Building on Weak Ground: Subsurface Reliability for Construction in North Holland

The 'Building on weak ground — Reliability TNO cards' dataset is part of a research report on subsurface suitability for construction in North Holland. It provides reliability classifications for borehole data used to assess the subsurface for building on weak ground and underground construction. The dataset was created by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is available via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Assess construction site suitability based on borehole reliability classifications.
• Model spatial distribution of subsurface reliability for regional planning.
• Integrate reliability data with other geotechnical datasets for holistic ground condition analysis.

Strengths

• Part of a structured research report with four companion datasets for cross-referencing.
• Reliability is divided into three distinct classes, providing a clear ordinal scale.
• Data is derived from borehole analysis, a standard geotechnical investigation method.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Calculated from borehole data, analyzing which drills pierced the Holocene package and their spatial distribution.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

North Holland, Netherlands