Royal HaskoningDHV Win Coastal Project

Company has signed a €10.5 million contract with the Bangladesh Water Development Board for engineering consultancy services to protect Bangladesh's vulnerable coastal zone, home to millions of people

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

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.

Taking into account climate change

Mr Sarafat Hossain Khan, CEIP-1 Project Director of the Bangladesh Water Development Board said, "The vulnerability of the coastal population is on the rise due to climate change. Climate variability will accentuate the intrinsic risks facing coastal Bangladesh. These risks span cyclones and storm surges, river bank erosion and vulnerability of islands and chars, sea level rise, saline water intrusion, and coastal river erosion. A recent study indicated that if a 10 year return period cyclone hit our coastal area today, about 8 million people will be affected by inundation depths greater than 3 metres."

Source:Royal HaskoningDHV website

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