Overtopping wave impacts on storm walls and buildings situated on top of a dike (WALOWA)

Coastal and River Structures

Design guidance for wave impacts on structures situated on top of a dike are typically developed for relatively deep water conditions. However, in Countries like Belgium, The Netherlands, the Adriatic coast in Italy and Germany…

ROBAMCI: a system-oriented and risk-based method for managing water infrastructure

Rijkswaterstaat, water authorities and municipal authorities invest about 16 billion euros annually in the construction, management and maintenance of infrastructure such as roads, dikes, waterways, sewers, cables, pipelines and other engineering structures (Den Heijer, 2020). Approximately…

Climate change in relation to vector borne diseases – One Health PACT

Human health needs knowledge about water and the subsurface

Outbreaks of (new) infectious diseases in humans and animals are occurring more often and worldwide. That is linked to various factors, such as international trade and travelling, population growth and climate change. In the Netherlands,…

Sustainable decommissioning of offshore wind turbine foundations

Offshore wind energy

  The limited lifetime of offshore wind farms requires an efficient and safe decommissioning. The project Hydraulic Pile Extraction Scale Tests (HyPE-ST) studied the option of removal of offshore wind turbine foundations (monopiles) in a…

Caisson Placement at Chioggia Inlet, Venice

Coastal and River Structures

Physical modelling of the placement of the Venice Flood Barrier gate caissons at the Chioggia Inlet. The Venice Flood Barrier consists of 20 m wide steel gates that are resting on the sea floor in…

BlueCan: cutting carbon emissions by improving the water quality of lakes and ponds

BlueCan is a tool that allows water management authorities to assess carbon emissions from ponds and lakes. The tool shows how different measures can improve water quality and reduce carbon emissions. BlueCan is a joint…

Sustainable site selection for accommodating new refugees in Uganda

Freshwater Scarcity

In response to the protracted refugee crisis, the Ugandan government is implementing a progressive refugee policy considered as the most generous one in the world. This project came as a response towards the expected influx…

National potential of aquathermal energy

Analysis and review of the possibilities One of the options that has received limited attention in the heating transition to date is aquathermal energy. In this study, CE Delft and Deltares produced an estimate of…

Freshwater Availability in Mekong Delta (FAME)

River basin management

Aim Freshwater Availability in the Mekong Delta (FAME) is a collaborative, multiphase project focusing on scoping, piloting and providing upscaling advice to national partners in Vietnam on the implementation of shallow Aquifer Storage and Recovery…