WCFS2019

WORLD CONFERENCE ON FLOATING SOLUTIONS 2019

“Floating space for sustainable living, playing and working”

 
22 -23 April 2019, Singapore
organised by
Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore)

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World Conference on Floating Solutions 2019!

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Key Dates

Deadline for submission of full paper:  15 December 2018
Notification of acceptance of full paper: 15 January 2019
Conference date: 22-23 April 2019

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Registration

The registration fee is inclusive of a copy of Conference Proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches and admission to all the lectures.

For SFSS members: 300 SGD before 1 February 2019 to enjoy early bird registration
350 SGD after 1 February 2019
For non-SFSS members: 400 SGD before 1 February 2019 to enjoy early bird registration
450 SGD after 1 February 2019
For full-time students: 200 SGD

Interested participants should register & complete payment online not later than 15 April 2019

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Invited Speakers

Abstract Submissions

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines in Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan

Prof Tomoaki Utsunomiya (Kyushu University, Japan)

 

Fish Farming in Floating Structures

Mr Tor Ole Olsen (Dr.techn.OlavOlsen AS, Norway)

 

Floating Forest: A Novel Concept of Floating Breakwater-Windbreak Structure

Prof Chien Ming Wang (The University of Queensland)

 

Seascape the Landscape in Singapore: Repurposing Land in a Land Scarce Nation

Mr Lim Soon Heng (President of SFSS)

 

Driving Innovations in Support of Greenery, Biodiversity and Clean Energy Initiatives in Singapore

Er Dr Johnny Liang Heng Wong (Building & Research Institute, HDB, Singapore), Sze Tiong Tan, Chien Looi Wang, Han Vincent Lim, Kok Keng Ang, Jian Dai

 

Floating Bridges and Submerged Tunnels in Norway – the History and Future Outlook

Prof Torgeir Moan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

 

Durability of Floating Concrete Platforms

Dr Sabet Divsholi Bahador (eCreators-global)

 

An Integrated Floating Community Based upon a Hybrid Water System: Toward a Super-Sustainable Water City

Dr Toshio Nakajima (President, Waterfront Real Estate Co. Ltd.) and Prof Motohiko Umeyama (Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

 

Design and Potential Applications of Floating Structures in Singapore

A/Prof Kok Keng Ang (National University of Singapore), Dai Jian, Oyvind Hellan, Arnstein Watn and James Lee

 

Floating Concrete Pier in Golden Harbour, Incheon

Dr Kwanghoe Jung (Hyundai Engineering and Construction), S.H. Lee, H.S. Kim, Y.H. Choi and S. Kang

 

Wave Induced Motions of Floating Mega Island

Mr William Otto (MARIN)

 

Hydrodynamic responses and loads of a model floating hydrocarbon storage tank system for concept validation and numerical verification

Mr Zhang Chi (National University of Singapore), Allan R. Magee, Nuno Fonseca, Nianxin Ren, Miguel Rodrigues, Øyvind Hellan, and Kok Keng Ang

 

Floating clean multi-energy systems towards driving blue economic growth

Dr Narasimalu Srikanth (Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University)

 

Classification Principles for Very Large Floating Structures

Mr Chun Wee Ng and Rongrong Jiang (DNVGL)

 

Mooring Systems for Very Large Floating Structures

Mr Aditya Sankalp and Yves De Leeneer (DEEPBLUE Pte Ltd)

 

Floating shipyard design concept and application

Mr Cliff Ohl and Adrian Arnold (Royal HaskoningDHV)

 

Repurposing jack-ups, semi-submersibles and super-barges into offshore and nearshore settlements

A/Prof Joseph Lim Ee Man (National University of Singapore)

 

Dynamics of Super-Scale Modularized Floating Airport

Mr Haicheng Zhang, Daolin Xu, Shuyan Xia, Qijia Shi, and Rui Ding (Hunan University, China)

 

Design guidelines for upgrading living conditions in wetslums

Mr Koen Olthuis (Waterstudio.NL)

 

DemoSATH Project – Demonstrating the Technical Feasibility of a Disruptive Concrete Floating Offshore Wind Solution

Mr David Carrascosa Francis (Saitec Offshore Technologies, S.L)

 

Floating Infrastructure: Large Scale Public Spaces on Water

Gerard Ronzatti and Petar Lovric (Seine Design)

 

The Dawn of Floating Solar – Technology, Benefits, and Challenges

Thomas Reindl (SERIS)

 

Floating solutions: The new meaning of mobility

Milica Simovic, Sonja Krasic and Marko Nikolic (University of Nis, Serbia)

 

Seasteading = More Floating Singapores

Joe Quirk (President of The Seasteading Institute and Co-founder of Blue Frontiers)

 

Technology-driven Sustainable Aquaculture for Eco-tourism

Hoon Kiang Tan and Ban Tat Leow (Nature Resources Aquaculture Pte Ltd, Singapore)

 

Potential of Floating Urban Development for Coastal Cities

Karina Czapiewska (Co-founder of Blue 21, DeltaSync and INDYMO)

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