Anders Jensen (Lifetime Achievement Award), Sina Saremi (Rising Star Award) and DHI project ‘Hvide Sande Harbor, Denmark’ were presented with top industry honors at the Dredging & Port Construction (DPC) Innovation Awards 2016 in London. DHI’s harbor project was highly commended for the re-design of
Ghent Dredging, a Belgium based marine construction company, has won a contract to re-open the Nederschelde waterway between Wijdenaard Bridge and New Bridge. This development project will include the stabilization and restoration of the existing quay walls and reconstruction of the Bisdomkaai, Bisd
Initial work is due to get underway on a new £5 million scheme to stabilize cliffs along the coastline at Clacton and Holland-on-Sea. Mott MacDonald has been appointed to carry out ground investigation and design works for the project. It will follow on from the highly successful coastal protection
A new five-year plan to better protect the City of York against flooding has been announced, Thursday 17 November. The Environment Agency plan sets out options to reduce the risk of flooding to 2,000 properties across 10 York communities over the next five years. It looks at a range of potential flo
Central Dredging Association (CEDA) will hold its next webinar – An overview of slurry transport models – on Tuesday, November 22nd 2016. The webinar is the 5th webinar in the CEDA Series of Webinars on Dredging Technology. This Practitioner level webinar is meant for professionals working in the fi
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has just launched the fourth edition of its Creating New HORIZONS magazine. “In our magazine we offer fresh perspectives from external experts and present projects and approaches that push back operational and technological boundaries,” Boskalis said. In this new edit
An Environment Agency field team has recently finished re-aligning the Newbridge Cut away from the River Windrush. In addition to this the team is reinforcing the bank of the River Windrush near Standlake in Oxfordshire. The work forms part of a program of maintenance works in the Thames Valley to e
In March 2016 Boskalis started work on Stage 1 of one of the largest nature restoration projects in Western Europe: the Marker Wadden in the Netherlands. The Marker Wadden, to be developed in phases over the coming years, is aimed at restoring the ecosystem in the Markermeer/IJmeer to allow nature t
The European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) is about to examine the latest developments in dredging from sea bed optimization to dredging techniques and technologies. This EMSAGG seminar, to take place on November 18th 2016 at the the Lyell Centre in Edinburgh, will cover the latest developme
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has added a new commission to its ranks: the Dredging Management Commission (DMC). This commission was set up to provide for initiating and facilitating discussions, innovations and questions from the dredging community on the management of dredging works in t
Van Oord’s water injection dredger Borr is currently working on the River Parrett, testing new methods of dredging Somerset’s rivers. The dredging trials, funded by Somerset Rivers Authority, are being delivered by the Parrett Internal Drainage Board and their contractors Van Oord. During the three-
Wartsila Sternguard In-Water Serviceable Seal (IWSS) has won the award for Innovation in Dredging Equipment at the Dredging & Port Construction (DPC) Innovation Awards 2016. The main ceremony and gala was held on 10 November 2016 in London. The panel of judges included industry experts, who chose th
Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have destroyed a Second World War German device found in Portsmouth Harbor during dredging work ahead of the arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth. The bomb was towed out to open waters 1.5 miles east of the Isle of Wight where a controlled explosion took place at 4pm yeste
A team, led by Royal HaskoningDHV and including experts from Deltares, Nelen&Schuurmans and Delft University of Technology, has received an innovation award for their entry into the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)’s Flood Risk Management and Modelling Competition. The comp
