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Terra et Aqua: From Volcanoes to Oil Spills, The Added Environmental Value of...

The environmental disasters this spring seem to know no end. Most recently, the United States is facing the largest oceanic catastrophe ever, as BP’s Deepwater Horizon continues to discharge thousands...

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Terra et Aqua: “How Does Dredging Make the World a Better Place?”

That was the question that the global dredging industry attempted to answer as they gathered at the WODCON XIX in Beijing, China with the theme “Dredging makes the world a better place”. This issue of...

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Terra at Aqua: Even in Tough Economic Times, R&D Investments Continue

  Dredging forms the basis for many important aspects of our civilised World and is indeed vital to social and economic development, particularly to the construction and maintenance of much of the...

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Terra et Aqua: New Form of Cooperation Between Clients and Contractors (The...

    In any given year myriad conferences take place worldwide on a diversity of subjects that impact dredging and maritime construction projects. Attending these dredging and maritime conferences, and...

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Terra et Aqua: In Dredging, Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness Are Everybody’s...

When it comes to dredging and maritime infrastructure projects, everyone in the major international dredging companies is examining and re-examining how they do business. And that includes scrutinising...

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Terra et Aqua: Forty Years of Progress in Dredging Industry (The Netherlands)

Forty years ago a group of professionals in the dredging industry launched Terra et Aqua. One hundred and twenty-five issues later, it is clear how far-sighted these people were. According to the first...

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Terra et Aqua: Dredging and Environment is Not Oxymoron (The Netherlands)

Care for the environment remains one of the most urgent issues of our times. And it cannot be said often enough: Environmental preservation and remediation is a top priority for the dredging industry...

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IADC: Terra et Aqua September 2012 (The Netherlands)

Since the start of the industrial revolution, people have treated the planet as though its natural resources were endlessly available. In the 1980s an abrupt shift occurred. An awareness of the...

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GLDD Acquires Terra Contracting (USA)

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition and remediation services,...

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Terra at Aqua: Erosion Behaviour of Draghead

A draghead known as “the pilferer”, based on the principle of erosion, was invented by DEME dredging company. Using the concept of van Rhee (2010) the erosion behaviour of this particular draghead was...

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Terra at Aqua: Dredging and Disposal at Lough Foyle

The Port of Londonderry is located at the point of discharge of the River Foyle into Lough Foyle, the lake on the western boundary of Northern Ireland, and is an important strategic business in the...

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Terra et Aqua: No EIA, No Permits, No Dredging

Close attention to the environmental impacts of dredging by stakeholders is completely understandable. And yet. The time, money and energy invested in research and monitoring by the dredging industry...

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Terra Et Aqua: Innovative Design, Techniques and Equipment at Maasvlakte 2

The Port of Rotterdam is currently undergoing a massive extension called Maasvlakte 2. Between 2008 and 2013, 240 million cubic metres of sand have been deposited from which 210 million m3 is dredged...

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Terra Et Aqua: Effectiveness of Silt Screens

One of the potential environmental issues associated with dredging in the marine environment is the increase of suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) by generation and dispersion of sediment plumes....

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IADC: New Issue of Terra et Aqua

The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has announced the latest edition of Terra et Aqua. People in the dredging industry specialise in thinking “out of the box”. So it should be no...

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Terra et Aqua: Haiphong Reclamation Project Presented (Vietnam)

International Association of Dredging Companies IADC, in its latest edition of Terra et Aqua, has posted an article about the subsoil improvement works at Dinh Vu Industrial Zone, Haiphong, Vietnam....

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Terra et Aqua: Dredging and Environment is Not Oxymoron (The Netherlands)

Care for the environment remains one of the most urgent issues of our times. And it cannot be said often enough: Environmental preservation and remediation is a top priority for the dredging industry...

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IADC: Terra et Aqua September 2012 (The Netherlands)

Since the start of the industrial revolution, people have treated the planet as though its natural resources were endlessly available. In the 1980s an abrupt shift occurred. An awareness of the...

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GLDD Acquires Terra Contracting (USA)

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition and remediation services,...

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Terra at Aqua: Erosion Behaviour of Draghead

A draghead known as “the pilferer”, based on the principle of erosion, was invented by DEME dredging company. Using the concept of van Rhee (2010) the erosion behaviour of this particular draghead was...

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