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