Dion Oude Lansink has been working as a specialist, primarily in acoustics, for over twenty years. His area of professional activity at Pondera extends from permit applications to acoustic studies and reports – relating to environmental impact studies and permits. Due to his personal experience in the roles of both applicant and authority, Dion is able to effectively identify with all parties involved. He views it as a challenge to find a proper balance between the applicant’s wishes, the political establishment and surrounding residents – and to do so in a way that facilitates the progress of the project in question to the greatest possible extent. Dion is solution-oriented, reliable, open and attentive to the desires of the client.
Education, training and previous employers
Dion Oude Lansink graduated from the Delft University of Technology with a major in aerospace engineering. From 1998 to 2005, he worked as an adviser and project leader for the TNO sound department in Delft and the explosion protection unit in Rijswijk. He also completed a training program in Advanced Acoustics in Antwerp. Dion’s work at TNO involved noise-level calculations and measurements for road and air traffic, but also for noise in the vicinity of shooting ranges for the Department of Defense. After several years of living and working abroad, he accepted a position as a project leader and adviser with a commercial consultancy firm in 2009, taking on projects relating to environmental permits (under the Environmental Permitting Act) and spatial planning, with a specialty in acoustics. He also worked through secondments for the environmental agency of the Zuid-Holland Zuid region as a licensing authority for environmental permits on behalf of various municipalities and the province of Zuid-Holland. Dion has been employed as a specialist permits and acoustics for Pondera since 2014.
