The project management and coordination system is organized according to the following top-down principle (see DredgDikes organigram):

Project coordination

Project coordinator: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Cantré

Responsible for:

• Project administration
• General project management
• Accessible communication basis including following main tasks:

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1. Ensuring an implementation of the components acc. to the work plans
2. Communication with JTS and participation in its seminars + consultations,
3. Chair of SG meetings (every 6 month, rotate among the partners) incl. documentation, and
4. Contribution to administrative management, fund distribution to partners and financial monitoring in cooperation with the external expert in charge of administrative and financial management (tendering arrange by LB and PO).

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Associated organisations

The Associated Partners are divided into two groups.

1. This group will actively contribute to the project investments.
2. This group provides support and dissemination services within the network.

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Project management tools and project progress

The project management and coordination is organized using Project Management software in combination with an online SharePoint Server solution.
The project progress will be displayed on this website using Gantt diagrams from the PM tool.

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Outsorced financial management

The administrative and financial management is outsourced to Steinbeis Technology Management North-East. Technical reports will be generated six-monthly.

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First level control

Germany: FLC will be conducted by a local accounting firm twice a year.

Poland: Partner will be audited by voivodship office in Gdańsk.

• to get at least 150.000 people informed about the project outputs and results
• to allow easy communication between partners

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Internal and external communication and dissemination

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• Website www.dredgdikes.eu
• Electronic mailing list for easy day-to-day communication
• Distribution list on the basis of the electronic mailing lists (for newsletters, invitations, etc.)
• Multilingual newsletters and brochures (at least 450 newsletters)
• Poster presentations on project meetings and conferences
• Distribution of 500 best practice guidelines (final project document).

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Both guideline and newsletter will be published in 3 languages (English, German and Polish).

• Technical articles in expert journals addressing experts and educational and research institutions
• Press articles addressing the interested public
• Technical visits of the test and pilot actions to illustrate the technology and performance
• Meetings and a final conferences to assure a comprehensive dissemination of project findings at regular intervals.

• 2 large-scale field tests in Rostock and Gdańsk
• 395.000 EUR investment for construction and instrumentation
• Provides the basis for the implementation of the components 4 (Pilot Implementation) and 5 (Best Practice Guideline)

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Laboratory testing:

• To define the mechanical, hydraulic, chemical and ecological characteristics of the different materials used
• For pre-testing and accompanying the field tests to define material changes due to static and
  hydraulic loading, vegetation, desalination, and consolidation (after 3 and 12 months)

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Field testing:

• Realistically-dimensioned test dikes in Germany and Poland
• Settlements, consolidation, seepage, surface erosion and stability of drenched dikes, loading tests, vegetation assessment

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Rostock – Germany

• Dredged marine sediments from the spoil field Radelsee
• Planned length: 250 meters
• Operated by the Hanseatic City of Rostock (P4)
• Different cross-sections and material combinations (both with different dredged materials and geosynthetics)
• Designed by the Lead Beneficiary with assistance of the associated partner

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Gdańsk – Poland

• Dredged river sediments compounded with different fly ashes
• Planned length: 36 meters  at Vistula river
• Operated by the Pomeranian Head of Melioration (AP4) and located in the vicinity of Gdańsk
• Regularly flooded by the Vistula River
• In-situ field tests involve measurements of settlement and consolidation, seepage and other hydraulic loading

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Responsible partners:

• TU Gdańsk (P2): Official responsible partner
• University partners: Geotechnical testing
• Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH (P5): Chemical analytics
• P4 (Rostock) and AP4 (Gdańsk): Maintenance at least until 2018

The dike is particularly suited for the project because:

1. The present planning includes the use of marl, which has to be transported from faraway deposits and which is already becoming short. The use of local dredged materials is more efficient.
2. The estimated costs will be too expensive for the responsible parties. The use of dredged materials will reduce the costs considerably.
3. The fine grained organic sediments in the Saaler Bodden in the vicinity of the pilot dike need to be dredged urgently for environmental and touristic reasons, but the sheer amount of sediment makes the deposition on land extremely costly.
4. The site is easily accessible for technical visits. A section of at least 400 m of the planned dike will be built as a pilot investment to show the reliability of the dredged materials.

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Responsible partner:

• LB, P2 and P3:  Implementation planning
• P3: Commission and maintenance
• P5, LB and P2: Environmental effects
• AP1: Long-term monitoring programme after the project

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Pilot dike instrumentation

• Long-term data-logger
• Additional measurement devices, like observation wells

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Background

The development and implementation of a best practice guideline is the main concern of the German authorities AP1 / AP2 (State Agency for Agriculture and Environment StALU / Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute BAW) and the Polish authority AP3 (Maritime Office in Gdynia). German and Polish authorities rely on handbooks and guidelines, approved by federal authorities, like AP2, if it comes to the implementation of new materials and solutions. Thus to use the dredged materials on a larger scale and to trigger an extensive positive environmental impact, a knowledge-based best practice guideline is essential.

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Aim

The aim is to make the dike construction technology transferable to other projects so that it may be implemented all along the Baltic Sea Coast.

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Contents

The implementation of the guideline will comprise best practice methods for dike construction using dredged materials or soil-ash mixtures considering site-specific conditions. Different cross-sections of dike construction will base on investigated project results from laboratory and field testing as well as the pilot project. References to the existing guideline for assessment of dredged materials and coastal risk management strategies will be made in order to simplify the handling and practice of dredged materials. The guideline will include following chapters:

1. State of the art of dike construction at least in the two partner states.
2. Experimental work (laboratory and/or field testing) necessary for the implementation of the different dredged materials solutions.
3. Construction rules for the application of different systems of ash-improved dredged materials and combinations with geosynthetics will be developed, based on existing design rules and on the results from the field tests performed in Rostock and Gdańsk.
4. Environmental aspects and quality control will, based on the experience from both field tests and pilot projects.

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Multilingualism

For future implementation of the best practice guidelines in authorities and companies all over the South Baltic region, the guideline needs to be multilingual. Therefore it will be initially translated in at least 3 languages, German, Polish, and English. Russian and Swedish may be considered as well.

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Distribution

The guideline will be distributed both in Germany and Poland as well as beyond the project area within the South Baltic region (see also Component 2). You will find a PDF version on this website as free download.