Coastal Engineering
With several decades of experience in marine and coastal engineering, planning, modelling projects throughout Canada and internationally, our coastal engineering team has completed a wide range of projects along Canada’s most diverse coastlines, in multi-seasonal climates, and in both heavily urbanized and rural areas. We are proud to be recognized as an industry leader in the Atlantic region and abroad for implementing innovative, industry-leading science-based designs and coastal engineering assignments along shorelines of rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Our expertise is in the following key categories:
- Coastal restoration including coastal zone management
- Shoreline stabilization
- Erosion control
- Natural and nature-based living shorelines
- Design and development of marine infrastructure including breakwaters, seawalls, revetments, and other innovative shoreline protection measures
- Small craft harbour and marine facility master planning, including wave agitation and navigation studies
- Sophisticated numerical modelling of waves, currents, tides, and storm surge using a variety of industry-standard numerical models
- Geomorphology and sediment transport assessments of cross-shore and long-shore sediment transport processes
- Environmental investigations & permitting including water quality, marine outfall, receiving water and dredging studies
- Coastal climate change vulnerability assessments including the development of risk criteria and coastal adaptation assessments
- Coastal planning, policy, and regulatory investigations
- Field investigations including the deployment of metocean monitoring equipment, marine sediment sampling, shoreline change analysis, and bathymetric surveys
Contact:
Andrew Gates – VP Infrastructure
andrewg@cbcl.ca
902-492-6755