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Join The President
In Denmark!
CEDA members have a unique
chance to visit the Storebælt and
Øresund links in Denmark 22–23
September and hear first hand about
the lessons learned from the design
and construction of these two huge
infrastructure projects
The visit’s sponsored by Sund & Bælt,
owner of the links, and led by environment
manager and CEDA president Anders Jensen.
And the tentative programme includes trips
to the exhibition centre, the Øresund bridge,
Kastrup Strand park and Sprogø island – plus
Where you’ll be staying, Beijing’s Grand Epoch City talks about the marine earthworks, scour
protection and, of course, the environment.
WODCON XIX – Call For Papers
There’ll also be an opportunity to learn about
the planned fixed link across the Femernbælt/
Fehmarn Belt that in the near future will connect
With the theme DREDGING MAKES THE elsewhere. Purely promotional text will not Denmark and Germany.
WORLD A BETTER PLACE, the triennial World be accepted. The respective technical paper More info at
Dredging Congress will be held over 8–12 committees reserve the right to accept or reject www.cedaconferences.org/storebaelt2009
September 2010 in Grand Epoch City, any submission – and authors must assign
Beijing, China copyright to the World Dredging Association
Apart from the traditional three-day technical (WODA). Please send your 300-word abstract
Please Can We
programme and exhibition, it will include a full- – along with your full name, mailing address,
day technical visit to Tianjin Port and Tianjin New telephone number and email address – by
Have More?
Coastal District, including the massive Tianjin Bin 30 September 2009 to one of the following:
Hai Coastal Reclamation Project, plus an optional 1). Papers from the CHIDA region: Yang Zunwei, That was the plea from Jürgen Thomas
two-day technical tour on 13–14 September to China Dredging Association, No 9 Dong Zhi Wai of URS Deutschland after he attended
the ports of Caofeidian and Qinhuang Dao. Chun Xiu Road, Beijing 100027, China – email: the CEDA/IADC ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF
Spouses are not forgotten, their programme world.chida@yahoo.com.cn DREDGING course in late January
including conference dinners and various trips 2). Papers from the EADA region: Led by two of the most experienced
around Beijing. And pre- and post-Congress tours John Dobson, PO Box 388 Hamilton Central, professionals in the industry, DPC editorial board
to various areas of China will also be on offer Queensland 4007, Australia – email: member and HR Wallingford director Nick Bray
– details in Q3 this year. dobsoncj@hotmail.com and Boskalis Hydronamic senior engineer Gerard
The Congress will bring together dredging 3). Papers from the CEDA region: CEDA van Raalte, the two-day course saw CEDA
contractors, port and harbour authorities, Secretariat, PO Box 488, 2600 AL Delft, The and IADC partnering with Delft University of
government agencies, environmentalists, Netherlands – email: ceda@dredging.org Technology’s postgraduate academic programme
consultants, civil and marine engineers, surveyors, 4). Papers from the WEDA region: Dr Ram for the third time.
shipyards and others working in dredging-related Mohan, Anchor Environmental, 12 Paenns Trail The material presented was based on the
fields. And the organiser, the China Dredging Suite 138, Newtown PA 18940, USA – email: recently published and fully revised book
Association (CHIDA), has put out a call for rmohan@anchorenv.com – or Dr Robert Randall, Environmental Aspects of Dredging, from the
papers covering the following suggested topics: Director, Dredging Studies, Texas A&M University, very popular CEDA/IADC series of seven guides
 Relationship between dredging and Civil Engineering Department, College Station TX with the same title.
sustainable development 77843, US – email: r-randall@tamu.edu Participants, who represented a broad range
 Dredging technology and research More info from CHIDA tel: +86 106 417 of disciplines and expertise, particularly enjoyed
 Beneficial uses of dredged material 4496, web: www.chida.org or from EADA working in groups on real-life case-studies. As
 Environmental aspects of dredging via Capt David Padman (tel: +60 331 688 a bonus, they also had a chance to visit some
 Survey and positioning technology 211, email: david@pka.gov.my) or John of the physical model facilities of host Deltares,
and equipment Dobson (tel: +61 732 623 834, email: including the water soil flume.
 Physical and numerical modelling dobsoncj@hotmail.com) And, as Jürgen Thomas noted, the
 Sediment dewatering, treatment & disposal increasingly complex issues that need to be
 Dredging equipment addressed by everyone in the industry means
 Dredging projects and case studies. that it would be worthwhile considering
WODCON XIX's official language is English. expanding the course by a day – and adding a
Papers must be original and should not have one-day field trip so that special problems can
been published or offered for publication be discussed in depth.
Getting Closer!
If you’ve not booked your room at Arizona’s MARRIOTT BUTTES followed by the Sunday evening Icebreaker. And apart from technical
RESORT for June 14 to 17, do it now! presentations, you’ll also find around 50 exhibitors, who’ll be keen
That’s the venue for WEDA’s 29th and Texas A&M’s 40th Dredging to tell you about the latest developments in dredging equipment
Congress and rooms at the special rate of $135 – there’s a bigger and techniques.
discount if you’re a government employee – are going fast. In DPC’s May issue, WEDA executive director Larry Patella will write a
Themed How Important Is Dredging?, the congress programme will full preview, but in the meantime you can find...
open with WEDA’s traditional George Watts Open Golf Tournament, More info at www.westerndredging.org
A P R I L 2 0 0 9 D R E D G I N G A N D P O RT C O N S T R U C T I O N 2 www.dpcmagazine.com
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