subscribe for this event, visit the website; www.maritimeoffshorecareerevent.com
This year, after our last exams are finised, De Ondergrondse will go with some of her dear members on an exciting Study Trip! This trip will be organised by some of our members, and for this year Joris Bol, Thijs de Blaaij and Tim van den Bosch will give all they have to organise a special Trip for us!
If you want to read more about the KBR Commission and already organised Study Trips, go here or watch some of the photo's of last year's Trip here!
Because the winter season is of course the best season to eat outside De Ondergrondse will organize a nice Winter BBQ for all their dear members and sponsors. For only €5 you can eat and drink whatever you want!
If you want to join, please subscribe at room 0.0.43
This is the new date for the lunchlecture which was canceled before
The plan entitled AMFORA (the Dutch acronym for Alternative Multifunctional Underground Space Amsterdam), involves constructing and creating multifunctional underground space beneath the canals of Amsterdam.
Currently the area between the Amstel Hotel and the Stopera is made in more detail. A presentation about this area will be given by Bas Obladen in Dutch. Mr. Obladen is the deviser of the AMFORA plan. Lunch during this lecture will be provided!
Due to illness of mr. Obladen the lunchlecture will be moved to a later date.
This Thursday, the 16th of December, Johan Haan (once the chairman of De Ondergrondse) from Fugro Water Services will give a afternoon guest lecture about urban water and planning. He will also tell about the technique of subsurface energy storage (which would be an interesting part for us) and some projects where Fugro has implemented this technique.
The afternoon guest lecture will start at 16:30 in room 4.98. After the guest lecture there will be drinks near 4.74, this is also a good moment to close off the year with your fellow students and colleagues!
Today in the news; Spoorzone Delft will have a delay of 2 years!
From now on you can also follow us on Twitter.
Our Facebookpage has 25 "likes" now so we can have our own URL and with that our own Like Button! More easy for new people to like our Facebookpage! If you like it, it's easy to stay up to date! In the future we will also put our News on the Facebookpage.
It was all fun at the Geo Christmas Drink. The beer tasted good and the Ham was delicious! Everybody thanks for coming! There are some photo's to feel the vibe again..
Hope to see you all (again) on the next drink!
The excursion to Maasvlakte 2 was cold, but it was worth it. If you want to feel the Maasvlakte Spirit again, or if you were not there with us and want to see what we saw, watch the photo's! You can also reed a little report here.
The TU Delft (Timo Heimovaara and Leon van Paassen) submitted 4 proposals within the STW Perspective program "Bio-based Geo- and Civil Engineering for a Sustainable Society". Last week, The Technology Foundation STW brought us the exciting news that 3 of the 4 proposals are granted! The TU Delft will receive about 750.000 Euro from STW and co-funding from industrial partners for three PhD students, 0.4 technician and materials for the coming 4 years!
We all understand that this is a perfect reason for some celebration. We therefore invite you to the Special Geo Drink at Thursday 9 December. There will be some good music and of course some delicious refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Friday the 17th of December Ingeokring will arrange a symposium about mining and dredging. There will be some interesting talks about the innovations in Geo-Engineering Practice at these two fields. The program will start at 14.30 and ends around 17.00 with some drinks at the Geo-Engineering Lab. You can register by email; w.verwaal@tudelft.nl
For more information about the presentations, see the poster
Thursday the 2th of December there will be an excursion to the Maasvlakte 2. Maybe you have seen some of the posters for this event already. The excursion will be free for all the members of De Ondergrondse. We are going to see the sights and an ingenieur of Boskalis is going to tell us some interesting information about the project.
If you want to join us to this great project, please subscribe at the list at our room 0.0.43, or just send an email to info@ondergrondse.nl.
18th November - Betondag (Concrete day)
On the 18th of November the Betondag (Concrete day) 2010 will he held in 'De Doelen' in Rotterdam. Unfortunately the plenary program of day will be in Dutch. However it is possible to joint and interact in English with the companies.
The foundation day is the highlight of the year. It's a day on which knowledge is shared amongst people from this field of work. Lecturers will lecture about al kind of subjects and the annual "Betonprijzen" will be distributed.
Like previous years, we have our own student cafe and there is enough possibility to expand your social network. De Ondergrondse provides their members the possibility to joint this day for free. This day will start at 9.00 and finish around 18.30. This event will be held in "De Doelen", Rotterdam. This is close to the central station of Rotterdam. Subscription is possible by email until Monday the 15th of November.
Regards,
For more information about the "betondag", 
.
9th November - Excursion Schuman-Josaphat Tunnel in Brussels
De Ondergrondse invites her members for an excursion to the Schuman-Josaphat Tunnel in Brussel on Tuesday the 9th of November. The visit to the project-site is organized by Grontmij and De Ondergrondse.
Lines 161 (Brussels, Namur) and 26 (Hal, Vilvorde) will be linked by a new tunnel with two tracks of 1.25 km long from Brussels-Schuman to Meiser. It will be constructed beneath the Cortenbergh road tunnel. It will then run under the place Jamblinne de Meux and avenue Plasky using an underground tunnel
The program will consist of a lunch, a presentation, a guided tour and afterward a drink. The tour will give a good impression of the activities which are currently being performed.
The exact time schedule is still uncertain but it will most certainly be a full day. The schedule for now:
- 09:00 Departure from Delft
- 12:00 Welcoming and lunch in Brussels at the project site;
- 13:00 Presentation;
- 14:00 Guided Tour on the project site;
- 16:00 Drink;
- 17:00 End.
If you are interested please subscribe by e-mail or at room 0.0.43 before the 5th of November, info@ondergrondse.nl. For subscription we need your full name and birth date.
For more information about the project, click here.
11th November - General Members Meeting
The Board of the Ondergrondse would like to invite you to the General Members Meeting (ALV) which will take place on Thursday the 11th of November at 17.00 hr. in room F.
During this meeting the new Board, which will consist of Thomas Nijssen, Simon Lembrechts, Geert van de Weg, Renee van Dorst and Mariet Pors, will officially be installed. Also we would like to present the current status of De Ondergrondse and review the previous year. The new board will present the plans they have for the coming year.
After the meeting we can enjoy several drinks at PSOR.
We look forward to see you there.
Set the De Ondergrondse website as your homepage to keep up to date!!
19th June - Vacancies and Traineeship Strukton
At the moment we are updating our website. In order to help students interact with potential employers we are adding vacancies from our principal sponsors. Interesting vacancies, traineeships, graduation work or just a vacation job are located at the principal sponsorship page. At the moment Strukton offers a traineeship for graduating students.
17th May - BBQ at the courtyard
On thursday the 17th a BBQ wil be held at the courtyard. This will be for members of De Ondergrondse and for participants of the study trip upcoming July.
18th February - Lunch lecture by Fugro , Foundation new electrical power plant E-on MMP3
For the foundation of the new fired power station, E.ON chose large diameter (1.5 m) drilling piles. A precautious subsidence analyses was done before making this decision. The predictions concerned with the behavior of the drilling piles were verified with stress tests.
18th February - 'Geo-Drink at the Geo-lab'
We would like to announce that the Geo-Drinks will starts again. The next will be the 18th of February. We were positively surprised that the attendence of the former geo-drinks was large, we hope that this trend will continue.
1st February - 'Excursion Museumpark Rotterdam'
To start off 2010 in the best possible way, De Ondergrondse and Strukton organize an excursion to the MuseumparkGarage on the 7th of January. The excursion will start at approximately 14:00 and will end at 17:00.
''The new parking garage is located in Rotterdam’s cultural district, the Museumpark. The parking garage is intended for visitors to the city center, the nearby museums and Erasmus Medical Center. In addition, one of the largest water storage facilities in the Netherlands will be built below the entrance of the garage, boasting a storage capacity of 10,000 cubic meters. When the project is completed, Rotterdam will be home to 1,150 new parking spaces.''
Please subscribe at info@ondergrondse.nl or room 0.0.43 before the end of this year.
7 januari - 'Midwinter BBQ'
After the excursion we will return to Delft and for those of you who are interested we organize a warm and cosy Midwinter BBQ. It will be organized at the faculty and costs only 5 Euro.
Please subscribe at info@ondergrondse.nl or room 0.0.43 before the end of this year.
12 May - 'Diepwanden Herwaarderen'
The program will be about the construction and applications of diaphragm walls and future techniques. De Ondergrondse is willing to arrange subscribing with De Betonvereniging and will carry 50% of the subscription costs.
14 May - Ingeokring Lecture: The Magnitude 8.0 Earthquake in Szechuan China
Niek Rengers, guest-professor on the Chengu Technical University, will present a lecture about the earthquake in the western part of the province Szechuan in China on the 12th of May 2008.
The lecture will be on Thursday 14 May at 19:30 in Room F.
Please send an email to Wim Verwaal for subscription: w.verwaal@tudelft.nl
28 May - Excursion Laboratories of Deltares.
At the moment we're arranging an excursion towards the laboratories of Deltares (our neighbours) in the afternoon of the 28th of May. We will visit for instance the very interesting Geo-Engineering laboratory and the Hydraulic laboratory at the Rotterdamseweg.
Studytrip St. Petersburg
From about 5 to 12 Juli the yearly De Ondergrondse studytrip will go towards St. Petersburg! Here we will visit for instance the constructions done by Boskalis on the St. Petersburg Flood Protection Barrier project.
