Elisa Taelman (MEng) worked as an environmental advisor for the Flemish Environmental Agency in 2006. During the Saadiyat project, she worked as an environmental site engineer for Jan De Nul N.V., where she was in charge of monitoring the influence of the dredging activities on the environment and installation and maintenance of silt screens. She is now in charge of all environmentally related matters on the BHP project for Jan De Nul Group in Port Hedland, Australia, which also includes water quality monitoring.