Mouchel’s Herne Hill & Dulwich Flood Alleviation Scheme, delivered in partnership with Southwark Council, has been shortlisted for the British Construction Industry (BCI) Awards in the Project of the Year – under £10m category. The £4.28m project involved teams from across Mouchel and was jointly de
The building of a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay has been given planning consent by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. This is the first tidal lagoon project to be examined by the Planning Inspectorate. But before the lagoon becomes a reality, it is still subject to Contract for Diff
The Anacostia watershed is one of the most urbanized watersheds within the Chesapeake Bay Basin and has suffered from years of environmental neglect. The USACE Baltimore District is preparing an environmental assessment for potential stream and wetland restoration projects in the Anacostia River
The Dredgers Association of Nigeria urged the Federal Government yesterday to provide incentives to indigenous dredging operators to enable them compete with foreign counterparts, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The Association’s Executive Secretary, Richard Ntang, said that the incen
The Ormoc Seaport improvement program continues through multi-million construction works, according to the Philippines News Agency. Gerry D. Liquido, engineering services division manager of Ormoc port management office (PMO), talked recently about the completed reclamation of a backup area and said
The Port of Québec recently presented the BEAUPORT 2020 development project, which will cost approx $500 million and take five years to complete. The project will involve extending the current wharf line and constructing a dolphin reserved for liquid bulk. Extending the wharf line by 610 meters will
The Institution of Civil Engineers’ (ICE) 8th Coastal Management Conference will take place on 7-9 September 2015, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This is the first time ICE is organizing the event outside of the UK. Occurring every four years, this international conference will attract engineers, sc
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) is continuing dredging operations of the 2,800-acre (11 km2) Lake Decatur in Illinois. During the multi-year project, aimed to restore the lake’s capacity by approximately 30 percent, the company will dredge nearly 11 million cubic yards of material from
The City of Cape Coral plans to begin dredging in the North Spreader Canal on Monday, June 29. This project will continue for several months and will be completed no later than mid-November. The City’s Public Works dredging crew will be working in the canal Monday thru Friday from 7:00am to 4:00pm,
At the request of the regional water board Groot Salland, an F-16 fighter aircraft of the Royal Netherlands Air Force inspected the levees of the river Vecht on 4 June. The F-16 was equipped with a RecceLite pod, using a photo camera to identify sand boils near levees as an indication of a potential
About 214 million cubic meters of water-saturated sand have been removed so far from the New Suez Canal project, according to the head of the Suez Canal Authority, Mohab Mamish. This figure represents almost 82.7 pct of the targeted 258 million cubic meters, Mamish said. The executive director of dr
The Board of the Pacific Chapter of WEDA (Western Dredging Association) has announced the final deadline for submitting abstracts for a technical presentation that will be held during Fall 2015 conference in San Rafael, California. Presentations on all aspects of dredging and disposal, navigation st
With the 2,500 m³ capacity, the Damen-built Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD), Barito Equator is the first of its kind constructed in Indonesia and also the largest Damen standard hopper dredger built to date. Last October, the launching and naming of Barito Equator took place at Indonesian shi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) yesterday released for public comment the “Chicago Area Waterways Dredged Material Management Plan and Integrated Environmental Assessment.” The plan contains recommendations for managing material dredged from the Calumet Harbor and River and the Calumet-Sag
