Resilient by Design: Adapting Our Coasts for Tomorrow

Coastal communities are the most vulnerable to our changing climate and flooding, but the impacts extend well beyond residents. Landowners and developers, industries such as tourism, and ports critical for global trade, all experience impacts in various ways. Addressing these risks requires a thoughtful approach that integrates coastal engineering and resiliency strategies tailored to tidally influenced environments.

By combining science-driven solutions with strategic planning, coastal resilient environments are born to help mitigate the impacts of a changing climate.

When faced with evolving flood risk and changing coastal conditions, there are three primary strategies to consider:

VHB is a leader in coastal engineering and resiliency (CE&R), developing unique, sustainable, and adaptable solutions aimed to improve waterfront developments and industrial operations, mitigating storm related risks and enhancing the resilience of coastal zones.

Our dedicated CE&R team of urban, waterfront and resilience planners, natural scientists, and water resource and coastal engineers have worked with numerous communities to develop unique, sustainable, and adaptable solutions. 

We design and permit:

• Dikes & Levees
• Tide Gates
• Living Shorelines
• Nearshore Breakwaters
• Pump Stations
• Beach Nourishment
• Roadway Elevation
• Permitting & Construction

VHB’s extensive network and well-established relationships across the East Coast enable us to effectively address the complex challenges faced by coastal communities, waterfront owners and operators, and their infrastructure. Our client base is diverse, including coastal communities, major port authorities, federal and state agencies, developers, private industry, and insurance companies. See for yourself: