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Blue21 joins the 2nd Community of Practice on floating solar
We are thrilled to be back and witness the incredible progress of the Innozowa project, which Blue21 helped initiate back in 2017. Last Friday, we participated in a Community of Practice (CoP) meeting on floating solar and water quality at Waterschap Rivierenland.
Resilience, Disaster Mitigation, and Infrastructure (RMI) Week 2023
Our co-founder Rutger De Graaf-van Dinther has been invited to give a lecture on Floating Construction at the 1st International Short Course Program RMI Week 2023.
Meet our Innovator | Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther Blue21
We are excited to announce that our co-founder Rutger De Graaf-van Dinther kicked off the “Meet the Innovators” series by Buccaneer Delft.
Blue21 joins online discussion: Why the Industrialization of the Ocean Matters
We are excited to share that Fen-Yu (Vicky) Lin, project manager of the Blue21 team, will be joining an interdisciplinary discussion on the significance of Industrialization of the Ocean.
Blue21 cofounder, Rutger de Graaf, speaking at JMSE Webinar 2023
An interesting webinar is about to take place on Floating Solutions for Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Cities.
We have a new vacancy
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Blue21 team wishes you Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
2023 is around the corner, Blue21 would like to thank our clients, partners and friends for your support throughout 2022 and for being part of the Blue Revolution.
Blue21 cofounder, Rutger de Graaf, invited to speak in Hong Kong
Our co-founder Rutger De Graaf-van Dinther was invited to join the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for 10 days.
Two young engineers joining Blue21 team
Our team is expanding and last week we officially welcomed two young engineers to our team, Anna Louka and Lindert van Tongeren.
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Special CAS21 discount for newly published Climate Resilient Urban Areas book
In celebration of the Climate Action Summit 2021, publisher Palgrave Macmillan has a 20% discount on the book Climate Resilient Urban Areas, edited by our co-founder Rutger De Graaf-van Dinther with co-authors including Henk Ovink, Arnoud Molenaar, Floris...
Floating Pavilion featured in CAS summit promotional video
The Blue21 office, the Floating Pavilion Rotterdam has featured in the promotional videos for this years, CASsummit2021 with former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon mentioned. We are delighted to have been selected as a means of showcasing climate adaption...
Space@Sea publishes the Floating Island Development and Deployment Roadmap
The Space@Sea project has recently published a new report titled the Floating Island Development and Deployment Roadmap. This new report provides an overview of the project results and sketches a path towards multi-use floating islands. As stated by the Space@Sea...
Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Available now
Blue21 co-founder, Rutger de Graaf has edited the newly published book, Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities. This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change...
Blue21 features in Netherlands Water Partnership article
The Netherlands Water Partnership has recently shared an article to spread awareness of the achievements and goals of Blue21 and how they align with initiatives of the Netherlands Water Partnership. As highlighted by Blue21 cofounder, Rutger de Graaf, "Around the...
PtW-WCFS2020 Video Announcement
Paving the Waves: the 2nd world conference on floating solutions has announced that the first of the conference videos are now available online. We would like to thank everyone for their participation and support of the organization of PtW-WCFS2020. It has been...
Technical, comfort and safety requirements of Living@Sea
The Space@Sea report on “Technical, comfort and safety requirements of Living@Sea” is now also available! Living@Sea aims to address the conceptualization of marine floating islands that are intended for human habitation (i.e., living, working, recreation). Regulatory...
Blue21 researcher presents graduation report on floating breakwaters
Blue21 researcher and intern, Arnav Doss has completed his graduation thesis, "Impact of box-type floating breakwater on motion response of hydrodynamically coupled floating platforms downstream". His thesis analyses a few design variables to find an effective...
Living at Sea Business Case Report
“Living@Sea business case” report from the 3-year (2017-2020) EU Horizon2020-funded research project, Space@Sea, is now available. Conducted by DeltaSync & Blue21, the business case investigated into the financial feasibility for the use of floating modular...
Conceptualization and Design Exploration of Living@Sea Report
The report “Conceptualization and Design Exploration of Living@Sea” is now available! Within the 3-year (2017-2020) EU Horizon2020-funded research project, Space@Sea, Work Package 7 Living@Sea, explores how living space at sea can be accommodated on modular floating...