About us

About us

Dareius is a subsidiary of Aveco de Bondt, an operationally independent, financially strong and enterprising engineering, research and consultancy firm. Aveco de Bondt works with ten programmes to achieve its ambitions regarding  societal themes such as urban transformation, the circular economy, climate change and rural development. To address water management and climate adaptation questions, Aveco de Bondt has amalgamated its strengths within the Water and Climate Business Line.

Dareius embodies Aveco de Bondt’s international programme, focussing on four competencies: Water Safety, Water Security, Urban Water Management and Sanitation. In each of these areas we support our clients with integrated digital solutions in water management, as exemplified in our Digital Twin approach. To accomplish this as effectively as possible, we teamed up with Wings ICT Solutions and Tethys Consulting in setting up ‘diTTo’ – Digital Twin Company. diTTo provides specific IT and Digital Twin services for integrated digital solutions in water management. Visit the website for more information ditto-engineering.com

Our Mission

“We research, design, deliver and advise on digital solutions. We interconnect knowledge areas, technical assignments, people and organisations in fields concerned with water and the subsurface. In doing so, we contribute to the creation of sustainable deltas with vital cities and healthy living environments – always with respect for the ecosystem: water, land, air and people”.

Our Vision

“Provide intelligent digital design for resilient, robust and thereby reliable water systems. We help create achievable and adaptive solutions to growing ecological and societal challenges, such as climate change and spatial planning”.

Our Strategy

‘Innovation by Nature’ is our strategy’s motto. After all, we want our measures to dovetail as closely as possible with the opportunities presented to us by the natural environment. Our clients’ challenges are in fact always embedded in an area, an environment, or a water and soil system. As thinkers and doers, we help public authorities and market players make their increasingly complex tasks comprehensible, manageable and doable.

This results in safe and reliable solutions at a reasonable cost. We focus in particular on urban delta areas in the world, because that is where we offer added valued based on more than 50 years’ experience as Aveco de Bondt. Knowledge and skills in the field of water are indispensable to guarantee the liveability of cities in the future. And a large number of water issues have become urgent because of climate change.  This is why we often take the initiative ourselves whenever we see realistic, sustainable and practically feasible solutions for our clients. Based on our clients’ ideas and preferences, we work with them to find the most effective solution.

We like to apply our Digital Twin approach in creating added value. This approach provides integrated support for the creation, management and maintenance of water infrastructure. Our Digital Twin value proposition contributes uniquely to improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness. We achieve this through advanced data management (ARGUS), a carefully elaborated Digital Twin approach (diTTo), and an asset management approach (diTAM) which is aimed at preventive maintenance.

 

Our Team

It accomplishing its mission, Dareius can draw on the extensive expertise present within Aveco de Bondt and diTTo, which is our joint venture with our European partners, Wings ICT Solutions and Tethys Consulting. Dareius is a shareholder in this Joint Venture. All told, we can count on the support of approximately 550 ICT and domain professionals.

All this knowledge and expertise can be deployed in our international projects under the guidance of experienced project managers. We are delighted to introduce some of our experts to you.

Maarten Kuiper MSc

Maarten Kuiper MSc

DIRECTOR OF DAREIUS and DIRECTOR OF THE WATER AND CLIMATE BUSINESS LINE, AVECO DE BONDT

Civil engineer and geohydrologist. Experienced in combining hydrological knowledge with practical civil engineering knowledge in areas where urban water, geohydrology and the human environment come together. Collaborating front-man, connector and innovator. Director of the business line Water & Climate at Aveco de Bondt. Deputy Director at diTTo engineering.

Em.Prof. Wim van Vierssen PhD

Em.Prof. Wim van Vierssen PhD

SENIOR STRATEGIST

Water scientist. Extensive international experience in complex, multidisciplinary innovation projects in the area of climate change and water management. Experienced science manager of several R&D institutes. Emeritus Professor at TU Delft, Wageningen University and IHE Delft. Former Innovation vice-president at Water Europe.

Water scientist. Extensive international experience in complex, multidisciplinary innovation projects in the area of climate change and water management. Experienced science manager, Emeritus Professor at TU Delft, Wageningen University and IHE Delft.

Prof. Christos Makropoulos PhD.

Prof. Christos Makropoulos PhD.

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

Expert in the field of Urban Hydroinformatics and spatial decision-making support for urban water and water chain issues. Professor at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway) and NTUA (Athens, Greece). Expert in the field of Digital Water. Driving force behind a large number of European Horizon2020 R&I projects.

Professor in Water Management and Hydroinformatics at NTUA (Greece) and an adjunct Professor in Smart Water Systems at NTNU (Norway). He is an expert in hydroinformatic tools and methods for water management, water-energy systems analysis and environmental systems protection. He has worked extensively on distributed infrastructure design and control, critical infrastructure protection and whole cyber-physical system modelling for Digital Twins.

Leon van Hamersveld MSc

Leon van Hamersveld MSc

Projectmanager

Geohydrologist and project manager for international projects with water as a structuring element in spatial planning issues. Extensive experience with sustainability issues. Expert in the world of data management and complex monitoring tasks related to water.

Luc Ponsioen MSc

Luc Ponsioen MSc

CONSULTANT DIGITAL TWIN SOLUTIONS AVECO DE BONDT

Hydraulic engineer, specialised in coastal water safety, with extensive experience in (sustainable) energy storage systems. Consultant in the field of Digital Twin configurations and their development, especially within the framework of the management of infrastructure for water safety.

Martin Schepers MPM.

Martin Schepers MPM.

PROGRAMME MANAGER WATER SAFETY AND EMBANKMENTS AVECO DE BONDT

Public administration technician, who has built up  decades of experience both as a contractor and in the public sector (Water Authorities). He connects both these worlds in complex water safety assignments. As a water safety expert, he is a member of the Water Safety Expertise Network in the Netherlands, and training leader for the post-academic education course ‘Implementation aspects of dike constructions’.

Sara Eeman PhD.

Sara Eeman PhD.

PROGRAMME MANAGER RESILIENT WATER SYSTEMS AVECO DE BONDT

Expert in the field of integrated water system analysis, where the connection is made between surface water systems, groundwater systems and urban water systems. Works as a lecturer/researcher at Wageningen University and a number of collaborating Universities of Applied Sciences, specialising in River Delta Development and freshwater supply in rural areas.

Lieselotte Tolk PhD.

Lieselotte Tolk PhD.

PROGRAMME MANAGER URBAN WATER AND THE SUBSURFACE AVECO DE BONDT

Integral water manager. Establishes functional connections between surface and subsurface water. Environmental and climate expert, extensive experience, for example, with the relationship between CO2 absorption and land use.