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Project updates, technical perspectives and lessons from our work across coastal engineering, marine infrastructure and project delivery.
Building within the limits a reef sets
On reef systems the environmental constraints are not a separate approvals exercise running alongside the engineering. They set the method. Where the works sit relative to living coral, how much sediment the water column…
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What survey data settles before design begins
Most of the risk in a coastal project is decided before any design work starts, in the quality and coverage of the survey behind it. Bathymetry, topography and ground conditions set the boundaries within…
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Reclamation: the questions worth settling early
Reclamation looks like an earthmoving problem and behaves like a geotechnical one. The fill is the visible part; the performance of the finished land depends on what happens underneath it and how quickly the…
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Shore protection on reef-fringed islands
A reef-fringed island does not behave like an open coastline, and designing for one as though it does is the most common way to get shore protection wrong. The reef flat dissipates a large…
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