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Hans Teijgeler Receives Royal Decoration for Pioneering Work in Engineering Information Standardization

On December 11, 2025, Hans Teijgeler was honored with a Royal Decoration Ridder in de orde van Oranje-Nassau during a ceremony at the Council Chamber of Bergen (NH), The Netherlands. This recognition celebrates his outstanding contributions to standardization of engineering information and data within the process industry supply chain, a field in which he has been a driving force for more than three decades.  Through his work at the Engineering Contractor Fluor which is a member of the association USPI, and his participation in projects under ISO TC 184/SC 4 (Industrial data), Hans played a pivotal role in developing ISO 15926, an internationally recognized standard series that enables Integration and exchange of information and data across the process industry supply chain—independent of specific software systems. His efforts have significantly improved the quality and consistency of engineering information in the process industries, and addresses growing demands for safety,…

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Article: “Car wash for data”: Best practices for Information and Configuration Management applied at Pallas nuclear facility

For those of you interested in how to manage the creation of a Common Date Environment (CDE) based on engineering information delivered by different companies using different engineering tools in a structured way, the article written by the USPI members Leo van Ruijven (Croonwolter&dros) and Jim Novack (Dynatec) provides a good starting point. Although the target group for the article are people in the Nuclear industry, the content of the article provides a good basis for those looking into doing the same for any other regulated industry or industry in general. The article is titled “Car wash for data”: Best practices for Information and Configuration Management applied at Pallas nuclear facility. It describes the Why, How and What for information from the engineering phase, the architecture of a Common Data Environment (CDE) that stores the information, and the process of making the information supplied by the different…

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