Kees d' Angremond

Kees d’Angremond (18 September 1939 – 15 August 2024) was a Dutch civil engineer and professor of coastal engineering at Delft University of Technology (1989–2001). He contributed to the design and execution of the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier, led the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Geotechnics at TU Delft, and was Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences from 1996 to 1998. Internationally, he worked on dredging and reclamation projects in Asia, advised the government of Singapore on the polder reclamation of Pulau Tekong, and supervised training programmes in Vietnam. He was also a mentor to Crown Prince Willem-Alexander during his studies in water management.

D’Angremond published widely on dredging and coastal engineering, including articles in Terra et Aqua on the 1953 North Sea flood and on the challenges of megaprojects. He was decorated as an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, chaired the National Dredging Museum in Sliedrecht, and in 2024 a navigation buoy at the Port of Singapore was named in his honour.

Early life and education D’Angremond was born in Amsterdam in 1939. He originally hoped to become a pilot but was not accepted for training and instead studied civil engineering at TU Delft, graduating as a hydraulic engineer in 1963.

Career Delft Hydraulics and Volker Stevin After graduation he joined the Waterloopkundig Laboratorium (now Deltares), working on projects including the construction of the Eastern Scheldt barrier. Through the Dutch organisation Nedeco he also participated in international assignments, including irrigation projects in India.

From 1975 to 1987 he was employed by dredging company Volker Stevin, where he directed projects in India, Burma and Singapore and helped establish the engineering consultancy Aveco. He became Director for Europe and the Far East in 1980 and worked on the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier through the Dosbouw construction consortium.

Public service In 1984 d’Angremond was appointed to the Dutch committee on soil subsidence caused by gas extraction in the north of the Netherlands. He also studied subsidence in the Groot-Mijdrecht polder.

He acted as a mentor to Crown Prince Willem-Alexander during his studies in water management at IHE Delft in the late 1990s, and the prince attended his farewell symposium in 2001.

Publications D’Angremond authored and co-authored numerous books and articles on coastal engineering and dredging. He prepared, with G. J. Schiereck, an annotated TU Delft edition of Het verjaagde water by A. den Doolaard, showing from archival and technical evidence that the novel closely tracks the real-life events and people involved in the 1944–46 Walcheren dike closures. The updated edition was issued by Delft Academic Press (2001) and later VSSD (2010).

Some of his selected works include:

Honours D’Angremond was appointed an officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. A navigation buoy at the entrance of Singapore harbour was named after him in 2024 in recognition of his contributions to coastal engineering.