Services
Beach & Inlet Management
Beaches provide many benefits to communities including recreational opportunities, environmental enhancement, and storm damage reduction. When allowed to go unchecked, beach erosion can eliminate all of the benefits that accrue from a healthy beach. Read more…
Dredging
Dredging and managing dredged material are critical components in many waterfront projects. Navigation channels, harbors, and port berths typically require dredging to establish and maintain adequate depths. Over the past two decades, Taylor Engineering’s engineers have guided dredging activities through all stages, from project concept to project completion. Read more…
Environmental Restoration & Permitting
Ever-increasing eco sensitivity has forced engineers to consider the environmental effects of the projects they propose. Indeed, most projects, regardless of complexity, require some level of environmental compliance. Read more…
Federal Project Planning & Programming
Taylor Engineering has gained a thorough understanding of the federal process through experience — including plan formulation, design, geotechnical investigations, permitting, limited construction observation, monitoring, and economic elements — with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) shore protection, environmental restoration, and navigation studies and projects. Read more…
Infrastructure Flood Risk Management
Our desire to live and work near coasts and riverbanks puts our lives and livelihoods at risk from coastal storm surge and rainfall runoff flooding. Given that populations cluster within flood-prone areas, Taylor Engineering strives to understand and quantify an area’s flood risk, communicate that risk to stakeholders, and mitigate those risks. Read more…
Marinas, Docks, & Piers
Taylor Engineering provides innovative design approaches to overcome engineering challenges and environmental constraints inherent to the dynamic marine environment. We provide both public and private clients a full range of engineering services for design, development, and construction of new marina, dock, and pier projects as well as experience in observation, assessment, evaluation, and renovation design for existing facilities. Read more…
Natural Resource Assessments
Water-related projects typically affect natural resources. Projects of all types — beach nourishment; marina construction and renovation; coastal and inland waterfront construction; dredging; dredged material management plans; dredged material management facility construction; and habitat restoration, among others — may have positive or negative impacts on terrestrial, wetland, and submerged aquatic communities. Read more…
Ports, Harbors, & Navigation
Many waterways, ports, and harbors often face common challenges — sedimentation of waterway entrances, failing infrastructure, wave agitation inside mooring basins, degradation of water quality, and navigation safety with respect to water conditions and other vessels. Taylor Engineering has a long history of providing port and harbor facility managers with a range of services to address these challenges. Read more…
Stormwater
Taylor Engineering incorporates its surface water modeling, GIS expertise, and structural engineering into a powerful stormwater management team with experience in large, basin-wide studies and smaller-scale studies that focus on a single urban development. Read more…
Water Resources Management
People, as do every other living creature, require water to live. As such, no other natural resource warrants more attention than water affords. Given sufficient quantities of appropriate quality in desired locations, water also enhances our daily lives and provides recreational opportunities. However, too much or too little water of less than desirable quality in unwanted areas can produce devastating effects to live and infrastructure. Read more…
Waterway & Marine Structures
Taylor Engineering leverages specialized skills and advanced design tools to address the unique requirements of marine structural design and engineering projects. We include coastal and water resources engineers with experience in the assessment of environmental loads — wind, waves, currents, and tidal forces — common to marine structures. Read more…