By Ing. Holger Schüttrumpf
The 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE 2008), scheduled for Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, will begin at the Hamburg Congress Centre with two short courses: one on the new European Overtopping Manual and another on morphodynamic processes and modelling.
The first incorporates new techniques to predict wave overtopping at seawalls, flood embankments, breakwaters and other shoreline structures facing waves. Supported by web-based programmes for the calculation of overtopping discharge and design details, the manual’s appendices give photographic and video visualisations of overtopping processes, graphical presentations, case studies, and example calculations. The second short course, “Morphodynamic processes and modelling”, is organised as a workshop with international experts on this topic. Presentations are related to numerical modelling of sediment transport, field measurements, small and large scale morphological processes and the effect of coastal structures.
More than 750 delegates are expected to attend this conference and to attend more than 450 presentations in five parallel sessions. New developments, methods and approaches as well as interesting case studies will be presented from coastal experts from more than 45 different countries. The conference covers all topics of coastal engineering:
In addition, a technical exhibition will give an overview on new products and ideas from more than 25 exhibitors. Construction companies, consultancies, publishers, administrations, measurement technology companies and other companies have already registered for the technical exhibition. Further details can be found on the conference website. Other conference highlights will be the ice-breaker party on Sunday evening, the opening ceremony Monday morning, five technical visits to sites such as Airbus Industries and the gala dinner Friday evening.
Hamburg is a commercial metropolis with a number of internationally known industries as well as one of the technical and scientific centres of Germany. The surrounding countryside is dominated by large fruit plantations, old farm houses, the Elbe estuary and the coastlines of the North and Baltic Sea.
More information, online registration and all conference abstracts are available on the conference website: http://icce2008.hamburg.baw.de. You can also e-mail Schüttrumpf at icce2008@hamburg.baw.de.
