Royal Haskoning satisfied with standard of entries

Royal Haskoning’s first Delta Competition in 2006 made a splash. The worldwide competition challenges students to come up with innovative solutions for delta areas that are vulnerable to climate change. Chairman of the Board Jan Bout says that the entries for the 2008 Delta Competition are again refreshing and inspiring.

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DeltaCompetition 2008 stimulates inspiration and discussion

The 2008 international Delta Competition yielded a total of sixteen innovative, creative and scientifically-based plans. Five of them got through to the final round The devisers were invited to present their papers in person to a select company in the magnificent St Laurenskerk in Rotterdam on 18 November. Among their audience were Cees Veerman, chairman of the Delta Committee, former minister of Housing, Regional Development and the Environment Sybilla Dekker, chairman Jan Bout and other members of Royal Haskoning’s board of management and Lord Hunt, chairman of the Delta Competition’s international panel of seven judges.

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Implementation
of Delta Committee recommendations urgent but not critical

Directional but not specific
On 3 September this year the Delta Committee’s integrated final recommendations were submitted to the Dutch government. They cover moral choices, a vision for the future and the sharing of responsibilities for the future water safety of the Netherlands. For the government these recommendations are an important building block of the National Water Plan which State Secretary Tineke Huizinga will present at the end of 2008. The plans were very well received and the members of the Delta Committee have now officially completed their task…
So what next?

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Integrated
approach essential

Research by Leo Adriaanse (Directorate General of Waterways and Public Works) and Tjeerd Blauw (Province of Zeeland) has revealed that delta areas are often structured from a single perspective—an economic perspective as in New Orleans, or a more protective point of view such as the Dutch delta. And this causes problems. Royal Haskoning has experience with an integrated approach to achieve a climate-resistant design. Parties are being brought together for the purpose and a contribution is also being made to concepts like overflow-resistant dikes that can play a major role in design and restructuring.

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New Orleans arms itself against the water

Temporary storm surge barrier and clever compartmentalization
In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina flooded around 80 percent of the city of New Orleans in a very short time.
The New Orleans District of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) was commissioned to provide protection for New Orleans against a hurricane with a recurrence period of one hundred years by 2011. An important part of the plan is the construction of a storm surge barrier on the east side of the city, but it will be three or four years before it becomes operational. Royal Haskoning carried out a study into the hydraulic effectiveness of two alternatives in order to reduce the effects of a hurricane in the interim period: raising the present levee and constructing a lower storm surge barrier
as a precursor to the final barrier.

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Meso-Financing in Egypt in the pipeline

The lack of sanitation causes a great deal of suffering. There are developing countries where living conditions on the outskirts of large cities and in the countryside around them are appalling. Hygiene is very poor and so, consequently, is the health of the people who live there. The governments in these countries often do not get round to taking any action, even though every dollar invested there can produce four times that. Royal Haskoning and Rabobank are starting Meso-Financing to tackle this problem.

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Water plazas: public spaces as storage for surplus rainwater

It rains more often and more heavily in the Netherlands.
The water has nowhere to go, particularly in densely populated urban areas. Sewers overflow and streets flood. Towns and cities are seeking ways to deal with flooding in a sustainable way.

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Building with Nature: sustainable solutions

Respect the natural process and connect
with it
Let nature work for you. That’s what’s at the heart
of ‘Building with Nature’,
a principle that Delft civil engineer Ronald Waterman launched twenty-five years ago. Climate change is reinforcing the awareness that more has to be done with it. Royal Haskoning is making a point of using the ‘Building with Nature’ concept and is working on sustainable solutions with plenty of opportunities for varied combinations of functions.

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A floating hospital…
can it be done?

A changing world requires
a new way of thinking and acting. Certainly when solving problems. The people in Royal Haskoning BM are very aware of this.
A real ‘living room’ has been fixed up in Hoofddorp to give their experts the space to contemplate creative solutions for various problems in relaxed surroundings. Problems
are tackled here in a multi-disciplinary context by brainstorming and blue-sky thinking. ‘And it works,’ says Bas van Eijndhoven,
a consultant who is also
a member of Royal Haskoning’s ‘Innovation Board’. ‘Daring to think about things in conceptually different, broad and creative ways pays off. It provides inspiration and creates building blocks for actual feasible ideas.’

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A better representation
of risks and opportunities in the Thames Estuary

Time to make decisions
If nothing is done, London and the surrounding areas will experience serious flooding within a few decades. The current high water defences like the Greenwich Barrier are no longer adequate. In the Thames Estuary TE2100 project the British are considering short and long term measures. The technical research has been done; all the stakeholders have been or will be informed about it. It is time
to make decisions. Royal Haskoning is advising the project management and the decision makers about the impact of (combinations of) alternatives.

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