DEME Engineering & Design
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions combining hard engineering with ecosystem creation, from beach nourishment to reef, wetland, mangrove, seagrass and coral restoration.
Description
DEME’s Nature-based Solutions (NbS) strategy builds ecological principles into engineering, balancing grey (hard) structures with green solutions.
Key features
- Sandy solutions such as beach nourishment and dunes
- Seabed landscaping at borrow pits
- Beneficial use of soft sediments
- Ecologically enhanced hard engineering
- Biogenic or artificial reefs
- Wetland, mangrove, seagrass and coral restoration
- Habitat creation inside offshore wind lease areas
Applications
Coastal protection and habitat creation. One example is the 2022 creation of two bird islands in Poland’s Szczecin Lagoon from material dredged for a 65 km access channel.
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