Noordwaard

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Noordwaard

The Noordwaard is one of the 39 measures resulting from the desire to protect the Netherlands in the future against an increase in river discharge and surge, without primarily raising dikes. The Noordwaard in its present form is a polder where people live and work. This relates in particular to agricultural use.

Perspective

"The choice for the Virtual Scale Model was made primarily to offer the residents and farmers a good perspective. It was difficult to express this in words", says Erik-Jan Houwing of the Noordwaard Office. "Everyone knows what actions must be completed to place the polder outside the dikes. It is unclear however what flowing water in the Noordpolder will look like."

A better view

With the it can be made transparant to anyone how the Noordwaard will behave during different situations", says Houwing. "The Virtual Scale Model makes these situations visible throughout the entire Noordwaard, but can also create an image from an individual mound. This gave the residents and farmers a better picture of how the Noordwaard behaves. Based on this image we could communicate with the residents of the Noordwaard in a more direct way."

Uniform picture

"The Virtual Scale Model provides a clear picture which communicates what is normally only expressed in words." With the Virtual Scale Model a clear picture of what the new situation will look like can be obtained. "It allows stakeholders to express what suits and what doens't suit the new situation from their feelings."

Collaboration

According to Houwing, 3D capacity understands what a client wants to do with a Virtual Scale Model. "3D capacity makes a clear proposal and is often checking whether expectations are still being met. The cooperation is based on complete trust and eventually leads to a product that can do more than what was originally intended."