Construction observation services and engineering certification
Coastal Engineering Since its inception, Taylor Engineering has helped federal, state, and local government agencies identify causes and develop innovative solutions for all types of coastal problems. Ranging from specific to comprehensive, these projects address plan formulation, coastal processes analyses, and shore protection. Project elements include, in part, sediment budgets, littoral drift, coastal structures, wave generation and propagation, wave and inlet hydrodynamics and sediment transport, beach restoration, economics, storm impacts, and post-storm beach assessment and management. Coastal Processes, Modeling, and Analysis Understanding a region’s coastal processes and their effects on the coastal system is a crucial element of nearly every coastal engineering project. Taylor Engineering has extensive experience in every aspect of coastal processes analyses including shoreline changes, beach volume changes, empirical orthogonal analyses, sediment budgets, littoral transport (by waves, tides, and winds), storm effects, inlet management, sand bypassing, storm damage assessments, wave modeling, tidal hydrodynamics modeling, and beach modeling. We apply wave models (USACE models RCPWAVE, WISWAVE, and STWAVE; REFDIF; FUNWAVE; MIKE21; and in-house developed models) to investigate borrow site mining impacts on fronting beaches, analyze the effects of hardbottom on nearshore beach behavior, assess the effects of structures on adjacent shorelines and shoal systems, analyze inlet shoaling, estimate sediment transport in the littoral zone, design coastal structures, and provide input to shoreline change and dune erosion models. Example applications include USACE projects in Ft. George Island, Jacksonville Beach, St. Augustine Inlet, Martin County, Ft. Pierce Beach, Amelia Island, Key Biscayne, Panama City Beach, and Gasparilla Island; and local government projects in Marco Island, Ft. Pierce Beach, Walton County, Destin, Okaloosa Island, Eglin AFB, Jupiter Island, and St. Johns County. For projects in coastal Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina, we applied STWAVE to evaluate nearshore wave conditions and provide radiation stresses to produce wave-induced water level changes in the hydrodynamic model ADCIRC. Taylor Engineering’s beach modeling applications include storm erosion modeling and shoreline change modeling to assess the storm damage risk to upland development, to help design shore protection projects, and to quantify beach restoration benefits. Modeling capabilities include GENESIS, DNRBS, SBEACH, EDUNE, CCCL, MIKE21, n-line model, and in-house developed models. Selected applications include USACE projects in Amelia Island, St. Augustine Beach, Ponce De Leon Inlet, New Smyrna Beach, Ft. Pierce Beach, Panama City Beach, and Key Biscayne; and local sponsor projects in Walton County, Destin, Okaloosa Island, and Eglin AFB. We also apply tidal hydrodynamics models (ADCIRC, RMA2, FESWMS, MIKE21) to design inlet jetties, to compute storm surge, to assess inlet impacts on adjacent beaches, to examine flushing and water quality, and to define inlet shoal dredging templates by examining impacts on inlet shoaling, navigation, and adjacent beaches. We also model tidal currents to estimate impacts of thermal plumes on sediment entrainment, to design coastal structures at inlets, and to quantify water quality for beach fill projects. Applications include local and/or USACE projects at Marco Island, East Pass, Nassau Sound, St. Johns River Entrance, St. Augustine Inlet, Ponce De Leon Inlet, Ft. Pierce Inlet, and Charlotte Harbor. In partnership with URS, Taylor Engineering is developing ADCIRC and STWAVE models for the South Carolina coastline to determine storm surge caused by hurricanes.
Design, Engineering and Permitting Services Re-nourishment of the Barefoot, Vanderbilt, Clam Pass, Park Shore, Naples, and Marco Island South Beaches – RFP#11-5772