Proyecto Concepcion

Dear follower!

It has been a while since you have heard from us. Now we are all back from our travels and finished the exams of period 3, it is time to finish our Multi Disicplinary Project in the Netherlands. We will be presenting the results of our project to you on Wednesday the 2nd of May. The location is the building of Civil Engineering in room 2.98(2nd floor). The presentation will start at 12:30 and will end around 13:30.

We hope we will see you there!

Dear followers, a week ago we had a meeting with two journalists of the University of Concepción. The article is published yesterday at their website! You can have a look here http://www.ing.udec.cl/noticias/proyecto-interdisciplinario-reunio-a-estudiantes-de-delft-con-alumnos-de-ingenieria-civil--2/ (it is in Spanish..)

Proyecto Interdisciplinario reunió a estudiantes de Delft con alumnos de Ingeniería Civil El trabajo en equipo, el compañerismo y ser parte del desarrollo de un proyecto con valor social, son las características mencionadas po

Friday afternoon we had our weekly meeting with the Chilean professors and students! Great to learn from each other's experiences!

Site visit at Quidico Bay! We explored the bay and its surrounding, performed some geo-technical (seismic) analyses and spoke to some local fishermen. The coming weeks we will work on the design of a harbour that will be built at this beautiful location!

After introducing all the group members, it is now almost time to take the plane to Chili. Coming Sunday, the big journey will begin! We will arrive in Chile on Monday morning and then the project will start…

New collaboration:
We are glad to announce that BAM International has agreed to be the leading partner for our project. In this collaboration we have agreed to promote the company in the best possible way in the Netherlands and in Chile. Since we will be working together with the Department of Ports in Chile, this is the perfect opportunity to inform them about the work BAM International is capable of. The market in South America is a tough one for European companies to get a foothold in, thus improving the brand recognition in Chili can help BAM to inquire future projects in that area.
Last week we had a meeting at their head office in The Hague. We are very pleased that they made some time for a nice meeting to discuss about our project. BAM has a lot of experience in fishing ports around the world. Hopefully we can help each other to make our project to a success!

Meeting with Witteveen+Bos:
A few weeks ago, we visited the office of Witteveen+Bos in Rotterdam. We had a meeting with a Coastal Engineering specialist and an Earthquake specialist. During the meeting we discussed all kinds of potential problems we are going to face with during our project. Their experience helped us a lot about how to start with a project like this. Some useful tools and suggestions were given to work efficiently in Chile. If we encounter some other problems we can, hopefully, contact them again! We would like to thank Witteveen+Bos for their collaboration with us.

For those who did not know it yet: every 2/3 weeks we are sending updates by email with some nice pictures. If you would like to receive those updates, please send an email to: [email protected]

La próxima actualización es de Chile!