

Foreshore Masterplanning
Masterplanning is a phase done early in development, aimed to collate critical, multi-disciplinary elements that will enable a project hold together, without reaching the stage of detailed engineering for all elements. Foreshore masterplanning can be a challenge, as shores change over time. Implications for getting it 'wrong', even by a few metres, can include significant impact to foreshore amenity, or high costs to undertake retroactive stabilisation. It is not always easy
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Hunting for Snarks: Augusta Boat Harbour
No... it's not a typo for the (anti?) charismatic megafauna which patrol our southern shores...
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Rejection, Perception and Corruption in Consulting
After 30 years in the engineering consulting industry, successfully identifying why a coastal design isn’t performing to expectations is...
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Little Green Groynes
With growing discussion on NBS and its application, here's a wildly empirical consideration of how riparian vegetation enhances foreshore...
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Five and half reasons why
The proliferation of coastal defences has been observed in many countries. While we are extremely fortunate in Western Australia to have...
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Bridges on Shifting Sands
Bridges are ‘masterworks’ of civil engineering, requiring structural, geotechnical, hydraulic and traffic engineering to come together....
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Soft Rock Shores
Unreliably stable, 'soft' rock shores are sometimes neglected from coastal zone policy, and have a playbook of obscure, sometimes...
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