Constructing a parking garage underneath historical city canals - a case study

Typical Dutch historical city centres are characterised by the presence of canals. Due to increasing demands on public space, these canals make promising locations for the construction of large underground spaces, such as parking garages. There are no significant buildings overhead and they are often situated close to their target users. My...

Fieldwork Coastal Engineering: Preliminary design of an artificial island in the Black Sea, Varna, Bulgaria

From Sunday September 30th until October 7th, a group of 16 Hydraulic engineering students and one teacher went to Bulgaria. Three Bulgarian students and two Bulgarian teachers from Sofia University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geology joined them at their arrival in Varna. The students were given an assignment concerning the...

Ingleses - Brazil: Urban problems due to coastal morphology

MSc Project Hydraulic Engineering - Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Section Hydraulic Engineering and Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar. - The town of Ingleses on Santa Catarina Island, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is threatened by nature at...

Haalbaarheidsstudie Stuwdam Sarokie, Afghanistan

Doelstelling van dit onderzoek is het via een haalbaarheidsstudie evalueren of, waar en hoe, het mogelijk is een stuwdam te realiseren in het Helmand-dal, en daarmee te voorzien in de vraag van de lokale bevolking naar elektrische energie. Al in een vroeg stadium van het onderzoek is geconstateerd dat deze doelstelling, binnen het kader van de...