CWP Engineering has signed a five-year agreement with Università del Salento and its EUMER Laboratory in Italy to collaborate on research and consultancy in hydraulics, maritime construction and offshore engineering.
The agreement brings the Dubai-headquartered coastal and port engineering firm together with the university’s Department of Innovation Engineering and the EUMER Laboratory, which has wave-generation and measurement equipment for physical testing of coastal and offshore engineering concepts.
The work will also extend into digital tools the firm has been developing, including AI-supported design optimisation and digital twins for port systems, paired with EUMER’s experimental data to validate how those tools perform under real conditions.
The partners will develop physical and numerical models covering sediment transport, wave mechanics, and port and coastal resilience, while pursuing funding from EU, public and private sources.
“The EUMER Laboratory’s world-class experimental infrastructure for hydraulics and offshore engineering, combined with the university’s excellence in innovation engineering, creates a powerful foundation for advancing coastal and port engineering,” said Francesco Ciardulli, CEO at CWP Engineering.
The agreement runs for five years, with an option to renew.
