Editors:
- Highlights state-of-the-art research findings on floating developments in both inland and coastal waters
- Presents key issues addressed when utilizing water spaces for human use and development
- Includes expert contributions from academia, industry, policymakers, entrepreneurs
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 158)
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Table of contents (31 papers)
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Front Matter
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Design
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Łukasz Piątek
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Floating Solutions LLP, Singapore, Singapore
Soon Heng Lim
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School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Chien Ming Wang
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Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
About the editors
Lim Soon Heng has a five-decade-long career in the marine industry, much of which with Keppel Corporation. He has considerable experience in the planning, and the design of shipyards including floating docks, piers, and wharves. He is excited by the opportunities that mega floating structures can offer to address so many of humanity's problems, including rising sea levels and climate change. This is facilitated by the skill sets that marine engineers and naval architects have acquired, particularly from the offshore rig building technology. Floating structures are economically attractive compared to land-based structures if their full life cycle is taken into consideration. He believes if Singapore cannot get it right in two important challenges, the future ahead is one slippery slope: It has to find viable strategies to resolve its energy resilience and its land scarcity. In that regard, floating structures offer robust solutions.
Chien Ming Wang is TMR Chair Professor in Structural Engineering, University of Queensland. He is Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and Fellow of the Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore). He is the leader of the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre research program on offshore engineering and technology. His research interests are in the areas of structural stability, vibration, optimization, plated structures and mega‐floats. He has published over 460 journal papers and 10 books on these topics. He has won many awards that include Nishino Medal, JN Reddy Medal, Singapore’s Minister of National Development's R&D Award for Floating Wetlands at Punggol Waterway, Lewis Kent Award, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award and Grand Prize of Next Generation Container Port Challenge.
Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther civil engineer, entrepreneur and researcher with a M.Sc. and Ph.D. (both finished cum laude) of Delft University of Technology. He is a director and founding partner of three water innovation companies: DeltaSync, Blue21 and Indymo. With these companies, iconic floating projects were constructed such as the Floating Pavilion Rotterdam and Floating Ecohomes, Harnaschpolder Delft, the Netherlands. More recently, the innozowa floating solar project was added to this list. De Graaf is also applied research professor of water innovation at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. His research topics include: floating urban development, resilience, adaptive urban development, innovative monitoring of climate adaptation measures and water quality. From 2010 to 2015, he was Editor of the Journal of Water and Climate Change of the International Water Association. He is (co)author of multiple international books, book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: WCFS2020
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Floating Solutions, Rotterdam
Editors: Łukasz Piątek, Soon Heng Lim, Chien Ming Wang, Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2256-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2255-7Published: 06 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2258-8Published: 07 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2256-4Published: 05 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 516
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 279 illustrations in colour
Topics: Offshore Engineering, Oceanography, Renewable and Green Energy, Structural Materials