Han Admiraal

Han Admiraal is a civil engineer (University of Applied Science, Rotterdam) by training and
co-chair of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association’s Committee on
Underground Space (ITACUS). In the past, he was a member of the Urban Planning Advisory Group
of the United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and advised the Special Representative.
As President of the Dutch-Flemish Pipeline Industry Guild, he promotes underground freight transport
as a sustainable and economically efficient model.

Over the course of his career, Han has worked for the National Department of Public Works and
Water Management, acting among other positions as Project Manager for the first machine excavated
(TBM driven) tunnel in soft soil in the Netherlands. Later, as Executive Director of the COB, the
Netherlands Centre for Underground Construction, he implemented visionary concepts on
underground construction and was a part-time professor of Underground Space at the Zeeland
University of Applied Science. Since 2008, he is the Owner and Managing Director of Enprodes
Management Consultancy in Delft, consulting in the fields of underground space and road tunnel
safety. He is passionate about urban planning and interdisciplinary dialogue between various
stakeholders and professional disciplines dealing with urban and underground development. Having
published numerous articles on this topic, he published his first book, written together with Antonia
Cornaro, in 2018.