details
- Name
- HAECON N.V., Harbour and Engineering Consultants
- Country
- Belgium
- Changed into
- Soresma N.V.-Haecon
- Year
- 2005
organisation profile
Harbour and Engineering Consultants (HAECON) N.V. is a Belgian firm of consulting engineers established in 1971. The National Investment Company, a Belgian public-owned company, has a 50 per cent participation in its assets. HAECON's capabilities can be summarized as follows:
- It is fully experienced in the fields of port, maritime, coastal, river and fluvial engineering.
- It also has expertise in other civil engineering branches, such as: underground shafts, drilled tube tunnels and immersed tunnels, underground car parks, water and gas pipelines, river crossings, directional drillings, etc.
- Its consultancy services rely to large extent on its in-house computer software, sedimentological survey department, GIS-systems and laboratory.
An idea of the scale and magnitude of HAECON's professional services is exemplified by the port extension scheme of Belgium's national coastal seaport at Zeebrugge. The work, estimated at some 1.5 billion US dollars, is spread over an execution time of 12 years. HAECON's experience in offshore-pipeline projects centres around items concerned with seabottom geology, sedimentology, soil mechanisms, geophysics, slope stability, dredging technology, marine hydraulics (waves, wind and currents). It also offers specific marine survey activities in relation to back-filling, trenching and sea-bottom investigations. The company has considerable experience in incorporating assessment studies on environmental impact within its engineering appraisals on dredging/sedimentology projects, energy projects, hydraulic engineering projects, natural resources projects, GIS (Geographic Information System) cartography and dredging. It has contributed to novel approaches in beach rehabilitation and coastal protection projects in Belgium and abroad. HAECON's professional activities have already extended over several countries (Algeria, Argentina, France, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Libya, Morocco, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Tanzania, etc.) and various clients.
results in other services
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 450
- Collating centre
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Belgian Marine Data Centre (MUMM-BMDC)
- Latest update
- 30 September 2009 3:30:18 PM