CDR International is a fully independent Coastal, River and Port Engineering and Consultancy firm having its roots in the Netherlands. CDR stands for Coasts, Deltas and Rivers, the environment and field of their expertise in broadest sense. CDR is focusing on Project Development, Management, Design and Engineering Services in particular in the Marine and Maritime Sector worldwide. Their services cover the range of project idea development, (bankable) feasibility studies, detailed mathematical modelling and design studies to supervision during the construction phase.

Mission, Vision, and Values 

Mission: Creating quality sustainable solutions in the water related sector.

Their mission is to be a professional specialist player in the water related sector, with focus on the coastal, delta and riverine areas. Sustainability and Quality are key in their work.

They have an expanding team with an international network of specialist expertise and management skills. They see as their mission to provide the best quality services and deliverables to the satisfaction of customers in a pleasant, direct and open cooperation. Towards the client they focus on flexibility, good, quick and open communication and delivery on time. They adopt the highest working and operational ethics in all aspects and focus on added value in broadest sense to their customers projects, resulting in sustainable solutions.

As team players they keep extending their professional network, and also share their knowledge with young students of the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands) through active support.

Vision: A better environment to live safely and to move goods and people more efficiently.

Climate change and urban overpopulation, often combined, are part of today’s reality causing serious urban and rural floods and economic disasters in many parts of the worlds, creating unsafe living environments.

CDR International‘s vision is to create a better environment to live safely and to move goods and people efficiently for all. In partnership with their partners and clients they have the capacity to create quality affordable sustainable solutions for control and protection of coasts, deltas, rivers from floods in urban and rural areas. They also strive for economic prosperity for all by creating sustainable beaches, ports, and inland waterway routes for increased transport demand.

Values: Accountability, traceability, sustainability, quality, integrity, entrepreneurship.

Through their mission and vision they share their values:

• -Accountability: they feel responsible for their services and communication to their clients, government and public.
• -Traceability: their services and deliverables are well documented and traceable with a focus on transparent communication.
• -Sustainability: when they offer their services and solutions, they strive for maximum sustainability benefitting their children.
• -Quality: their services are performed by highly skilled professionals with up to date knowledge matching their client’s requirements.
• -Integrity: they are trustworthy and have strong moral principles, where respect for each other’s views and principles are highly valued.
• -Entrepreneurship: they focus on project with relevance to the society, developed in a sound and reliable institutional setting.

Core Business

CDR provides consultancy, engineering, and project management services for the following expertise fields :

• -Marine design engineering: breakwaters, groynes, revetments, beach nourishments
• -Coastal and riverine shoreline protection and reclamation works
• -Land reclamation schemes: hydraulic fill, soil engineering, hydraulic protection
• -Third party verification and (model)testing of hydraulic structures
• -Port design: port master planning, breakwaters, navigational aids and nautical mooring studies
• -Shipyard and ship repair yard design
• -High-end numerical modelling for waterways, ports and coastal areas
• -Conceptual urban planning and urban drainage schemes
• -Inland waterway transport studies
• -Water management master planning
• -Flood management and flood protection schemes
• -Hurricane and cyclone studies, early warning systems
• -Bathymetric and topographic surveys
• -Geotechnical engineering studies
• -GIS applied to Maritime, Coastal and River Disciplines

Together with their specialist partners they also provide for hydraulic and morphological numerical modelling studies, topographic, hydrographic and geotechnical surveys and investigation campaigns, physical model testing of marine structures and third party value engineering and design review.

In their work they emphasize on the combination of high-accuracy studies, practical solutions and they are involving experienced specialists that come up with state-of-the-art, reliable and cost-effective designs and solutions.