IADC hosts Dredging and Reclamation Seminar

Many ports are therefore preparing for improvements and expansion and many governments are investing in new infrastructure. Especially in densely populated coastal areas, with a lack of available land and the need for cleaning up past pollution and ensuring coastal protection, dredging is an indispensable tool.

For this reason, the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) is organising the 33rd International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation. The Seminar will be held in cooperation with the National University of Singapore and will take place at the Grand Park City Hall Hotel in that city from Monday 16 through Friday 20 November 2009.

Developed as a means of encouraging cost effective and environmentally sound projects, the course is aimed at (future) project managers, project staff and decision makers in governments, port and harbour authorities, offshore companies and other organisations that have to execute dredging projects.

Over the last fifteen years, this intensive course has been presented in Delft, Singapore, Dubai, Buenos Aires, Bahrain, Tampíco and Abu Dhabi. It has reached hundreds of professionals in maritime related fields thus laying the basis for many successful dredging projects around the globe.

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

– land reclamation, 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 contractor’s view;

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

Getting out of the classroom and into the field is an important feature of the seminar and so in each country a visit to a dredging project is planned, if possible combined with a trip on a working trailing suction hopper or cutter dredger.

The cost of the seminar will be € 2,950. This fee includes all tuition, seminar proceedings and workshops and a special participants’ dinner during the week but is exclusive of travel costs and accommodation. If needed, the IADC assists with finding accommodation in the conference hotel, or at another facility.

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