Concrete walls that span 400km and reach nearly 15 meters high in places now line the coast to resist incoming waves and allow enough time for residents to evacuate in the event of another tsunami.

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — After Hurricanes Ian and Nicole devastated the coast, Daytona Beach researchers began looking into ways to make their concrete sea walls more resilient during storms.

Weymouth received a $102K state grant to complete a design for a new seawall on Fort Point Road. ... Tighe@Bond, a Westfield firm, suggests an11.5-foot concrete seawall built along Fort Point Road.

As the company put it, the design "enables them to function like a marine habitat." Founder Anya Freeman said the idea came ...

It’s a seawall but not your old-school plain poured concrete installation. This is a “living seawall” and it’s cutting-edge in both its design and how it is made.

Researchers tested tsunami protection “parks” that consist of rolling hills in place of concrete sea walls to see if the alternative is feasible. In simulations, … ...

LEAD DESIGN FIRM, CIVIL ENGINEER: CHA Consulting, Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTOR: C.D. Perry & Sons Inc. The rehabilitation of Troy’s 95-year-old seawall enhances the resiliency of the city’s ...

Concrete; Use of Cortec MCI-2005 Admixture Raises Seawall Service Life Prediction to 150+ Years. A new reinforced concrete seawall off the Gulf Coast of Florida is predicted to last more than 150 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The first portions of the new living seawall coming to San Francisco’s Embarcadero will be installed “most likely in September,” according to a scient… ...

Ancient Romans built concrete sea walls that have withstood pounding ocean waves for more than 2,000 years. Now, an international team has discovered a clue to the concrete’s longevity: a rare ...

Two thousand years ago, Roman builders constructed vast sea walls and harbor piers. The concrete they used outlasted the empire — and still holds lessons for modern engineers, scientists say. A ...

It’s a seawall but not your old-school plain poured concrete installation. This is a “living seawall” and it’s cutting-edge in both its design and how it is made.