Bart-Jan van der Spek

Managing Director at CDR International B.V.

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

About

As a project manager in coastal and river engineering, I work on broad range of projects including, climate change adaptation, coastal protection, coastal morphodynamics, flood risk, port master planning, maritime infrastructure, mooring, navigation and metocean studies. I worked and visited several countries around the world, including Nigeria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, China, Guatemala, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sao Tome and Principe, Sri Lanka, South Africa, UAE, UK and Uganda. I further have gained strong experience in numerical modelling of waves, flow and morphology. My passion has always been statistics and I love to make my life easier by coding in Matlab and Python.

Experience

  • CDR - Coasts Deltas Rivers (Full-time · 10 yrs)
    • Managing Director
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Project Manager and engineer
      Aug 2016 - Jun 2024 · 7 yrs 11 mos

      As a team leader and project manager in coastal engineering, I work on a broad range of projects, including climate change adaptation, coastal protection, coastal morphodynamics, flood risk, port master planning, maritime infrastructure, mooring, navigation and metocean studies. I worked and visited several countries around the world, including Nigeria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, China, Guatemala, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sao Tome and Principe, Sri Lanka, South Africa, UAE and Uganda, I further have gained strong experience in numerical modelling of waves, flow and morphology. My passion has always been statistics and I love to make my life easier by coding in Matlab and Python.

  • Hydraulic Engineer at Royal HaskoningDHV
    Aug 2013 - Jul 2016 · 3 yrs

    As a project engineer I worked on several projects, many related to maritime, metocean and coastal protection. Projects included flood risk assessments, e.g. Rebuild by Design for Hoboken New York, MetOcean studies, e.g. wave and flow modelling and water level forecasting, Dynamic Mooring Analyses, e.g. including ShoreTension, and working on development of the Coastal Design Support Tools (CoDeS) and many other projects.

  • Graduate Intern at Boskalis
    Jul 2012 - Apr 2013 · 10 mos

    Development of generic method to deal with data poor environments within coastal modelling. Succesful stochastic approach on wave and hydrodynamic numerical modelling. Svasek hydraulics involved as second party.

  • Intern at business line water at Royal HaskoningDHV
    Feb 2012 - May 2012 · 4 mos

    Project focused on the integration of forecasted hydraulic conditions and levee strength, visualized on a online dashboard, for the east polder of New Orleans. Including 10-day trip to the USA for (the preperation of) a workshop.

  • Board member of the Student board of Hydraulic Engineering at TU Delft
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

    The student board of Hydraulic Engineering, "Het Waterbouwdispuut" has the goal to be the connection between the student and the department of Hydraulic Engineering. Also try to get the student in contact with the hydraulic engineering bussiness and vice versa.