Harbour development and transformation is one of the considerable challenges to urban planning of our time. NIRAS has long experience of drawing up plans for harbour areas.
The basis of planning the future of a harbour is often created in a comprehensive process that includes interviews and round table discussions with various stakeholders of the harbour. The process can also involve public participation in the form of workshops, events, temporary activities on the harbour, idea competitions, etc.
Based on stakeholder inputs, outlines of future expansion and transformations of the harbour are sketched. Often a strategy for the further process is described as well.
In connection with harbour plans there is often a need for special emphasis on clarifying the environmental consequences of the future changes. Often, traffic conditions are a challenge as well. NIRAS possesses competences in all areas of planning, process, technology, environment and traffic.