Professor Dr. Léon Olde Scholtenhuis

Biography

Léon focuses on the role of digitalization in managing infrastructure, particularly buried utilities. His research involves technology development and studies of the impact of innovative technologies in mapping, modeling, monitoring, visualizing, and predicting infrastructure behavior. Léon employs action-driven interventionist approaches like Design Science Research, predominantly user-centric, to support stakeholders' activities and key decisions. He leads the ZoARG project, a national industry-driven program aimed at reducing damage to utilities during careful excavation, which commenced in 2014 and has expanded until 2025. Léon is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Executive Committee of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management. He coordinates the 4TU Domain Acceleration Team for the Digitalization of the Built Environment and has co-founded initiatives like UT FieldLab and DSI Digital Twin Geohub. Léon teaches various topics, including Smart Cities and Digitization in Construction, reflecting society's transition to smarter cities and the complexities involved in maintaining public infrastructure. His current projects emphasize identifying subsurface information for better lifecycle decision-making and implementing new detection and mapping technologies.

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