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DELTARES, JANUARY 2014
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eltares is developing the Brownfield Navigator (BFN) for the European HOMBRE project. The
BFN is a software tool that helps policymakers to take decisions about the transformation of
brownfields and to devise action plans.
Brownfields are areas where industry has been located in the past and that have, for various
reasons, fallen derelict. A range of social, economic and environmental factors make redevelopment
difficult. Brownfields are found in old industrial areas, but also in urban environments and in former
military or mining areas.
The HOMBRE project focuses on the redevelopment of these sites. The Brownfield Navigator is a
support tool that can inform and inspire stakeholders. The BFN is used to structure that process, to
provide information and instruments for each phase, and to deliver examples of successful innovation.
The BFN will be tested in practice in the months to come. When HOMBRE comes to an end in late
2014,
the results will be freely available.
Brownfield
Navigator
SOBEK 3.2
launched
SOBEK 3.2 came out last
autumn. It comprises a number
of improved modules from
the present version of SOBEK,
namely D-Flow Open Water,
D-Rainfall Runoff Open Water,
D-Water Quality and D-Real
Time Control. In these modules,
the user interface, editing the
area and the control model
have got much faster and more
user-friendly.
SOBEK 3.2 is an important
milestone in the Next
Generation Hydro Software
project, in which Deltares has
been involved since 2011,
working on the integration
and improvement of its hydro
software. The new, advanced
software will allow water
managers and modellers to
do their work better, faster and
cheaper. The strength of the
new hydro software is to be
found in the new computational
core, which works extremely
quickly and has a flexible mesh,
the user-friendly user interface
and the open modelling
environment that supports
model coupling.
The implementation of the new
software will affect the work of
the modellers who use it. So it
will be introduced gradually. In
the near future, modules will be
available for morphology and
flood simulation.
Brownfields are former industrial sites that have fallen derelict for various reasons.