Case Study: Van Oord achieves actionable climate-risk insights to protect coastal ecosystems with Qlik Sense

Van Oord turns data into insight to protect coastal ecosystems and communities worldwide

Van Oord is a Netherlands-based, family-owned marine contractor specializing in dredging, infrastructure and offshore energy that operates about 60 vessels collecting large volumes of bathymetric and oceanographic data. The company needed to accelerate climate action and turn disparate, complex datasets into usable insight—overcoming inefficient spreadsheets, limited data lineage and the challenge of building broader environmental use cases.

Van Oord implemented Qlik Sense to create both standard BI apps and data‑intensive engineering visualizations, and built the public Climate Risk Overview to combine socioeconomic, geophysical and environmental data into high‑resolution models. Today 500+ users rely on Qlik across the business, the Climate Risk Overview has drawn global attention, and the insights help Van Oord identify coastal hotspots, prioritize nature‑based flood protection and engage stakeholders to support its sustainability goals.

Van Oord

Gerben de Boer

Data Scientist