The Environment Agency started this week the construction works on a major extension to Essex Wildlife Trust’s Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve, on the Colne estuary. The estuary has national and international designations due to its conservation importance and has recently been included in the Marin
The annual River Restoration Center (RRC) network conference which brings together professionals from all areas of river restoration will take place today and tomorrow at Whittlebury Hall, in Northamptonshire. Royal HaskoningDHV’s Senior Environment Consultant Phil Williamson will speak at the confe
Ports Normands Associés has announced a tender for the development works of the outer harbor in the Ouistreham Port. This scheme, with the tender deadline set for June 17th 2015, will involve a significant amount of dredging operations to ensure a level seabed providing equal water depths in this ar
An operation to dredge Rhyl Harbor as part of an annual maintenance program will get underway later this week. Approximately 22,000 tonnes of material will be removed from the harbor during the operation, which was given the go-ahead following a successful application by Denbighshire County Council
VolkerBrooks has successfully fabricated and delivered 190 tonnes of twin Rectangular Hollow Section (RHS) wailings, to assist with the extension of berth 9 at the Port of Felixstowe. To help provide structural support to the port’s newly piled quay wall, VolkerBrooks’ in house steel fabrication tea
Some of the world’s largest dredgers will arrive in Egypt over the next few weeks where they will join the crews that are already working on the expansion of the Suez Canal, reported the Middle East News Agency (Mena). According to Engineer Wagdy Zaki, executive manager of the project’s dredging wor
The Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Consejería de Fomento y Vivienda – Junta de Andalucía) has announced that the dredging operations at the mouth of the Guadiana river are completed. During this €856,000 dredging project, about 63,000 cubic meters of sand was removed from the area, which is s
The Dutch government has presented its master plan for a complete reinforcement of the 32 km long closure dam, the Afsluitdijk. The reinforcement is necessary as the seaside slope of the 80 years old closure dam is no longer strong enough to meet flood safety standards. The master plan also includes
Construction of the Sandwich Town Tidal Defense scheme is progressing well. At Richborough Road a new flood wall has been built and erosion protection works to the river bank are now complete. Although sections of the new flood defenses are now finished, there are landscaping works still needed to b
Janusz Piechocinski, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, has officially inaugurated the construction of the second deep-water berth in DCT Gdansk (T2). The T2 groundbreaking ceremony took place on Friday, 15th of May, 2015. The inauguration of the construction works was preceded by the round table disc
Isla Grande Terminal Dredging Contract Inked Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc. has further solidified its commitment to Puerto Rico with the execution of a $48.5 million construction contract for a new pier at its Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Boskalis Reports Good First Quarter [&
The Seminar on Dredging Technologies, hosted by Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center (APEC), will be held from September 21 until October 2, 2015. This two-week seminar will cover all essential theoretical and practical aspects with regard to dredging such as: navigating in muddy areas, strategies
The Littlehaven Promenade and Sea Wall project has been shortlisted for Civil Engineering Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards 2015. Opening in 2014, the Littlehaven Promenade and Sea Wall project continues to capture the attention of award judges across the UK. This lates
Urgent work is being carried out to remove gravel which is blocking the flow of water in a Gwynedd river. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is removing 60,000 tonnes of gravel from the River Dysynni as it enters the Dysynni Estuary, in order to protect properties in Tywyn from potential flooding. The bl
