Civil engineering and infrastructure repair in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina evaluation, design and construction management of levees and floodwalls, special closure structures for protection of the communities adjacent to the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, major pumping facilities and planning studies for improved levels of flood protection for New Orleans and southern Louisiana.<ref name="Arcadis/Bioengineering Group contract">Infrasite.net @ web.archive.org "</ref> The Delta Works are a series of constructions built between 1953 and 1997 in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta from the sea. The works consist of dams, sluices, locks, levees, and storm surge barriers. The works were initiated after the North
Land reclamations of China 2016, the projects in the Spratlies covered of land protected by "'significant' weapons systems, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems". Land reclamations of China China is rather active in land reclamation. Since 1949 a large amount of artificial land has been reclaimed, mainly on its coastlines. China is among the countries which have built the most artificial land; from 1949 to 1990s, the total area of land reclaimed from the sea of China was about 13,000 km. A grand total of 150 km was planned to be reclaimed from the sea in 2009. From June 2004 to the present, land reclamation