Xbloc to Take Part at ICE Conference (UK)

The Xbloc team will be present at the ICE conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, from September 18 – 20, 2013.

“You can meet us at the Xbloc booth in the exhibition area. On Thursday the 19th, Bart van Zwicht will give a presentation on the design and construction of the low crested Xbloc breakwater at Pointe Noire, Congo,” they announced.

The conference will address the following topics:

– Breakwaters, piers and jetties,

– Marine energy systems, offshore and nearshore devices and systems, service landfall,

– New coastal facilities and infrastructureincluding oil and gas terminals, power stations, desalination plants,

– Waterfront developments,

– Seawalls and shoreline structures,

– Ports, locks and harbours,

– Coastal erosion and flooding,

– Shoreline management, environmental andsocial awareness,

– Coastal, estuarine and oceanographic processes; data measurement, monitoring and modelling,

– Coastal threats, storms, tsunamis andclimate change,

– Dredging and use of dredged materials,

– Construction materials – embedded energy, sustainability.

The Xbloc team will be also present at the Coasts and Ports conference in Sydney, Australia, from 11 to 13 September

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Dredging Today Staff, August 30, 2013