Environmental Water SOQ

Coastal Engineering Thirty percent of the U.S. population lives in coastal counties vulnerable to sea level rise. Commercial trade, tourism and devel opment, natural phenomena, and environ mental protection are all factors impacting our coastlines.

We provide complete services for the design and rehabilitation of beaches and coastal struc tures, such as wharves, jetties, piers, breakwaters, groins, shoreline armoring, and access channels. We have the expertise and tools to identify, adapt and integrate advanced solutions into shoreline systems that improve the performance and safety of ocean, coastal, and marine operations. We help our clients tackle the challenges and risks presented by sea level rise to protect infrastructure, property, and people from flooding and severe weather events. WSP is an industry leader in planning and delivering resil ient infrastructure for current and future coastal sea-level rise (SLR), storm events and inland flooding. We help clients proactively address environmental changes by strengthen ing what is currently in place and weaving resilience into new plans and designs. z Our work incorporates lessons learned and best practices from high-profile national resiliency projects that we have conducted for climate resiliency planning and design for many communities. z Our vast risk/vulnerability assessment and resilient infrastructure design and implementation. experience has helped hundreds of clients tackle climate-related challenges over the past two decades. z The WSP team has experience linking pre- and post-disaster programs with resilient infrastructure investments.

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