WE GET YOUR PROJECT AFLOAT

With years of experience and strategic partners worldwide, we guide you from concept to realization, making your floating project successful.

BLUE21

EXPERTS ON FLOATING

Blue21 is the world’s leading company providing design, engineering and consultancy in realizing floating urban and maritime projects. With our expertise in floating innovations and building strategic partnership worldwide, we are dedicated to solving the grand challenges of the 21st century: rising sea levels, climate change and urbanization. We are ready to guide you from concept to realization for your sustainable floating project. Together let’s create circular and resilient living spaces for billions.

Innozowa

Floating Pavilion

Boekhome

Harnaschpolder

WHY ON THE WATER

Water offers infinite opportunities. It is the key to economic progress and offers
immense potential for implementing innovative solutions.

Land is scarce and expensive.

Two-thirds of the global population will live in cities by 2050, and most cities struggle to build and expand. New space can be created with floating structures on the water, which covers 70% of our planet.

Floating can reduce green house gases (GHGs).

Floating requires less building materials than land reclamation, and offers diverse applications. With floating algae farms, CO2 in the air and nutrients in wastewater can be captured and turned into biofuels.

Adaptation helps build resilience.

Building on the water offers us the capacity to cope with rising sea levels, flooding and other climate hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Water provides a safer living environment to land.

OUR CLIENTS

Blue21 receives requests from all over the world by clients in both the public and private sector to deliver our unique floating urban development expertise, experience and solutions.

OUR FLOATING PROJECTS

Discover how we are building sustainable living environments worldwide.

Floating Boekhome

Floating Pavilion

Affordable floating houses

Floating Homes Woerden

Floating Airport

BlueRevolution

Blue and Green Stream

Bluelands

We help realize your dreams

From picture to project

With our extensive experience and expert network of partners, we have the knowledge and expertise to guide you through the entire development process of your floating project. For each step we combine our in-house expertise and work with reliable partners. Take a look at the comprehensive overview of Our Services through the floating project development value chain. Realize my dream>

OUR SERVICES

We are a global knowledge leader for the design, technology and realization of climate resilient floating projects in delta cities world-wide. Tap into our Knowledge Base to view our state-of-the-art research findings on floating development.

Go to our ‘Floating Tech Knowledge base’ >

1. INITIATIVE

2. DESIGN

Detailed Studies

Design Developments

Implementation Plan

3. ENGINEER

Maritime Engineering

Civil Engineering

System Integration

4. BUILD & ENJOY

Construction

Project Management

Commisioning

WE’RE DATA DRIVEN

We use the cutting-edge toolkit HydroMEC+ inhouse, and the advanced aquatic drones Indymo for our research and implementation of floating projects. By simulations and leveraging scientific data, we ensure optimal results for our clients.

Advanced simulation toolkit.

We have integrated the revolutionary power of HydroMEC+, the world’s pioneering design and simulation toolkit for evaluating floating urban development in challenging maritime conditions. With the use of our HydroMEC+ toolkit we transform your project into a resounding success. Find out more about HydroMEC+.

Unmanned aquatic drones.

The cutting-edge Indymo aquatic drones are equipped to efficiently gather crucial underwater imagery, collect precise water samples, and gather comprehensive data on water quality and ecology. Indymo has an exceptional sensor and camera mobility, and offers an unparalleled 3D perspective for in-depth analysis of water bodies. Find out more about Indymo.

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HOW WE WORK

Get to know your journey and the steps we take through the value chain of floating project development

Step 1

RESEARCH & INITIATE

Location matters. We start off by investigating the environmental characteristics of your project location, conducting feasibility studies and helping you shape your strategic vision and business case. We are proactive in our approach and we help build strategic partnerships that will help you gather support needed for your project.

Step 2

DESIGN & 3D VISUALISATION

A picture is worth a thousand words. We help tell the story of your project. Unlike other architecture studios which hitch-hike on the floating city hype and make nice renders, Blue21 integrates knowledge from various disciplines. We make plans and designs that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also technically feasible. We are bold and creative, visionary and very practical.

Step 3

ENGINEERING

We have a unique team of engineers covering different domains: maritime, civil, hydraulic, and industrial. We simulate to make sure that your floating structure is well engineered to cope with local wave conditions. We ensure that state-of-the- art building technologies can be applied and utilities well integrated. We help you develop manufacturing and production strategy, taking you step-by-step to scale up.

Step 4

BUILD & ENJOY

We supervise the construction process to make sure that your floating project does not get messed up by unexperienced companies. We guide partners from the start of construction through to completion; facilitating collaboration and providing assistance on environmental monitoring and maintenance guidance. All you need to do is to get ready and embrace your floating project when it is completed!

WHAT ABOUT YOUR PROJECT?

We support our clients whenever and wherever they need us for their projects. Get in touch now for a consultation.

TESTIMONIALS

Hear what our clients think about us and why they want to work with us.

“Blue21’s global network, clients, and involvement in cutting-edge research and innovative projects make them a truly unique and inspiring partner.”

“Their proactive approach, inquisitive mindset, and remarkable ability to engage and collaborate with others have been invaluable in expanding the horizons of Shimizu Corporation’s floating business.”

Akane Takahashi

Civil Engineer and Floating Market Researcher

Emerging Frontier Division Ocean Programs

SHIMIZU CORPORATION

“Blue21’s engineering knowledge has increased our confidence”

“Blue21’s engineering knowledge has increased our confidence to tackle the unknows when dealing with floating structures.“

Jaap Peters

Project manager – Engineering Office
City of Rotterdam

“We chose Blue21 because of their design approach to floating projects.”

“We chose Blue21 as a partner for Innozowa because of their vision, imagination, structured and integrated design approach to floating projects. We are builders!”

Johan Bakker

Former Innovation director – Waterschap Rivierenland

“Their experiences and knowledge are highly valuable Dutch know-how.“

“B21 is one of the top leading Dutch experts in floating urban development. Their experiences and knowledge are highly valuable Dutch know-how and can contribute to shaping a more climate resilient and adaptive future for all.“

Arnoud Molenaar

Chief Resilience Officer – Municipality of Rotterdam & Affiliated Lead Cities at Global Centre on Adaptation

AS FEATURED IN

OUR MISSION

With every project we contribute to our mission: realize floating cities with a positive impact on the planet. Through this we believe we can solve the biggest challenges of the 21st century: land scarcity, urban growth and climate change.

“Around the world people are seeing how they need to redefine their relationship with water. Floating solutions can make cities more resilient and create new ecosystems at the same time. It is part of the innovative Dutch delta technology ‘toolkit’ which can contribute to tackling many climate and urban challenges our world is and will be facing.”

Rutger de Graaf | Co-founder Blue21

THE FLOATING TEAM

Within our team, a unique collaboration has been established between architects, urban designers, water managers, civil engineers and maritime engineers. Our experts have a strong academic background (MSc/PhD) and have graduated from world leading universities. Do you want work at Blue21? Check out our vacancies & internships >