Adapt development plans to minimize risks and enhance the marine coastal environment.
CHALLENGE
Standardized best-practice guidelines and recommendations occasionally fall short when applied to real-world development plans and spatial plans. Navigating complex and fragmented scientific evidence, and translating findings into context-specific designs and decisions is highly challenging.
REQUEST
Assess expected environmental risks and impacts associated with proposed methods, materials or structure, and propose measures that can reduce negative impacts and, where possible, enhance ecological function. Provide concrete recommendations on how specific structures and interventions can be designed or leveraged to support the local marine environment.
DELIVERABLE
Standard foundation designs can resuspend particles continuously, suffocating seabed organisms and creating barren “dead zones” unattractive to fish and other mobile life.
