The wet civil engineering firm Land & Water is set to start work at the iconic National Trust property, Buscot House in Oxfordshire, this month. Under the project, Land & Water will be carrying out crest embankment protection works to the property’s lake, in response to a reservoir engineering inspe
DEME’s Retractable Ladder for track excavators has been announced as the winner of the IADC Safety Award 2022. The award was presented by IADC President Frank Verhoeven during the IADC Annual General Meeting. DREDGING CONTRACTOR AWARD Stepping on and off machinery is not without risks. Following an
Finding the balance between protecting coastline structures and conserving the environment is an important task. Nowadays, extreme climate events, such as droughts and flooding, are occurring at an increasingly alarming rate worldwide. Also, sediments and floating debris collect on structures during
The construction of the New Manila International Airport (MIA), the largest project in Boskalis’ history, has reached an important milestone – the contours of the new land are now visible. Under this massive program, around 1,700 hectares of land will be developed for the new facilities, located aro
Arctic Canadian Diamond Company and IHC Mining have reached the next important milestone in the development of the underwater remote mining (URM) system for the extraction of diamond-bearing kimberlite ore from deep open pits at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Arctic C
The joint project of DEME International and Van Oord to modernise the Swinoujscie-Szczecin Fairway in Poland has been nominated as a candidate for the IADC Safety Award 2022. DEME and Van Oord completed the Swinoujscie-Szczecin Fairway dredging project in March 2022. Starting in September 2018, the
The USACE Galveston District and non-federal partners Texas General Land Office, together with Gulf Coast Protection District hosted some very special visitors last week. The USACE Southwestern Division Commander, Col. Kenneth Reed, and Galveston District Commander, Col. Rhett Blackmon, gave a short
Van Oord and DEME have won a contract from Allseas in support of the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project, located offshore Northern Australia. According to the two companies, the joint venture will be responsible for providing support for the shallow water pipeline installation scope in Northern Ter
Earlier this September, Netherlands based Damen Shipyards Group successfully organised the first Dredging Seminar in Thailand. The Guest of Honor, His Excellency Mr Remco van Wijngaarden, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Thailand, opened the event by highlighting the existing cooperat
Royal Smals dredging crews are currently busy in Portugal. In cooperation with professional partners and authorities, Smals Dredging is executing challenging maintenance dredging works at ‘North of Porto’. “The entrance of a shallow tidal harbour with heavy currents is being desilted and with the se
Improving the maritime infrastructure – that is exactly what Van Oord crews do at the river Elbe in Germany. Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade and the global economy. To keep the German waterway at the right depth, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vax Ariane
Portland Port is embarking on its largest and most ambitious improvement project to date, investing £26 million in a major berth development. The port has applied for, and had approved, all the necessary permissions to carry out the project. The development will see the existing Deep Water Berth (DW
