Thomas Vijverberg

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Thomas Vijverberg is currently working as deputy manager at Hydronamic (Boskalis engineering department). He is responsible for the Environmental, Morphology and Metocean Data group. He started working for Boskalis in 2016. He has a background in Civil Engineering (specialisation coastal engineering / morphology (fine sediments)). After his graduation, he worked for Royal HaskoningDHV as a consultant from 2008 until 2016.

Articles By Thomas Vijverberg

Sand as a resource: Best practices to conduct responsible dredging projects

Authors: Jan Fordeyn | Thomas Vijverberg | Tom Janssens | Sjon Kranendonk

On 5 September 2023, IADC published a paper by the same name in response to a 2022 United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) report “Sand and sustainability: 10 strategic recommendations to avert a crisis”. In this report, UNEP calls for actions to set the global sand agenda in addressing environmental needs alongside justice, equity, technical, economic and political considerations. IADC’s paper highlights the dredging industry’s best practices for optimal use of scarce sand resources. This article is a condensed version of that paper.

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Soft mud: field performance related to lab experiments, modelling and analysis of time-dependent processes affecting consolidation

Authors: Dr Bernadette G. H. M. Wichman | Dirk Luger | Luca Sittoni | Thomas Vijverberg

Self-weight consolidation plays a major role in the creation of land using mud, the ripening of mud layers and, also, in the storage of contaminated mud and slurries in ponds.

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Can a lake’s ecology be restored with unwanted sediment?

Authors: Thomas Vijverberg | Roeland Lievens | Jeroen van der Klooster | Roel Posthoorn | André Rijsdorp

In collaboration with the Natuurmonumenten (the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Nature), Boskalis constructed the Marker Wadden. The archipelago situated within the Markermeer enables processes which revitalise the natural ecology.

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