The Islands, Barbados

The Islands, Barbados

Drieman, R.
Hinborch, M.
Monden, M.
Vendrik, E.A.J.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Hydraulic Engineering

2009-06-01

Master project report. In Barbados the problem arose of lack of space for development on the existing shoreline. Therefore the project "The Islands" has been conceptualized. In front of the west coast of Barbados, a group of artificial islands will be created. On the islands there will be space for luxurious villas and hotels. The location of the islands is in the west of Barbados in front of the coast of Brighton Beach and Brandons Beach north of the Barbados Port. For the project "The Islands" already some initial work has been performed on basis of which an architect made a design for "The Islands". The design consists of a group of islands and some beach extensions. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of the different coastal components of the masterplan and to identify potential impacts of the proposed plan on the coastal environment. For the different parts of the islands the stability in different wave and current conditions has been researched. The main tool for this research was the engineering software package MIKE 21, developed by DHI. With this program calculations have been made to determine the wave climate at the project location and to determine the stability of several components in the design. With wave-energy spectra from a database based on numerical hindcasting, the long term wave climate around Barbados has been determined. With this a more detailed model for the project location with and without the islands has been run to get detailed wave data. After this a stability analysis has been executed to determine the short term stability of the beaches and other components during a swell and a hurricane event. Also a long term beach stability analysis has been executed with LITDRIFT. With the results of the models some conclusions have been drawn and some design modifications have been suggested, such as a revetment, some groynes and maintenance dredging.

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