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Erik van Eekelen

Erik graduated in 2007 with an MSc in
environmental fluid mechanics on near-field
behaviour of overflow plumes from Delft
University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Since then, he has worked for Van Oord
as an environmental engineer on topics,
such as Building with Nature, stakeholder
engagement, protection of marine fauna and
turbidity monitoring and management. Erik
was an MT member of EcoShape’s Building
with Nature 2 (BwN2) programme and since
January 2023 is director of the new BwN3
programme. Erik is also course lead for
the IADC/CEDA Dredging for Sustainable
Infrastructure course.

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Articles By Erik van Eekelen

Fehmarnbelt tunnel trench dredging project: a multifaceted sustainable approach
Authors: Erik van Eekelen | Arjan van der Weck

A fixed and direct transport connection between Scandinavia and Central Europe has been an enduring vision for many decades. This vision is now about to be realised with the construction of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link – an immersed tunnel that will cross the approximately 18-kilometre-wide Fehmarnbelt sea strait between Rødbyhavn in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany.

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