dr.ir. W. Haanstra (Willem)

Willem is an Assistant Professor in the chair of Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering at the Engineering Technology faculty of the University of Twente.

Willem’s research broadly focuses on Life Cycle Engineering, an engineering perspective that can best be described as the assessment and improvement of the entire life cycle of products and physical systems, to make them more sustainable concerning people, planet, and profit.

Relevant research areas include Sustainable product and capital asset design; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for evaluating environmental and social impacts; Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Valuation (LCC and LCV) for assessing financial viability and value creation; Maintenance Engineering methods for optimizing reliability, availability, functionality and extending lifespans; The Circular Economy for organizing closed material and re-use cycles and supply chains at the end-of-life; And strategic decision-making as part of Asset Management.

As a researcher with a background in Industrial Design Engineering, Willem likes to bridge the worlds of theory and practice by asking and answering ‘how can?’ type questions, often in close collaboration with partners from industry. Previous collaborations include partners from the manufacturing, energy, and transportation sectors.

Other roles:

Chair of the Optimus Association

Business & Economics

# Asset Management
# Assets
# Life Cycle
# Life Cycle Assessment
# Life Cycle Thinking

Engineering & Materials Science

# Life Cycle
# Sustainable Development

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Life Cycle

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Maintenance Engineering (ME)

Jakubeit, N. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. (2022). Co-Designing Sustainable Coordination to Support Inter-Organizational Decision Making. Sustainability (Switzerland), 14(11), [6467]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116467

Ramtahalsing, M. M. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Systems Control in Railway Transport, Challenges Towards Managing Integration. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Ramtahalsing, M. M., Kuiper-Hutten, L. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Climate Change in Dutch Railway Infrastructure: Towards a Framework for Adaptation Strategies. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Holwerda, H. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Coenen, T. , & Santos, J. (2021). Application of Life Cycle Assessment and similar methodologies in Asset Management: A multiple case study. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3944549

Haanstra, W. (2021). Life Cycle Valuation: Designing a modular methodology for managing the costs and benefits of physical assets over their life cycle. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036551847

Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, A. J. J. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Designing a hybrid methodology for the Life Cycle Valuation of capital goods. CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technology, 32, 382–395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2021.01.017

Haanstra, W., Rensink, W-J. , Martinetti, A. , Braaksma, J. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2020). Design for Sustainable Public Transportation: LCA-Based Tooling for Guiding Early Design Priorities. Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(23), 1-17. [9811]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239811

Haanstra, W. , Martinetti, A. , Braaksma, J. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2020). Design of a Framework for Integrating Environmentally Sustainable Design Principles and Requirements in Train Modernization Projects. Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(15), [6075]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156075

Coenen, T. B. J. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, A. J. J. J. , & Santos, J. (2020). CEIMA: A framework for identifying critical interfaces between the Circular Economy and stakeholders in the lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Resources, conservation and recycling, 155, [104552]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104552

Haanstra, W., Gelpke, R. , Braaksma, A. J. J., Karakoc, I., & Den Hartog, C. (Accepted/In press). Integrating sustainability in asset management decision making: A case study on streamlined life cycle assessment in asset procurement. Paper presented at 25th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, CIRED 2019, Madrid, Spain.

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