Our goal is to provide specific and actionable project recommendations for hurricane protection and climate adaptation that could result in US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) feasibility studies.
The research and design work is proceeding in collaboration with members of the Army Corps of Engineers
Our goal is to provide specific and actionable project recommendations for hurricane protection and climate adaptation that could result in US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) feasibility studies.
The research and design work is proceeding in collaboration with members of the Army Corps of Engineers’ North Atlantic Division, including their National Planning Center for Coastal Storm Risk Management and the Corps’ Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
SCR aims to complement the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS), which was assigned to the USACE under authority of the Disaster Relief Appropriation Act of 2013. As part of a group of federal initiatives enacted in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, this study addresses the flood risks to vulnerable coastal populations via the design and deployment of structural, nonstructural, and ‘natural and nature based features’ (NNBFs).
Storm surges are one of the most devastating aspects of land-falling hurricanes.
Storm surges are the primary cause of death and a significant source of damage to ecological and structural systems. Areas along coastal regions are particularly vulnerable to these hazards.
The objective of the Structures of Coastal Resilience (SCR) engineering teams is to assess the risk of storm surge at the four susceptible locations identified by the design teams: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; Jamaica Bay, New York; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Norfolk and Hampton Roads, Virginia.
With consideration of the changing climate, we will assess the risk of storm surge for both current and future climate scenarios.
SCR combines state of the art climate science for local sea level rise estimation and probabalistic hurricane storm surge hazards assessment with imaginative design proposals for four communities on the North Atlantic coast.
SCR brings together a distinguished group of engineers, scientists, architects, landscape architects, and scholars, matching depth of design experience with the latest science. The project proposes designing for risk, suggesting that we can imagine and build resilient coastal communities not only through in-depth understanding of predicted changes