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Living Breakwaters Design and Implementation

Staten Island, NY
  • Ecological Design
  • Public Engagement
  • Waterfront / Resiliency
  • Rebuild By Design Competition Winner, 2014
  • Buckminster Fuller Challenge Winner, 2014
  • ACEC NY Engineering Excellence Award, 2015
  • National Achievement Award for Environmental Planning, 2015

The SCAPE team was selected as one of the winning teams in the Rebuild by Design competition. The project is currently being implemented by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) with $60 million of CDBG-DR funding. Planned for the neighborhood of Tottenville, Staten Island, the project links in-water infrastructure with on-shore education and outreach, to help increase awareness of risk, enhance ecologies, and bring local school curriculum to the waterfront. SCAPE was commissioned by the GOSR to lead the schematic design process with a strong coalition of ecological and engineering partners, iteratively testing and designing scenarios for breakwater height, width, and location along the Tottenville shoreline. The team has worked closely with members of the community to create a design that benefits the community while positively affecting regional ecosystems and resiliency efforts. The schematic design process incorporates hydrodynamic and wave modeling, ecological data collection, active community feedback, agency coordination, and constructability assessment. Living Breakwaters is anticipated to move into construction in 2018. Read more about the implementation process at the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery project site.

Client

  • NYS Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery

Collaborators

Parsons Brinckerhoff
ARCADIS
Ocean and Coastal Consultants
SeArc Ecological Marine Consulting
The New York Harbor Foundation
LOT-EK Architecture
MFS Consulting Engineers
Prudent Engineering

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