Latest blogposts
Latest blogposts
Our members have trainees operating all over the world. These studying or recently graduated high potentials keep us informed on the findings and developments of their projects, by weekly writing and posting a blog. Here, you find the latest posts.
Nedeco news
Nedeco news
The international world of engineering is dynamic and alive. Interesting new technical developments and innovations are discovered and applied every day. Here, you find the most recent news items concerning our members.
Projects
Projects
Dutch expertise on the fields of land & water, transport, environment and infrastructure is much respected and requested internationally. That is why our members operate in countries all over the world. Here, recent interesting projects are presented.
The fishing industry is an important economic factor in Ghana. The goal of the project is to have a better distribution of fishing ports infrastructure over the country. This will enable more people to make a good living in the fishing business.
The project comprises the development of 12 new fishing ports including all required new facilities to develop the fishing industry and such that the...
Lake Victoria is a very important resource for the three riparian countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Nile Perch exports alone are valued at over US$300 –450 million per annum. The lake covers a vast area and the collection of data on the lake is therefore a time consuming exercise. The environmental challenges are very big: invasive species (water hyacinth), algae blooms and urbanisation al...
The project is a next step in the long-running efforts in the Fayoum to organize water users and support their role as active participants in the water management and development process. A forerunner was the Fayoum Water Management and Drainage Improvement Project (FWMDIP) that started in 1993. Though initially focused on technical irrigation and drainage improvements, it later made a start wi...
As part of previous support of the Netherlands to the agriculture sector in Egypt, the Fayoum Integrated Pest Management Project (FIPMP) was implemented in Fayoum Governorate from 2001 to 2007. A part of the information and knowledge generated by the FIPMP relates to the implementation of the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach. As a result of the successful implementation of this approach in F...
The project area is characterized by a beach consisting of medium sand and pebbles enclosed by headlands. The headlands are steep cliffs rising up to 30 m. A river mouth is debouching at the project site. The river has distinct wadi characteristics. During most of the year it is dry. However, heavy rainfall can lead to high discharges carrying large amounts of sediment. In addition, two more wa...
Shengsi is a scenically attractive, hilly island lying about 60 kilometres to the East of Shanghai. Part of Zhejiang Province, the island extends over 80 square kilometres and supports a population of about 100,000. Fishing is a major activity, but recently tourism has begun to flourish, benefiting the economy but aggravating the acute shortage of fresh water that has bedevilled the residents o...
Recent experience in Bangladesh has shown that participatory water management and operation/maintenance is both feasible and essential for the long-term sustainability of water management infrastructure and its associated social and economic benefits for rural communities. While the planning and implementation of participatory water management has been achieved successfully at the project level...
After preparations that have taken more than five years, Daewoo Engineering & Construction has taken an important step towards completing the fifteen kilometre-long road link between Busan (the most important port in South Korea) and the island of Geoje. The first 180 meter-long tunnel elements, which form an important part of the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link, have been successfully sunk into place.
In 2001 Witteveen+Bos organised a seminar that proposed polder systems as a possible solution for flood problems in waterfront cities in Indonesia. To prove that the polder concept can contribute to lower flood risks, it has been decided to develop a pilot polder in the city of Semarang. As time progresses the waterfront city of Semarang is flooded more often due to large land subsidence and ri...
The west coast of the Malaysian Peninsula is an area which has developed rapidly over the past decades. The centre of this development is the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and, along with the growth in population and wealth, the demand for fresh water has risen. To fulfil this demand the Malaysian authorities constructed infrastructure to extract water from the Selangor River. This river is pr...
New buildings will be built at the area of the police academy in Dubai. The location is in between the Burj Al Arab, the world famous seven star hotel, and the entrance to the Palm Jumeirah. A soil investigation is needed for the design of the foundations. In total, they need approximately 250 boreholes to depths of about 50 meters for a total of about 12.000 meters: a project of significant s...
After almost 4 years Witteveen+Bos Kazakhstan expects to complete the design works for the so-called D Complex in the Caspian Sea by the end of this year. However, the design team in which Kazakh and Dutch engineers work jointly together, will not run out of work as the design for a num-ber of new manmade islands has been awarded to WBK. The civil designs for the islands EPC03, EPC02, Kalamkas...
CDSP III is the third phase of a project that has been implemented since 1994 by the Government of Bangladesh, specifically the Ministry of Water Resources. It is headed by the Bangladesh Water Development Board, in collaboration with five other departments.
The overall objective of CDSP is poverty reduction through improving the economic situation and living conditions improvement in the coa...
The Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project will contribute to the sustainable management of water resources in Viet Nam. The Project's outcome is strengthened water related services, which will be achieved as a result of the following outputs;
i) strengthened capacity through professional and technical education of water sector professionals at the Water R...
Training Events
Recently three regional major training events have been carried out. The first regional symposium on Transport Planning Technique and Tools, Traffic Forecasting and Simulation was held in Tbilisi in Georgia from March 17-19, 2009. The second was organized in Istanbul from April 20-24, 2009 and focused on Economic and Financial Appraisal Techniques including Cost Benefit Analy...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is facing declining water availability and quality, low efficiencies in water use, salinity and waterlogging, inadequate O&M and cost recovery and lack of institutional coordination. In addition, soil erosion is a serious environmental problem in most of the country’s watersheds. The Alborz Integrated Land and Water Management Project (AILWMP) in Mazandaran Province...
Ferendi and WEWA have proposed the EVD an identification of business prospects in Afghanistan. These can be found on the areas of agriculture, water, energy and financial services, for example.
Vasilievsky Island is part of the historic city centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The tri-angular shaped island is surrounded by two branches of the Neva river and its western shoreline borders the Nevsky Bay. At short distance from this shore, Morskoy Facad, a Russian managing company, is developing a land reclamation bordering Vaisilievsky Island that is intended to accommodate further urba...
Om meer inzicht te krijgen in de feitelijkheden en wenselijkheden m.b.t. de sociale dialoog in het wegvervoer in Oekraïne zullen vier studenten in het kader van hun stage vier weken lang veldwerk verrichten in Oekraïne in juli 2009. Doel van de stage van de studenten van de VU Amsterdam is een onderzoek te doen ter plaatse naar de huidige stand van zaken m.b.t. de sociale dialoog in de transpor...
Since Romania became a member of the EU in 2007, the country’s development is taken to hand rapidly. There is solid economic growth, even in these dire times, and Romania received major commitments from the EU to strengthen its foundations; For the period 2007-2013 Romania will receive a total of 19 billion euro out of the EU Structural Funds, of which 8.5 billion is earmarked for investments i...
The Corantijn is one of the major rivers in Suriname with a catchment area of 69.000 km2. The river is relatively shallow and tidal water level fluctuations are present up to 240 km upstream from the river mouth. The physics of the flow and sediment transport in the Corantijn River is complex. It is an area where fresh and salt waters meet and where the in and out going tide is quite strong. In...
