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Van Oord believes that marine engineering projects can be developed and designed to be sustainable. Doing so will ultimately lead to projects that are beneficial for nature in addition to their having an economic purpose or improving safety. Public support for projects will increase as a result, and the throughput time from concept to execution will be reduced.
Building with Nature is an ambitious innovation programme that is being carried out by the EcoShape Foundation. Execution is in the hands of a consortium of private firms, research organisations, and government. Van Oord is a key sponsor of the programme and has played a leading role in setting up EcoShape and managing and facilitating the programme.
A total of EUR 28 million will be made available until 2012 to investigate new ways to use the forces of nature and improve the scope for nature conservation in marine infrastructure projects.
In addition to disciplinary/interdisciplinary scientific research, the programme also encompasses practical research drawn from ‘real-life' cases, in other words current projects in which Building with Nature has joined forces with other parties. One good example is the study investigating the stabilisation of sandbars and channels on the Galgeplaat tidal flats in the Oosterschelde. See the project description for more information.
By 2012, Building with Nature should have generated a number of tools allowing large-scale marine infrastructure projects and nature conservation to be sustainably integrated.
