Introduction
Cor van Asch
Project developer Real Estate Port of Rotterdam
Member development team RDM Campus
Transformation to a mixed
urban living area
Intensifying port and port
related activities
Growth en intensifying of
port activities
Transition
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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
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
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
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