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.

03-28-2022 DESIGN Inside the complicated paradox of building concrete sea walls The concrete breakwaters designed to protect people from the consequences of global warming also contribute to it.

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.

The alternative seawall plan included replacing the existing barrier with similar concrete and raising its height to 13.5 feet to keep waves from spilling over it.

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 ...

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

MCI-2005 admixture was manufactured locally at Cortec Biotechnology Campus in Sarasota, Florida, before the pouring of the reinforced concrete seawall nearby. Because of the admixture’s use in a ...

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 ...

Rising sea levels make building new apartments on the shore a risky proposition. But a new development in Boston is designed to expect—and mitigate—the inevitable more-frequent flooding.

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… ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia • At least 40 percent of Japan's 22,000-mile coastline is lined with concrete sea walls, breakwaters or other structures meant to protect the country against high waves, typhoons ...

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.