Tag Archives: coastal defences

The Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk is seeking a contractor to undertake a survey of the sea defences in Hunstanton.

Balfour Beatty has been appointed to deliver two coastal defence schemes for North Norfolk District Council in Cromer and Mundesley.

Socotec UK has begun ground investigations for the Environment Agency’s coastal defence scheme between St Helens and Bembridge – the second it is currently involved in on the Isle of Wight.

The Environment Agency is set to start ground investigations on a coastal defence scheme on the eastern coast of the Isle of Wight.

Irish Rail has awarded Jacobs a design contract to help defend sections of the essential Dublin to Rosslare rail line from coastal erosion and flooding for the next 100 years.

Marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded two new contracts to protect a 6km stretch of coastline in south east Romania against erosion.

Sheet Piling UK is involved in a project to strengthen the sea defences in a village in north Wales.

Coastlines continue to be in jeopardy from climate change and ongoing residential and infrastructure development. Byrne Looby geotechnical engineer William O’Connor discusses a recent paper investigating persistent scattered interferometry as a coastal erosion monitoring tool.

A new £1.7M coastal defence project along the A82 in the town of Fort William in western Scotland has been completed.

Belgium-based civil engineering company Jan De Nul will start dredging and beach replenishment works along the Flemish coast on 15 February.