Topics
9-10 November 2017, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Project initiation, planning and design
- Sustainability and added value
- Methods to develop sustainability in design
- Sustainability consideration at earliest stage of project development
- Understanding and using typical features of project region
- Stakeholder engagement
- Different perspectives on infrastructure development
- Handling uncertainties by risk- (and opportunity) based design
- Creative solutions by multi disciplinary collaboration
Environmental and social assessment, prediction, modelling and monitoring
- Pre-project assessment and prediction of project-attributed effects
- Hydrodynamic modelling of dredging works against background situation
- Monitoring of near-field and far-field effects
- Implementation of adaptive management for mitigation purposes
- Sustainability as performance criterion in contracts
- Education and training of local workforce
Sustainable working method and equipment
- Turbidity: reduction, source term prediction, mitigation and modelling
- Energy efficient equipment and working methods
- Sustainable extraction and placement methods
- CO2 reduction measures
Sediment management
- The relation between capital dredging projects and the natural sediment budget
- Maintenance dredging as a tool for sediment balance in estuaries
- Reuse of dredged sediments
- New evolutions in beach nourishment for eroding coasts
- Artificial islands influencing the sediment balance
- The impact of climate change on sediment management
Inland dredging
- Challenges of dredging and maintaining small inland waterways
- Hydrodynamic dredging of slow flowing canalised inland waterways
- Challenges of dredging and maintaining large inland waterways for uninterrupted service to the economy, environment and society
- Dredging of lakes and reservoirs to improve/maintain hydromorphology and water quality
- Hydrographic survey techniques for shallow waterways
- Advancements in sediment analysis to meet requirements of changing legislation
- Managing the conflicting demands of the users of inland waterways
- Specialist plant & equipment (and techniques) for dredging and treating sediments from small waterways
- Sediment management strategies for large waterways
Last update: 22 March 2017