Workshops
The Smart Rivers 2025 Workshops are designed to offer additional educational opportunities on focused topics within the realm of inland navigation. Peruse the workshop opportunities below and add them to your registration for an additional fee (and additional knowledge gain).
Registration is required and additional fees apply for each workshop.
Sediment Beneficial Use in America
- MONDAY, 24 APRIL 2023, 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Course Objective
This short course will discuss the challenges and opportunities for sediment beneficial use in the waterborne transport sector. The short course will draw from two PIANC Environmental Commission (EnviCom) Working Groups: Working Group 176 on Working with Nature (WwN) and Working Group 214 on Sediment Beneficial Use. Both topics will be discussed as they relate to waterborne transport infrastructure and an international collection of case examples will be presented illustrating how projects can effectively create multiple benefits while using dredged sediment beneficially. Several projects that have used dredged sediment beneficially will be presented as examples of how WwN concepts can be applied in the Americas.
Victor Magar
Ramboll USA
Burton Suedel
US Army Corps of Engineers