Tag: natural infrastructure
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Stantec project highlight: Using modern technology and collaboration to uncover the sunken USS Monitor
For over 150 years, the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, rested off the coast of North Carolina. It wasn’t until 2025, when Stantec partnered up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Northrop Grumman, and SEARCH to survey the wreck off the coast of Cape Hatteras, that high-resolution sonar imagery helped…
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Science Podcast: Stantec and BMO on nature as critical infrastructure for businesses, cities, and communities
How can organizations create long-term value while strengthening resilience? In the Bank of Montreal’s (BMO) Sustainability Leaders podcast, Stantec’s Dom Kempson and Mike Morris explore the growing role of nature-based solutions in infrastructure, business strategy, and community resilience with BMO’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Michael Torrance. Give the conversation a listen: https://www.stantec.com/en/ideas/content/video/2026/nature-is-critical-infrastructure-for-businesses-cities-communities
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Sparking nature-positive outcomes through science at Stantec
How can engineering with nature reduce risk, restore ecosystems, and deliver community value? That’s the question at the heart of Stantec’s new Sparks story: Sparking Nature-Positive Outcomes. As climate extremes, aging infrastructure, and biodiversity loss reshape the risks facing communities, nature-based solutions are becoming an increasingly important part of the answer. By combining ecological design,…
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Stantec Delivers Engineering with Nature Across the Globe
This week, we’re highlighting our partner, Stantec, and their work in nature-based solutions (NbS). Stantec combines natural systems with engineering to help reduce risk and build resilience. Using strategies such as bioswales, wetlands, coastal restoration, and green infrastructure, NbS can help address biodiversity loss, flood and drought mitigation, water quality and scarcity while supporting carbon…
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July 2026 Knowledge Series: Applying Cutting Edge Technology to Engineering with Nature
Tyler Ortego, BC, CE, General Manager Coastal Solutions, Natrx Tyler Ortego from Natrx will share how advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing can be used to fully realizethe benefits of nature-based solutions in coastal resilience. Watch the recording here. The N-EWN Knowledge Series offers 1 Continuing Education Credit (CEC) per seminar. This…
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June 2026 Knowledge Series: The Design and Finance of Reef and Wetland Solutions to Protect People and Nature
Dr. Mike Beck, Director & Dr. Borja Reguero, Associate Professor, UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, Coastal Science and Policy Program, UC Santa Cruz Coastal risks are growing from changing conditions, development, and habitat loss. Wetlands and reefs provide billions of dollars annually in benefits for flood and erosion reduction; these benefits could finance much…
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May 2026 Knowledge Series: EWN Compass: Implementation Toolbox for Natural and Nature-Based Features
Sarah Copertino, Senior Environmental Scientist, US Army Corps of Engineers Integrating natural and nature-based features (NNBF) is a key element of modern, sustainable infrastructure. This seminar introduces the EWN Compass, a user-friendly ArcGIS application developed to support the efficient selection and integration of NNBF into infrastructure engineering projects. Participants will gain centralized access to relevant…
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April 2026 Knowledge Series: Modern, reproducible modeling workflows for water feature design
Anthony Aufdenkampe, LimnoTech Nature-based solutions (NBS) seek to improve water quality by leveraging natural ecological and biogeochemical processes, but the interplay between these processes, especially in moving water, is challenging to anticipate. When high confidence in outcomes is needed, stakeholders often turn to numerical modeling. However, most existing water simulation tools are outdated and based…
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March 2026 Knowledge Series: Dutch experience with beaches and dunes as coastal Natural and Nature Based Features for Flood Risk Management
An overview of 30 years of nature-basedcoastline management Quirijn Lodder & Evelien Brand, Rijkswaterstaat Coastal erosion threatens beaches and dunes globally. In the Netherlands, a coastline maintenance policy was implemented in the 1990’s to combat this erosion, with sand nourishments as the primary means. As a result, the Dutch coast is one of the most heavily…
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February 2026 Knowledge Series: Waterfront Design for Resilient Communities
Joseph Stukowi, Chief Waterfront Design Officer, Waterfront Alliance This webinar will discuss emerging trends in waterfront design with a focus on embedding resilience, providing access, and ecology in urban waterfronts.The presentation will include an overview of the Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG®) and case study projects from riverine, lacustrine, and coastal waterfronts across the U.S.…