Building with Nature
Science based Design

Living Seawalls is designed to benefit both humans and nature

Featured in Marine Industry News

Living Seawalls installation in collaboration with University of Plymouth is featured with exciting updates!

“Living Seawalls have been shown to transform structures along our coastlines, turning flat, lifeless walls into havens of biodiversity, by combining decades of ecological and engineering knowledge,” — Jess Allen, University of Plymouth

Read more about our Living Seawalls installation at Sutton Harbour in Plymouth, Wales. Click here!

THE PROBLEM

The world is experiencing a construction boom in our seas. Globally, the area of the seafloor impacted by built infrastructure is greater than the area of the world’s mangrove and seagrass forests. Structures such as seawalls, pilings, pontoons and marinas are built for diverse purposes such as shoreline protection, recreational activities and energy generation, but lack the complexity required for a biodiverse marine environment.

THE SOLUTION

Living Seawalls has shown that despite marine construction being a large part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution. By blending ecological concepts and engineering in creative design, our team is reviving our increasingly urbanised oceans through the development of affordable, adaptable and scalable methods of ecologically enhancing structures.