Urban Quay Walls

Urban Quay Walls is a handbook that provides safety protocols and a clear approach to inspect, design, and maintain urban quay walls. It offers an insight into the development of urban quay walls, describes the main types in use in the Netherlands, and presents a proposal for a uniform and standardised method to verify the actual state of current quay walls.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Since the thirteenth century, the Netherlands has constructed quay walls of considerable retaining height in urban areas. Over time, structural modifications were frequently required due to excessive deformations or the use of increasingly larger and deeper vessels. These historic quay walls were rarely designed for the current functional requirements they are subjected to. These mostly older quay walls require more maintenance and revisions to secure a certain degree of safety. In some cases, they need to be demolished and completely rebuilt.

Urban Quay Walls offers safety protocols and a clear approach on how to inspect, design, and maintain urban quay walls. The book offers:

- an insight on the development of urban quay walls;
- a description of the main forms (as used in The Netherlands);
- quicksteps for the inspection of existing quay walls.

Urban Quay Walls presents a proposal for a uniform and standardised method to verify the actual state of current quay walls in urban environments. This handbook presents an overview of the development of urban quay walls over the course of time and describes the main types in use in the Netherlands. Subsequently, a method is presented for deciding whether or not a historic quay wall needs to be renovated, renewed, or maintained.

Weight: 434g
Dimension: 174 x 246 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367737337