IADC Seminar spotlights Emirates dredging

The Seminar will take place at Le Royal Meridien Hotel, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. from Saturday 22 to Wednesday 26 November.

Since 1993 IADC has, often in cooperation with local technical universities, provided a week long seminar especially developed for professionals in dredging related industries. These intensive courses have been successfully presented in Delft, Singapore, Dubai, Buenos Aires, Bahrain and Mexico.

The Seminars reflect IADC’s commitment to education, to encouraging young people to enter the field of dredging, and to improving knowledge about dredging throughout the world.

This five day course strives to provide an understanding through lectures by experts in the field and workshops. Some of the subjects covered are:

– the development of new ports and maintenance of existing ports;

– project phasing (identification, investigation, feasibility studies, design, construction, and maintenance);

– descriptions of types of dredging equipment and boundary conditions for their use;

– state-of-the-art dredging techniques as well as environmentally sound techniques;

– pre-dredging and soil investigations, designing and estimating from the contractors view;

– costing of projects and types of contracts such as charter, unit rates, lump sum and risk-sharing agreements.

An important feature of the seminars is a trip on a trailing suction hopper or a cutter suction dredger to visit a dredging project.

The cost of the seminar is EURO 2,950. This fee includes all tuition, seminar proceedings and workshops and a special participant’s dinner during the week, but is exclusive of travel costs and accommodation. If needed, the IADC can assist with finding accommodation.

For further information, please contact Mr. Frans-Herman Cammel, by email at cammel@iadc-dredging.com or call the IADC Secretariat on + 31 70 352 33 34.