Thomas Bles

Thomas Bles graduated in Civil Engineering and Management at the University of Twente in 2003. At Deltares he works at the unit Foundation Engineering and Underground Construction. At graduation and professionally, Thomas is very much engaged in the risks of realization of different types of pile foundations, sheet piling and horizontal directional drillings. Within these activities, as projectmanager he is directly involved in the development of the GeoBrain experience databases and forecasting models. GeoBrain aims at identifying, assessing and balancing risks of realization already during the design phase of construction projects. In addition to this, Thomas is project manager of the risk-driven soil investigation and pre-design of several crossings of large pipelines with civil engineering works such as dikes and canals. Thomas manages the Delft Cluster/CUR research project on monitoring of building excavations. He is teamleader of Deltares’ risk management team and moderates risk management in Deltares’ scientific council.