Climate Resilience Planning & Design

SLR is a leader in climate adaptation and resilience planning and design, spanning geographies and across sectors. Our work helps governments and companies understand, plan for and address climate-related challenges resulting from sea level rise and intense precipitation, drought, and extreme heat. Our holistic approach to climate resilience strives to be inclusive and multi-disciplinary in order to develop place-based strategies to protect people, infrastructure and the environment, and create better outcomes into the future.

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Overview

Climate resilience planning and design typically span many disciplines. We offer full integration of our speciality practises in community planning, hazard assessment and modelling, water resource engineering, landscape architecture, water and wastewater engineering, civil/structural engineering, transportation engineering, and construction administration, to bring projects from the planning level through design and construction.

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Climate Resilience Planning & Design Services

  • Our services include
    • Hazard mitigation planning
    • Hazard mitigation feasibility studies
    • Climate resilience planning
    • Shoreline management and protection strategies
    • Facility vulnerability assessments
    • Critical infrastructure & utility assessments
    • Nature-based solutions
    • Stakeholder engagement.

Climate Resilience Planning & Design Projects

  • Project

    Global

    World Council on City Data

    Built Environment

    City resiliency - World Council on City Data (ISO 37120)

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    Ontario, Canada

    Capital Power

    Power, Renewables & Energy

    Permitting and engagement support for Ontario power projects

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    Ontario, Canada

    Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affair and Housing (MMAH), Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP)

    Built Environment

    Climate adaption for the Ontario Building Code

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    Ontario, Canada

    Peak Power Energy

    Power, Renewables & Energy

    Peak Power weather forecasting

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    Project

    Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

    Vermont River Conservancy and Town of Brattleboro, VT

    Government & Communities

    Kikitta Ahki – Floodplain restoration and park design along Whetstone Brook

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  • Project

    New York, USA

    Resilient NY Program

    Government & Communities

    New York State flooding & climate change resilience studies

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  • Project

    Groton, Connecticut, USA

    Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve

    Built Environment

    Formulating a Site Plan to Support the Ecology and Management Needs of the Bluff Point Properties, in Groton CT

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  • Project

    Massachusetts, USA

    MassDOT

    Infrastructure

    Rivers and Roads Training Program in Massachusetts

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  • Project

    Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

    Brattleboro Housing Partnership

    Infrastructure

    Melrose Terrace floodplain restoration

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  • Project

    West Haven, Connecticut, USA

    City of West Haven, CT

    Infrastructure

    Cove River tidal marsh restoration, pedestrian bridge and Sea Bluff Beach park improvements

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  • Project

    Connecticut, USA

    The Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation

    Government & Communities

    Regional framework for coastline resilience in Southern Connecticut

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  • Project

    New York, USA

    New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission

    Infrastructure

    Dockside Park shoreline stabilisation

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  • Project

    Multiple Locations, USA

    The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers

    Built Environment

    ASHRAE climate research project

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  • Project

    Global

    UNIDO

    Government & Communities

    V20 Group funding programme for climate change adaptation

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    Global

    UNIDO

    Government & Communities

    Climate adaptation innovation learning

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  • Project

    Multiple locations, Global

    UNIDO, Earth Security

    Government & Communities

    Climate change adaptation project support - sustainable finance

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  • Project

    Whitianga, New Zealand

    Thames-Coromandel District Council

    Government & Communities

    Buffalo Beach Coastal Management Plan

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  • Project

    New Zealand

    Greater Wellington Regional Council

    Government & Communities

    Guidance for Marine Offsetting and Compensation in New Zealand

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  • Project

    Kōpū, New Zealand

    Urban Solutions (For Thames-Coromandel District Council)

    Government & Communities

    Kōpū Marine Precinct Development

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  • Project

    Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand

    Ponui Aquaculture Ltd, co-owned by Auckland iwi Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki

    Manufacturing & Industry

    Ecological Assessments and Monitoring for the Ponui Island Marine Farm

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