E05 – Dredger Bible: Planning, Classification & Operations
This course aims to help you make dredging planning, classification and operations decisions you can defend in a tender room, on a survey day and at the jobsite, from anchoring arrangements and survey controls through crane production, classification and insurance to structured dredging cost estimates, applied in integrated worked exercises.
£299.00
20 hours
Focused, self-paced learning designed to fit around professional schedules.
Online, self-paced
Study online at a pace that fits your schedule.
9 sections
Structured curriculum sections.
English
Language of instruction for this course.
Quiz count: 3 total
Knowledge checks and assessed activities.
40 lessons
Focused lessons organised into a clear learning path.
Course overview
Designed for: engineering graduates looking for refresher courses in niche expert areas.
Entry requirements: an engineering degree or equivalent experience, plus a working familiarity with dredger types and dredging operations.
Learning format: self-paced online lessons with audio read-out, worked examples, worked planning exercises built on one running case, a tender build case study, flip-card recall exercises, in-lesson checks, an AI tutor that guides rather than gives answers, and graded quizzes. This suits the aim because you can work at your own pace and apply each method to a realistic case before moving on.
What you will learn
Explain how anchoring arrangements, mooring wires, and survey controls support accurate dredging operations.
Estimate hydraulic dredge crane production using cycle-time, fill-factor, and workability inputs.
Differentiate classification, statutory certification, and the main insurance covers used in dredging.
Assess how care systems and personnel frameworks affect dredger readiness, compliance, and cost.
Build a structured dredging cost estimate from quantities, plant costs, mobilisation, risk, and overheads.
Apply planning and estimating methods to worked dredging exercises and interpret the results.
Skills and knowledge
Anchoring systems
Hydrographic survey
Production estimating
Dredger classification
Marine insurance
Cost estimating
Project planning
Worked exercises
Course curriculum
Introduction
1.1 Welcome
Anchoring and Wires
2.1 Working Position Control
2.2 Swing-Wire Arrangements
2.3 Wire Rope Selection
2.4 Wire Loading and Discard
2.5 Quiz 1 (quiz)
Survey and Quantity Control
3.1 Survey Purpose and Timing
3.2 Datums and Tide Reduction
3.3 Positioning Systems
3.4 Echo Sounding Practice
3.5 From Soundings to Volumes
3.6 Quiz 2
Hydraulic Dredge Crane Production
4.1 Ground and Workability
4.2 Selecting the Plant
4.3 Cycle-Time Method
4.4 Backhoe Production Estimate
4.5 Other Dredger Production Logic
4.6 Quiz 3 (quiz)
Classification and Insurance
5.1 Class and Statutory Control
5.2 Survey Cycle and Certificates
5.3 Insurance Covers in Dredging
5.4 Deductibles and Risk Pricing
5.5 Quiz 4
Care Systems and Personnel
6.1 Care Systems in Practice
6.2 CAO and Crew Structure
6.3 Shift Patterns and Productivity
6.4 Quiz 5 (quiz)
Planning and Cost Estimating
7.1 From Work Plan to Budget
7.2 Cost Structure of a Tender
7.3 Weekly Plant Cost Build-Up
7.4 Mobilisation, Risk, and Mark-Up
7.5 Cash Flow and Financing
7.6 Tender Build Case Study
7.7 Quiz 6
Worked Planning Exercises
8.1 Reading the Sandy Case
8.2 Worked Production and Survey Problems
8.3 Worked Cost Estimating Problems
8.4 Final Planning Exercise
8.5 Quiz 7
Summary
9.1 Key Takeaways
Ready to enrol?
£299.00