Marine Construction News – Page 210
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NewsA solid foundation for deepwater wind
Energy companies, civil engineers, shipbuilders and regional development agencies met in London last month to discuss the feasibility of building clean energy wind farms in deep waters offshore of the UK.
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NewsGreat Yarmouth's 'wave wall' completed
The final precast units supplied by Macrete, the specialist Northern Ireland based precast concrete engineers, have been lowered into place recently for the 1,000m wave wall being constructed by BAM Nuttall Ltd (which was known as Edmund Nuttall until October of this year) for the new deep water harbour being ...
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NewsSurf's up at Boscombe's artificial reef
Europe’ s first artificial surf reef is being built in Boscombe, Bournemouth and is set to put Bournemouth firmly on the UK surf map. It will act as a ramp, pushing waves upwards, doubling their size and improving their quality for surfers. As a result, the number of good surfing ...
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NewsSoil reinforcement keeps U-Boat afloat
The new site for a WWII German U-boat, U-534, planned as a new tourist attraction on Merseyside in the UK, was reinforced by the swift installation of Tensar’ s TriAx geogrid to prevent the exhibit from sinking into the Mersey mud. Adopting this solution also saved the considerable cost and ...
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NewsPerseverance pays off at Sheringham Shoal
Royal Haskoning has been appointed to provide environmental consultancy and support to Scira Offshore Energy in its construction of the ‘ Sheringham Shoal’ wind farm off the coast of Norfolk. A major infrastructure project, once complete the wind farm will cover an area of 35 km2 and is expected to ...
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NewsMarine works expand Albert Quay facilities
Total E& P UK has expanded its logistics support facility at Aberdeen Harbour in a move significantly improving efficiency, flexibility and safety of operations.
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NewsWorld's largest PBB for Harwich International
Barcelona based TEAM has been awarded a contract by Harwich International Port to design, manufacture and deliver a moveable and modern Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) of the SEDNA range. This PBB will be delivered by March 2009 at the cruise terminal building in the Port of Harwich, United Kingdom.
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NewsPort Said masterplan ready for investors
Dutch consultancy and engineering group DHV has completed its masterplan for a new port and industrial complex to be developed to the east of Port Said in Egypt.
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New harbour for Aran Islands completed
A new harbour costing € 14m has been completed on one of the Aran Islands, which lie in the mouth of Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland.
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Building stable beaches - a new tool to help
HR Wallingford in the UK has developed a new software package, in ArcGIS, to help coastal engineers model artificial beaches. The Beach Design and Management Tool (BDMaT) allows engineers to apply the necessary parabolic equations computationally, saving much laborious number crunching and giving a visual display of the results. BDMaT ...
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Mexican contract awarded to Jan de Nul
Mexicana De Dragados SA de CV, the Mexican branch of Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group, has signed a contract with the port authorities of the Mexican Pacific ports of Ensenada, Mazatlan and Manzanillo for dredging work at the ports. Signed on 24 October, the contract has a total value ...
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NewsDEME wins orders worth ¢220m
Subsidiaries of Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, have secured contracts valued at more than € 220m in recent weeks.
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Defland Coast project gets under way
Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the Defland Coast project has got underway. The Delfland Coast Consortium (Van Oord and Boskalis) began laying a pipeline on the beach at Hoek van Holland which was due to start pumping sand in late November/early December in order to create new dunes ...
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NewsVan Oord ensures easier and safer access to North Sea Canal
Dutch dredging and marine construction giant Van Oord has completed a project to deepen the navigable channel of the North Sea Canal in The Netherlands. Now, large ocean going vessels can once again pass each other on their way to and from the port of Amsterdam. A total of 4m ...
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NewsRefurbished Dockside Crane Honours Maritime Heritage
The protective coatings specialist Pyeroy Group has won a new contract to refurbish a 50 year old dock side crane as part of the £ 100 million Rochester Riverside regeneration project along the River Thames in Kent UK.
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News'Balmoral' Grows in Rapid Refit
November was a busy month for the former Norwegian Cruise Lines vessel ' Norwegian Crown' which sailed from New York to Hamburg to come off charter and be redelivered to owner Fred Olsen Cruise Lines.
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NewsDamen push ahead with a massive tug and barge project
Damen Marine Services (DMS) in the Netherlands have broken new ground with the delivery of the first of a series of unique pusher tugs. DMS Blackbird is purpose designed to form part of an Articulated Tug and Barge (ATB) unit and, when necessary, fulfil a range of other functions.
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NewsResearch facility will add to Xbloc effectiveness
Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in The Netherlands has opened a 2-D wave flume facility equipped with a wave generator to assist with ongoing research work on the Xbloc, its popular armoured coastal defence unit. The flume facility is 25m long, 0.6m wide and 1m high and is capable of generating ...
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Van Oord wins work flood defence project
On 3 October, the Dutch State Secretary for Transport and Water Management and the Queens Commissioner for the Province of Limburg presided over the official launch of the Border Meuse project, which is due to be one of the biggest flood defence projects in the Netherlands.
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NewsCleveleys Coastal Protection Scheme wins BCI award
A £ 20m coastal protection and environmental enhancement scheme at Cleveleys seafront in the UK has won an award in the British Construction Industry (BCI) Awards. After being shortlisted in five different categories, the project picked up the Environmental Award for the way it ' transformed a dilapidated 1920s seafront ...
