Workshop Dredging Techniques and Environment
In connection with the MTEC 2011 in Singapore from 13th to 15th April 2011, a one-day pre-conference workshop is to take place on Tuesday 12th April 2011. Environmental aspects of dredging and dredging techniques will be presented by Frans Uelman for IADC.
The course is based upon the IADC-CEDA publication, Environmental Aspects of Dredging, published in 2008. The book was created by integrating and updating the stand-alone guides published between 1996 and 2001. This new work is completely revised and the material in the book and the course reflects recent advances in environmental dredging techniques. The price of this publication is normally EUR 90.- (SGD 150), but will be included free of charge to those attending this pre-conference workshop to the MTEC 2011.
The workshop is aimed at consultants in dredging related industries and professionals from governmental bodies, whether municipalities, district water boards, ports and harbour authorities or central government and developers, consultants and other stakeholders.
Frans Uelman was the engineering manager at the Channel Deepening Project in Melbourne, Australia for five years. As such, he was involved in the environmental approval process and responsible for ensuring environmental compliance during the execution phase of the project. He was also the environmental and quarantine manager at the Gorgon Project in Western Australia until he returned to the Netherlands in 2010.
Mr. Uelman graduated with a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering and started his professional career as a research engineer and production estimator with Costain Blankevoort Dredging Company in 1978. During the early eighties, he worked on many dredgers as a trouble-shooter. At Boskalis, he has been involved in soil investigations and geotechnique during the nineties. As a senior project engineer for Hydronamic bv, Port & Waterway Engineers, a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster nv, he has coordinated tenders and project designs from 2000 to the present.
The Workshop will be held at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront room 1, level 2. The workshop fee of EUR 450.- includes the book Environmental Aspects of Dredging, coffee, tea and lunch. The workshop fee is excluding travel or accommodation costs. Payment is required prior to the workshop credit card or by bank transfer.
