North South metro line, supporting the risk-based approach

Underground construction in urban areas

Deltares has been involved with the North-South metro line in Amsterdam for many years as a strategic consultant providing second opinions about plans and designs. Since the major setbacks during the construction of the Vijzelgracht…

BEIRA

Deltares was assigned together with Dutch Consultant Witteveen en Bos to develop the 2035 Master Plan (click here for a short movie) for the harbour of Beira in Mozambique. The Master Plan involves working together…

Climate-resilient Hong Kong

Delft3D 4 Suite (structured)

Deltares helped Hong Kong in 2008 to establish a master plan for the northern section of the New Territories. Hong Kong wanted to make this low-lying area suitable for the further expansion of the urban…

Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network (CIPRNet)

Flood Risk Strategies

The CIPRNet consortium will make a decisive effort towards providing support from the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) research communities to emergency responders, governmental agencies and policy makers, enhancing their preparedness against service disruptions of Europe’s…

FloodProbe: Technologies for the cost-effective flood protection of the built environment

Dikes, levees and dams

Storms and floods as natural hazards are recognized as a major source of direct and indirect flood damages in Europe and world-wide. They pose the largest threat to people and the built environment. Expectations are…

Maasvlakte 2 – Coastal defence

Coastal and River Structures

The Port of Rotterdam needed to extend the current reclaimed area, the Maasvlakte, in the seaward direction to allow the port to expand. The new area is known as ‘Maasvlakte 2’ and it provides 1,000…

Sal Rei Harbour Breakwater Testing

Coastal and River Structures

Armour Stability One of the most important components of a breakwater is the armour layer. This layer protects the breakwater from the waves and ensures that the structure itself can withstand the design storm. Often,…

SOLUTIONS for emerging pollutants

From land parcel to sea

The range of chemicals in our aquatic ecosystems is increasing How to deal with the ever-increasing range of chemicals found in our aquatic ecosystems? We do not know enough about them to decide if and…

ANT – Nature Objectives for IJsselmeer area under pressure

From land parcel to sea

Nature Objectives for IJsselmeer area under pressure The ‘Autonomous Downward Trends in the IJsselmeer area’ study (ANT) focused on the feasibility of the prevailing Natura 2000 objectives for ten species of water fowl in the…

TEEB case Flood risk management: what is the value of natural solutions?

Ecosystem services

Scientific programmes like TEEB (the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) have developed large amounts of knowledge about the value of ecosystems and the ecosystem services they deliver to people. This knowledge can help us to…