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Upcoming events: FRC meeting including workshop about flood-proofing buildings and infrastructure in Nijmegen (The Netherlands)       
25 February 2011

During the three-day FRC meeting, being held from 9 - 11 March, there will be a workshop about flood-proofing buildings and infrastructure. The session will include talks on existing flood-proof buildings given by:
  • Nicolas Bauduceau (CEPRI) who will present the guideline developed by the Conseil du Loiret
  • Prof Robert Jupner (University of Kaiserslautern) who will present the state of play in Rheinland-Pfalz
  • Prof Chris Zevenbergen (DURA Vermeer and UNESCO-IHE)
  • Robert Barker (Baca) from the LIFE project
Talks on flood-proofing infrastructure will be given by:
  • Louise Hurley (University of Sheffield) from the SKINT project
  • Ralf Klingebiel (Schüßler-Plan) on Zollhafen Mainz

The workshop will be moderated by Ms Cornelia Redeker.
The FRC event will start with a coordination meeting, on the first day, when the eight partner projects will join together to discuss the past, present and future. Markus Lang will introduce the cluster SIC ADAPT. You can read more about this cluster in this newsletter. The 3-day meeting will end with a field visit to the Room for the River project Nijmegen and a workshop led by project leader Pim Nijssen. We will tell you more about this meeting in the next newsletter.

Picture: Lent in the flood
Source: Erik Peek Fotografie
 
 
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In order to give more ‘room for the river’ and avoid future flooding, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen the dike at Lent along the river Waal will be replaced 350 meters land inwards, leaving an island in the middle of the river.
 
 
 
 
By providing more space for water around Dutch rivers, flood risks will be reduced. That’s what the program Room for the River is about.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
last update: Thursday, 26 April 2012