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A Limited Edition Book

To celebrate a half century of mari- time infrastructure construction, the

IADC members dug deep into their archives to gather photographs of 50 major projects realised over the last 50 years. These photos and descrip- tions illustrate vividly that dredging is far more than excavating sand and placing it in the sea. The book 2005 - 2015 de? nes where the dredging industry started and how far it has evolved

Panama / Panama into a supplier of essential maritime

Canal infrastructure for land development,

One hundred years after the oil and gas offshore industry, wind energy, ports and harbours and its opening in 1914, coastal protection in these times of extensive operations climate change.

are taking place at

BOOK INFORMATION

Format: 25 x 25 cm, softcover the Panama Canal.

Language: English

Whilst improvements (Excluding shipping costs)

Price: € 24.95 www.iadc-dredging.com have always been ongoing, recent works encompass the construction of two major lock complexes at the Atlantic and

Paci? c entrances, widening of a 14.2- km stretch of canal to 225 m and deepening to – 16.3 m, and deepening of the Paci? c entrance and southern approach channel.

Some 40 million m³ of soil and rock have been excavated and 5 million m³ of concrete are being poured. The notoriously hard subsoil was drilled and blasted.

In total 25 million m³ of

Atlantic muck and Gatun rock were dredged.

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