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Reinforcement Ringdijk Amsterdam completed
Last week the reinforcement of the Ringdijk, Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam, was completed. The Ringdijk was symbolically given back to the residents. Delta Programme Commissioner Peter Glas together with the CEO of the Flood Protection Programme Eric Wagener, covered the last…
JLD Dike Stabilization System selected as a finalist for the JEC Innovation Award
The JEC Innovation Awards program is emblematic and recognizes pioneers in composite innovation based on criteria such as partner involvement in the value chain, technicality or commercial applications of innovations. The JEC Innovation Awards reward composites champions, based on criteria…
New dyke technology applied for the first time in Amsterdam dyke
To be prepared for more extreme high water in the future, the Ring Dyke in Amsterdam’s Watergraafsmeer district is in need of reinforcement. While the dyke is in fact high enough, it is not strong enough. The reinforcement will not…
An inspiration for entrepreneurs and governments
PIANOo and Startup Delta have compiled eight examples of innovative entrepreneurs in the publication: “Innovaties inkopen, het kan!” (translated: Purchasing innovations, it is possible!) One of these innovations is the JLD Dyke stabilizer. They mention the innovation as ‘a future-proof…
Drone footage dike breaches
JLD Contracting proudly presents unique drone footage of the breaching of the green- and blue test dikes on the ‘waterbouwdag’ (water construction day) in Rotterdam. Dike breaches have never before been captured in this unique way! In this video the unique footage…
Video tests JLD Dyke Stabiliser
When it comes to dike safety, a lack of macro-stability is a large and complex problem. In the “POV Macro-stability Programme’, JLD Contracting was able further to develop the JLD dike stabiliser – an innovative dike improvement technique. The purpose…
Unique footage dyke breach with JLD dyke stabiliser
Wednesday morning at 7:14, the ‘blue’ test dike on JDL Contracting’s test field in Purmerend was breached in accordance with the calculations. The completion of this phase of the testing signifies the culmination of nearly a year of field research. The…
Huge step forward in the development of dike-reinforcement technology
Test results with innovative JLD dike stabiliser extremely positive 8 July 2015 EDAM – This morning at 7:14, the test dike on JDL Contracting’s test field in Purmerend was breached in accordance with the calculations. This was the culmination of…
Video dyke breache 24-06-2015
Video of the dyke breache of the first experiment, the “green dike” was made to fail. The “green dike” was a test dike that had not been reinforced with JLD dike stabilisers.