Like many New Jersey shore communities, Gandy’s Beach was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The solution? Engage school communities in a real-world restoration project: Building a living breakwater from bags of old shells to protect both oyster beds and shoreline from future storm damage.

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Tags: beach restoration, citizen engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental science, Hurricane Sandy, living reef, National Fish and Wildlife Service, Nature Conservency, oyster beds, Programs for Students, Project PORTS, resilence, Rutgers University

Hurricane Sandy’s devastating floods exposed the need to re-engineer coastal communities for resilience and sparked a novel method to generate innovative design solutions: Crowd-sourcing. The six competition winners are now putting their ideas into practice.

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Tags: Civil Engineering, coastal engineering, crowdsourcing, design contest, Environmental Engineering, flooding, Hurricane Sandy, New York, Public Policy, rebuild by design, resilient structures