RDM Campus

‘Cooperation in innovation at a

historical location’

Introduction

Cor van Asch

Project developer Real Estate Port of Rotterdam

Member development team RDM Campus

Contents

• Port of Rotterdam

• City Ports

• RDM

• RDM-Campus

Map of The Port of Rotterdam

5 spearheads for the Rotterdam Region

Maasvlakte 2

Renewal of City Ports area (1600 ha)

City Ports: about 40 km from the

Sea

Transformation to a mixed

urban living area

Intensifying port and port

related activities

Growth en intensifying of

port activities

Transition

RDM and Heijsehaven:

Learning, working, innovation

Location of RDM

A rich history

Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij 1902-1983

(Rotterdam Dry Dock Company)

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History RDM 1902/2006

• 1902 Founded;

• 1966 Merger Rijn-Schelde

• 1971 RSV

• 1983 bankruptcy RSV RDM-old (repair en off shore) † RDM-new (building for the Navy)

• 1991 part of Begemangroup

• 1994 location sold to a private person

• 1996 RDM out of Begeman

• 2002 location bought bij Port Authority

• 2004 RDM-T en RDM-S bankrupt

• 2006 start of redevelopment

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RDM ca 1939

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RDM ca 1950

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RDM ca 1965

Dutch Icons

Dutch glory:

The SS Rotterdam

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Two minutes before twelve ?

RDM Masterplan

40 ha land

30 ha water

Redevelopment of the

RDM area

April 17, 2010 B-RX 26 B-RX 26

RDM Campus Rotterdam:

Research, Design & Manufactering

Components

• Innovation Dock

• Droogdok

• Dokhaven

Droogdok

• Project office RDM Campus

• Rotterdam Academy of Architecture

and Urban Design

• Restaurant

• Conference rooms

• Offices

• Expertise and knowledge centres

of Rotterdam University

Dokhaven (The Dock)

• Fast Ferry Aqualiner

• Prototypes of ‘water houses’, a floating island (partly) on

water

INNOVATION DOCK RESEARCH, DESIGN &

MANUFACTURING

30 companies

800 students

Knowledge alliance between

companies and schools!

Academic & Vocational Education Innovative Industry

Education

Rotterdam University

• Car Engineering

• Architecture and Urban Design

• Civil Engineering

• Industrial Product Design

• Water Management

Albeda College

• Metallurgy

• Maintenance College

Market areas

• Building

• Moving

• Powering

Transformation

Participation of students in design of bodywork and use of hydrogen

Formula Zero

Ampelmann

Participation of students in development of a self stabilizing platform

Floating Pavilion

Participation of students in design and construction

Cooperation between Companies and Campus

What makes the Project unique ?

• Collaboration between higher & vocational education

and enterprises

• Innovative development of a brown field former harbour

area

• Research, Design & Manufacturing on the job and

under one roof

• Inclusion of cultural heritage

Thank you!!

QUESTIONS ?