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Deltares has a wide range of courses on
offer. They can also be tailored to specific
needs and/or organised on location. The
following courses will be available in
2014:
Advanced course on Pressure
Management and Pressure Transients in
water distribution systems
Basic course on settlement calculations
with D-Settlement
Basic and advanced course on 'Sheet
piling design with D-Sheet Piling'
3
D Modelling of groups of piles using
D-Pile Group
Delft3D basic course
Designing and testing foundations using
D-Foundations
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD);
state-of-the-art developments
Hydrodynamics of Piping Systems -
Dynamic Behaviour
Hydrodynamics of Piping Systems -
Pumps and Appendages
Isotach settlement calculations
SWAN Advanced Course
WANDA
XBeach Basic and Advanced Course
For more information:
http://www.deltares.nl/nl/academy
/
cursusagenda
Questions?
academy@deltares.nl
DUTCH CHAIR OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION
ON LAND SUBSIDENCE
Gilles Erkens, a specialist in land subsidence at Deltares, has been appointed as
the first chairman of the European Technical Committee on Land Subsidence. The
committee was established during the last international geotechnical conference in
Paris. It will include representatives from a range of European universities. As well
as exchanges of knowledge, one of the main aims of the committee will be to get
the issue of land subsidence higher on the political agenda. Despite the fact that
land subsidence in many areas throughout the world is a more urgent problem
than sea-level rise, it is still receiving little attention.
AWARD FOR ‘DIKE PATROL’ THESIS
Casper Harteveld has received the Simulation and Gaming Award in Germany
for his thesis about the Deltares serious game, 'Dike Patrol'. ‘Dike Patrol’ is used
throughout the world to train dike inspectors.
Casper Harteveld studied the impact of this serious game.
The main conclusion of his thesis was that players of ‘Dike Patrol’ knew significantly
more about identifying dike failure after playing the game and were able to report
more effectively.
RISK-INFORMED MANAGEMENT OF
EUROPEAN RIVER BASINS
A recent publication, Risk-Informed Management of European River Basins,
introduces an approach that will allow water management authorities to
make considerable improvements in the quality of their river basins, while also
complying with many objectives in European regulations.
Risk-informed management is based on three core principles used in
combination. The first is: be properly informed about the river basin. Use all the
available knowledge to establish a picture of how the ecosystem works and the
interaction with the social system. Secondly: use adaptive management. River
systems are so complex that you cannot predict every development. So you
should monitor the system continuously and adapt the management approach
when necessary. Finally: get the maximum number of stakeholders from the
river basin involved in management. They know a
lot about the area and you should mobilise them as
much as possible. Getting stakeholders involved also
generates support for interventions.
Concrete cases demonstrate how the approach works
in practice.
Risk-Informed Management of European River Basins targets
scientists, consultants and river management authorities.
Authors: J. Brils et al. Published by: Springer. Price: hardcover
€249, printed eBook €24.99. Ordering via: orders-ny@springer.
com