UK-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has updated its Learning Hub with the addition of marine renewable energy module. With sustainable energy under discussion at the World Future Energy Summit earlier this month, this programme is for engineers who want to know more extracting energy from
Over the last few years, ECTMarine has delivered several cutter heads to different contractors with different types cutter suction dredgers. Recently, one of the cutters supplied to a Dutch dredge contractor has been inspected after about 100.000 m3 of dredging sand, silt and clay, to see how it hel
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 14 – 20, 2019). Coast Guard Recovers Body of Volvox Asia Crew After two day of intensive search operation, the Indian Coast Guard earlier this week recovered the body of a crew member of the trailing suctio
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The UK Newcastle College has installed a virtual reality system for offshore wind training at its Energy Academy. Delivered by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with Scotland’s Energy Skills Partnership, Heriot Watt University and Animmersion VR, the Immersive Hybrid Reali
Dredge Yard has just introduced the first 2019 addition to their dredger family – ECO 150s series. According to the company, these dredgers (Auger ECO 150, Plain Suction ECO 150 and Water Injection ECO 150) are compact, easily transportable and especially cost-efficient, have low fuel-consumption an
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday debuted its “Engineering with Nature” atlas to the public at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. “The projects presented and considered in this atlas use an Engineering With Nature lens as a means of revealing the use of nature-based approaches
The board of directors of Swedish wave energy company Seabased has decided to liquidate one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Seabased Industries AB.This primarily affects Seabased production facility in Lysekil, Sweden. The board has directed Oivind Magnussen (CEO) to take the appropriate actions t
The ECN part of TNO, KNMI (the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), and Whiffle, a Delft University of Technology spin-off, are releasing the new Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas on Thursday, 17 January. The Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (DOWA) is said to include an unprecedented level of detail where
The stationary dredger SEEM 16-640ST Milady, with a steel hull and aluminium structure, has officially been launched at Merré Shipyard in France. Set to be delivered later this year, the Milady was built by Merré Shipyard for the Services Industriels de Genève based in Switzerland. The concept of th
Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND) has held a webinar on Tuesday, January 15, to provide information on its recently opened second Joint Call for collaborative research and development projects in the field of ocean energy. The second Joint Call was launched on January 8, and the webi
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Norwegian research institute Sintef have further solidified their cooperation in offshore wind with the start of a new joint research center. The new center, Nordic Offshore Wind R&I Center –
GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind, a joint venture of Pondera Development and Sif, have signed an agreement to install the first Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine prototype in the Port of Rotterdam this summer. The agreement, which will see the Haliade-X 12MW prototype installed onshore to facilitate ac
Leask Marine’s fabrication workshop has taken delivery of two of the largest tubular sections that they have ever received for the construction of the very first tidal platform ever to be built in Orkney. Leask Marine were awarded the contract for the manufacturing and supply contract of a Surface F
