Coastal
In a time of global climate change and
sea-level rise, coupled with increasing weight given to the
environment, it is increasingly important to make sure that any
development at the coast or in the sea is properly designed, taking
into account coastal processes, and that its impact is understood,
quantified and sufficiently mitigated. In the marine environment,
failure to do this can be costly, with major unforeseen adverse
impacts both environmentally and economically.
Our service ranges from high-level coastal planning where we
provide long-term management plans for the coast on a regional or
national basis, to the design and environmental assessment of
individual projects. Our coastal engineers and modellers are
experts in this field. Originally seen as an engineering discipline
concerned mainly with prevention of erosion, our Coastal service is
applied more and more as a tool to help ensure projects are
sustainable and to optimise projects in terms of environmental
impact or cost-effectiveness.
Scott Wilson provides services and solutions
to support all of the following areas of activity:
- Ports and harbours
- Offshore wind, wave and tidal energy
- Waterfront development
- Dredging
- Artificial Islands and marine reclamation
- Coastal flood and erosion defence
- Coastal flood risk assessment
- Flood warning
- Integrated coastal zone management
Scott Wilson’s technical capability includes
the full spectrum of engineering, modelling, environmental and
economic services such as:
- Coastal planning
- Numerical modelling of waves, tides, currents, sediments, and
water quality using state-of-the-art software
- Specification, procurement and supervision of physical
modelling in 2D and 3D
- Design of hard engineering solutions including sea walls,
revetments, groynes, outfalls, breakwaters
- Design of beaches and wetlands
- Design of dredged channels
- Design of marinas and harbours
- Stakeholder engagement and consultation
- One of our key strengths is our ability to provide all of the
services in-house and to integrate them within multi-disciplinary
project teams
