Mr. Hans Veldman

Mr. Veldman has 22 years of experience in hydraulic and coastal engineering. He has participated as team member and as lead engineer in a great variety of projects abroad where he used physical and mathematical models.

His experience is mainly focussed on two fields: harbours & inland shipping and relates especially to studies of wave conditions for ports, such as determination of wave climate, wave penetration, harbour resonance, moored ship motions and forces in mooring lines and fenders and inland navigation.

Moreover, Mr. Veldman has carried out hydraulic studies, breakwater stability studies, and coastal morphology studies to assess the impact of harbours on the coastal development.

Mr. Veldman was to a large extent involved in harbour resonance studies and determination of wave forces to the Rotterdam storm surge barriers. He was also involved in many port development projects in countries like Israel , India , Italy , Mozambique , Turkey . Furthermore he was involved in coastal protection and siltation studies in Bahrain , Egypt , Germany , Italy , Spain , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates , and studies of breakwaters and coastal structures in Denmark , India , Iran , Israel , and Italy .

From 1996 to 1998 Mr. Veldman was posted in Dhaka as Co‑ordinating Resident Engineer for the BUET‑DUT University Linkage Project at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology where he was responsible for the co‑ordination and implementation of the project activities within the institutional framework of the University.

In 1998 Mr. Veldman joined ALKYON as Senior Project Engineer where amongst other studies he became largely involved in studies of the accessibility for inland vessels of the proposed Rotterdam port extension and a Joint Industry Project that resulted in an improved connection system for push-barges in sea state. Mr Veldman was project manager for the conceptual design of the 350 m long and 45 m wide navigation lock for Venice and for the design of the six 200 m long and up to 30 m lift inland navigation locks with water saving basins for the Canal Seine-Nord Europ. He participates in teams that investigate the locking capacity of and develop options to ad new locks to the lock systems to improve the nautical access to Amsterdam and Gendt in Belgium . Presently he is project manager for the nautical optimisation of the outer-harbours for the new navigation lock in the Meuse river near Ivoz-Ramet in Belgium . Since 2006 he, on a semi-permanent basis, also participates as nautical expert on inland-water transport in the government administration of Rijkswaterstaat.

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