Signing the updated agreement between CHEC Sri Lanka as EPC contractor of the Colombo port city development project for the marine design and reclamation works.
CDR will set-up a permanently manned office in Colombo for at least a period of 2 years. The project was officially launched on September 17th, 2014 by the Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa (http://www.news.lk/news/business/item/2987-colombo-port-city-project-will-be-launched-today).
Project group Hambantota consists of four students from Delft university of Technology, with specialisations ports and waterways, dredging engineering, coastal engineering and construction management and engineering. As part of their Master’s program they organized a research project in Sri Lanka where siltation is a major problem for small scale fisheries harbours.
With support of CDR the students will analyse the situation for one specific harbour in Hambantota, located in the south of Sri Lanka. They will evaluate different solutions and present a development plan to local stakeholders as a result of their study.
Presentation of the paper: “Icelandic-type berm breakwater for the Hambantota artificial island revetment, application of geometrical design rules” by CDR team members who have been working on the Hambantota port project for CHEC Sri Lanka.
Signing the agreement between CHEC Sri Lanka and CDR for the 1 year assignment design review of the marine design and reclamation works for the port city Colombo (view youtube).
The project is expected to take off September 2014.
