The projects cover areas ranging from developing flexible sea walls to storm surge and wave models.
Professor Adrian Law, executive director of CFI Singapore, shaking hands with Ms Hazel Khoo, coastal protection department director in PUB, at a signing ceremony with five industry partners.
Coastal protection structures, ranging from concrete seawalls to sloping rock structures, or rock revetments, currently protect around 74 per cent of Singapore’s coastline. He was speaking to reporters at CFI Singapore’s inaugural symposium, Shaping Coastal and Flood Resilience through Progress and Partnership, held at NUS on Sept 26.With his expertise in geotechnical engineering, which involves work with underground structures such as the North-South Corridor, Mr Lee sees a lot of synergies between his skills and the field of coastal protection.
The project is one of 17 at CFI Singapore, covering areas ranging from developing flexible sea walls to storm surge and wave models. Another project, led by Associate Professor Peter Todd from the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS Faculty of Science, looks at optimising the growth of coastal species, such as mangroves, seagrasses and corals, and improving their survivability within hybrid coastal protection structures.
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