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Sign upSeptember 10, 2024
The New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal
Staten Island
The Living Breakwaters project in Staten Island was initiated after Hurricane Sandy’s impact on the area in 2012, especially the Tottenville neighborhood, which suffered severe erosion and flooding. Following the disaster, the federal Rebuild by Design competition was launched to develop coastal resilience solutions. The Living Breakwaters project, led by SCAPE Landscape Architects and partners including WSP and Arcadis, involves eight breakwaters designed to reduce erosion, minimise wave energy, and restore marine ecosystems. ECOncrete’s eco-engineered solutions, including hundreds of Armor Blocks and Tide Pool Armor units and provide 2.13 m² of colonisable surface area per Tide Pool unit and 4.42 m² per Armor Block unit, support marine biodiversity and enhance local ecosystems while protecting communities from future storms. The project also promotes biodiversity restoration by providing habitat for oysters, mussels, and other marine organisms, contributing to carbon sequestration and enhancing the local marine food web.
A $111 million project, co-funded by U.S. and New York State agencies, used ECOncrete’s bio-enhancing design to cut mitigation penalties by ~80% and reduce long-term maintenance costs. It created habitats for oysters, mussels, and marine plants, lowered embodied carbon with a 92% carbon-neutral admixture, and improved resilience to storm surges. Community partnerships and public input shaped accessible, educational waterfront spaces, making it a model for participatory coastal adaptation.
This $111 million investment is an innovative way we can diminish many of the dangerous effects of a changing climate. The 2,400-foot breakwater structures will reduce the strength of waves coming to shore, help combat erosion and enhance the local marine life at the same time.
RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner at New York State Homes and Community Renewal
ECOncrete Tech LTD provides a revolutionary science-based approach to eco-engineering of urban, coastal, and marine infrastructure, providing robust, environmentally sensitive concrete solutions for ever-growing climate change threats such as the sea-level rise and superstorms. ECOncrete developed a series of concrete mixes and science-based designs that create suitable biological conditions for the development of rich and diverse floral and faunal communities while providing structural function and complying with all standards for marine construction. ECOncrete's technology has exhibited positive, statistically significant results in numerous long-term evaluation studies conducted in both temperate and tropical environments.
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