Innovative Design and 'Living Seawalls' Can Improve an Imperfect Solution – Commercial Observer
It’s a new era of design and construction for the waterfront barriers as the old ways crumble.
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It’s a new era of design and construction for the waterfront barriers as the old ways crumble.
Retrofit, rebuild, research, revise: Miami’s climate change strategy, explained
‘This is essential for our future,’ said Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
It's become common to see new homes in South Florida constructed on land raised by trucked-in gravel. But neighbors wonder — especially after the latest “rain bomb” to hit Fort Lauderdale — if the standards to raise new construction make flooding worse for surrounding older homes.
Complaints of new development worsening flooding in surrounding areas are common across South Florida, and floodplain experts say it underlines a problem with perhaps the leading strategy for coping with flooding driven by climate change.