Projects
Bathtub Beach Restoration Design, Permitting, & Construction Administration
A reef extending parallel from shore near Jensen Beach creates a bathtub-shaped indention in the shoreline. Now a county park, Bathtub Beach provides snorkelers and swimmers access to the shallow reef at the ocean’s edge of the bathtub. In 2008, storms eroded the beach, and damaged adjacent park buildings and parking lot. Storm waves washed over the park’s only access road and undermined the pile foundations of homes immediately north of the park.Read more…
Bridge Hydraulic Studies, Scour Studies, & Engineering Analyses
As a prime subcontractor to firms with contracts to the Jacksonville Port Authority and state departments of transportation, Taylor Engineering has conducted over 60 bridge hydraulic and scour studies throughout South Carolina and Florida, including the historic Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine, the Fort George Bridge, and two other bridges spanning the St. Johns River to Blount Island in Jacksonville. Read more…
Broward County Intracoastal Waterway and Dania Canal Deepening
The Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) retained Taylor Engineering to permit, design, and to provide construction-phase services for two deepening projects within a portion of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICWW) and Dania Cutoff Canal (DCC) in Broward County, Florida. The ICWW projects involved preliminary design, intensive permitting and coordination, field investigation and site reconnaissance reports, wetland and wildlife impact assessments, dredged material quantity/quality analysis, sediment and erosion control measures, natural resources impact evaluation, and a uniform mitigation assessment method (UMAM) analysis.Read more…
Dredged Material Management Program for the Florida Inland Navigation District
Since 1986, Taylor Engineering has worked with the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) to prepare and implement long-term dredged material management plans for 502 miles of federal navigation channel. The primary program objective is to locate, obtain, design, and permit dredged material management areas (DMMAs) capable of handling projected 50-year maintenance dredging requirements in 12 Florida counties. Read more…
Dubois Park Redevelopment & Seawall Replacement
Taylor Engineering completed Phase I (Feasibility and Planning) and Phase II (Permitting and Engineering Design) for the Dubois Park redevelopment project, located along the shoreline of Jupiter Inlet. Phase I involved an evaluation of existing park facilities, a natural resource survey, conceptual layouts for a day dock facility, shoreline protection, and snorkeling area configurations. During Phase II, Taylor Engineering prepared the application, secured an Environmental Resource Permit, and prepared engineering design drawings and specifications for all project components. Read more…
FEMA Flood Insurance Studies & Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps
Taylor Engineering has completed or is currently working on flood insurance studies (FIS) for over 44 Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas counties, and 19 Louisiana parishes. These comprehensive, countywide engineering analyses of riverine and coastal flood hazards include storm surge, erosion, and wave modeling in tidal areas; stream channel topographic surveys; and basin-wide hydrologic and hydraulic modeling. In North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida, Taylor Engineering has also conducted extensive floodplain analyses and studies that find their applications in FEMA FIS and bridge hydraulic analyses. Read more…