Dutch Engineering Firm Wins Contract for Coastal Protection in Bangladesh

The next six years Royal HaskoningDHV will be responsible for the design, construction supervision and project management support of hundreds of kilometers of embankment to protect 17 coastal polders and its inhabitants from natural disasters and climate change. The total project area is roughly 1,000 sq kilometers.

The contract is part of the World Bank financed Coastal Embankment Improvement Project, Phase-1 (CEIP-1) of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. 
 
The contract was signed on Dec. 30, 2014 by Sarafat Hossain Khan of the Bangladesh Water Development Board and Roelof Moll of Royal HaskoningDHV. Present also were several officials from the Ministry of Water Resources, Bangladesh, the World Bank, the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology BUET and Dutch Ambassador to Bangladesh Gerben de Jong.
 
Royal HaskoningDHV will be working with a team of four sub-consultants: Danish Hydraulic Institute and from Bangladesh: DevConsultants, Design Planning & Management Consultants and the Institute of Water Modelling.

Source: Royal HaskoningDHV