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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Los Angeles District has signed a design agreement to move forward with the LA River Ecosystem Restoration project at a recent meeting with city officials. The agreement was formally presented to Gary Lee Moore, Los Angeles city engineer, and Carol Armstrong, executive officer to the Los Angeles Deputy Mayor […]
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Reducing the risks of overtopping is essential for the effective design and management of flood defenses, particularly as these defenses are required to meet future conditions, including the impacts of climate change. HR Wallingford is one of the partners writing the European Overtopping Manual – known as EurOtop – which has now been revised and […]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, recently awarded contracts totaling $9.9 million for bypass channel design, Riverside Park construction and design of Gateway Park sites in support of the Trinity River Vision/Central City Project. The 1.6 mile bypass channel design will be accomplished in two segments with the north segment being designed […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
As part of a team, Moffatt & Nichol recently earned honorable mention at the international FAR ROC design competition with plans to revamp 80 acres of Arverne East in the Rockaways, a coastal community hit hard by Super Storm Sandy more than a year ago. Moffatt & Nichol served as the coastal engineering leaders on […]
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A deep layer of organic mud covers the bottom of Lake Apopka near the Winter Garden boat ramp and most of the lake bottom. This mud layer creates shoreline water depths too shallow for boaters to navigate without disturbing the mud layer. Suspended mud sediments cause two undesirable consequences: the presence of malodorous and aesthetically […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
AECOM Technology Corporation, a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, announced today that a joint venture in which it participates with HydroQual, Inc., has been selected to provide dredge design, engineering and permitting services to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) […]
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Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Deepwater Container Terminal Gdańsk to carry out construction design services for a new €160 million quay at the Port of Gdańsk in Poland. The upgraded terminal will be capable of handling 3 million TEU a year. The consultancy will design a new deepwater quay adjacent to the existing deepwater […]
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Even with over a century of experience in the dredging industry, Ellicott understands the need to incorporate the latest technology into all stages of its production cycle from design through testing. The Ellicott engineering department has recently integrated the latest in 3D CAD software, SolidWorks, into its design process. The intuitive design interface allows our […]
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The Petersburg City Council on Monday night authorized PND Engineers to proceed with design work on the $16.57 million drive-down float faci… (petersburgpilot) [mappress] Source: petersburgpilot, October 24, 2011;
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The Norfolk Coastal Storm Risk Management project just got another boost from city officials and the Army Corps’ Norfolk District. Col. Patrick Kinsman, district commander, and City Manager Doug Smith signed the design agreement Friday, clearing a path for USACE and Norfolk to share costs in funding and developing full designs for the first construction […]
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Global design firm Stantec has been awarded more than $35 million in assignments for planning and preliminary design of a multi-mission dry dock and other upgrades at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine. The projects represent tasks under Stantec’s $60 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for multi-discipline waterfront architect-engineering services for the Naval Facilities Engineering […]
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The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has selected CH2M as part of a team to deliver preliminary and final design services for the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project in the borough of Manhattan. A mitigation outcome of Hurricane Sandy, ESCR is an integrated coastal protection system that will reduce the […]
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Sunergy, Inc. is pleased to announce that Alan Trees, Owner of Gold Dredge Builders Warehouse of Riggins, Idaho has joined the Sunergy Advisory Board. Mr. Trees has over 35 years’ experience in successfully building gold recovery equipment and dredges that operate effectively in the harshest environments in the world. Mr. Trees’ expertise will now be […]
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Recently, CCCC Water Transport Planning and Design Institute (WTPDI) won the bid for Phase 1 terminal design project of the national deep sea base. Located in the east of Aoshan Peninsula in Aoshanwei, Jimo, Qingdao, the project involves two 6,000t scientific investigation ship terminals, an approach embankment and corresponding supporting facilities, is scheduled to be […]
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Scarborough Borough Council has approved the appointment of a contractor to design a scheme to repair and improve Robin Hood’s Bay’s main coastal defense asset. Previous studies have shown that the concrete seawall in the popular Yorkshire coast village is in poor condition and has an estimated serviceable life of approximately ten years, said the […]
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For Spicer Bak at Stevens Institute of Technology, being a beach bum and a PhD candidate go hand-in-hand. That is because this Ocean Engineering graduate student studies beach erosion to better understand how to protect America’s coastlines. Coastal protection is a major topic for government agencies, ocean scientists, and beach bums around the world. It’s […]
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The Port of Rotterdam is currently undergoing a massive extension called Maasvlakte 2. Between 2008 and 2013, 240 million cubic metres of sand have been deposited from which 210 million m3 is dredged from a sand extraction area in the North Sea and around 30 million m3 comes from dredging the port basins and the […]
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In the past dipper dredges have often been cobbled together with machinery designed to work in a terrestrial environment. When working in a marine environment their useful life is severely limited by the saltwater environs. Now the Netherlandss Yard De Donge… Source: MarineLink, December 29, 2009 [mappress]
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KARACHI: Construction work on a dredge tender and two pusher tugs of 10 tons Bollard pull each started at the Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works on Wednesday, a press release said. [mappress] Source: The News, February 4, 2010
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The first of five hopper barges, developed by Seattle-based Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc…. (marinelink) [mappress] Source: marinelink, September 19, 2011
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SUMMARY: The EPA is proposing to designate the Guam Deep Ocean Disposal Site (G-DODS) as a permanent ocean dredged material disposal site (ODMDS) located offshore of Guam… [mappress] Source:tradingmarkets,April 14,2010;
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Construction has begun of a new ‘heavy lift’ inland port costing about €32m at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, the world’s busiest manmade waterway, linking the Baltic and the North Sea… Source: Maritime Journal, December 9, 2009
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This month it will be exactly five years ago that Hurricane Ike caused enormous damage in and around Houston and Galveston in the US state of Texas. With more than $38 billion in damage and over 100 deaths, Ike ranks third in the list of the costliest hurricanes in US history. But it could have […]
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Business & Finance, Vessels
Dutch shipbuilding company Damen has launched a new Compact Stan Tug Series. With more than 40 years experience and expertise behind the three tug types, (the Stan Launch 804, Stan Tug 1004 and Stan Tug 1205), the vessels are designed to be strong, highly manoeuvrable and easily manageable for a one or two-man crew. The […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels
ECTMarine, a Dutch supplier of dredging components, services and design, has won a tender in combination with Goa based Timblo Shipyards, India, for the delivery of a cutter suction dredger (CSD) for an Indian government agency. Under the agreement, ECTMarine will supply the D&E Package (Design and Equipment) for this project. The D&E package consists […]
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The foundation design scheme for New Container Terminal in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, smoothly passed the review, showing the scientific and rigorous design management level of CHEC, which strongly promoted the implementation of the project. On May 6, the client formally approved the two major design changes of “selecting large cylinder structural style for breakwater” and […]
