Land Reclamation

QAA Sand & Stone has acquired extensive, worldwide experience in geotechnical and geophysical site investigations, surveys, studies, design, and supervision of dredging works. Our scope of expertise covers dredging for coastal and port developments including land reclamation and beaches. Maintenance of port approach and navigation channels, turning basins, and berths. Civil works such as immersed tube tunnels, pipelines, and outfalls. Minerals extraction.

Beach nourishment for the purposes of coastal defense. The dredging works, which QAA Sand & Stone, handles, bear the comprehensive experience of the wide variety of dredging methods and types of dredging equipment. Frequently, the reclamation for beach nourishment works are accompanied by structures such as overtures, to stabilize them once in place. Again, QAA Sand & Stone expertise in these areas is unparalleled. QAA Sand & Stone also has experience of the survey equipment and software, including remote sensing, and for the determination of quantities for payment. We utilized specialized and sophisticated software, both developed in-house and commercially available software, to model the potential impacts of the dredging and reclamation works on the wider marine environment, based on a simulation of the hydrodynamic and sediment regimes in and around dredging and reclamation works.