Research & Development
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Coastal erosion protection with KeyTERRA-FIRMA
Coastal erosion eats the shoreline several meters every year at some locations in Eastern England. P...
Royal IHC working on new type of hopper dredger
In an innovation partnership with the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat (the Directorate-General for Public Work...
Grasse River restoration wraps up
NY State DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has announced the completion of a significant Grasse River re...
Jan De Nul opts for Damen DOP250
At Noordwijk, the Netherlands, a number of electricity cables coming from wind farms located in the ...
New approach to hopper dredging by Cashman
Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting Company, LLC patented a new carouseling articulated tug and ...
IADC presents study on the ‘Ripening of dredged sediment’
In its autumn issue of the Terra et Aqua magazine, International Association of Dredging Companies (...
Scripps leads research on cliff erosion
A newly funded program to accelerate the science behind coastal bluff failures was signed into law e...
Long-term impacts of beach nourishment on shoreline ecosystems
Beach replenishment – the practice of rebuilding and restoring the eroded beach back to some p...
Protecting coastal habitats in Mekong Delta of Vietnam
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Union for Conserva...
MES to start pilot dredging project at Conowingo Dam
In an important step toward understanding the role that dredging can play in mitigating the effects ...
IADC Safety Award 2021 winner – VIDEO
International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just released a video about the Safety Aw...
IHC Plumigator boosts uptime and productivity
Since the release of the patented overflow innovation, the Plumigator, Royal IHC hasn’t stopped deve...
Young Author Award 2021 for Edwin de Hoog
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) bestowed the Young Author Award 2021 to M...
International Guidelines on NNBF for Flood Risk Management
Dr Todd Bridges, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature initiative at the US Army Corps of Eng...
IADC: Exploring the case of a new port terminal in Amatique Bay
In their latest issue of the Terra et Aqua magazine, the International Association of Dredging Compa...
Dr Todd Bridges talks about Engineering With Nature practices
In the summer issue of Terra et Aqua magazine, IADC posted an interesting interview with Dr Todd Bri...
Climate proof sandy coasts
In the face of climate change and sea level rise a climate proof coast is an important asset. Natura...
Nature-based Solutions for European rivers
With Germany, Belgium and Turkey still reeling from historic floods, Deltares recently released a ne...