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Breakwaters 

COWI is an international name in the design of breakwaters. Our experience reaches from fundamental scientific research to design and supervision of construction.

Optimised solutions

COWI's staff has more than 30 years experience from over 150 international breakwater projects in 5 continents.

The experience includes all types of breakwater from rubble mound to caisson. In addition the experience includes an extensive variety of armour units such as quarry rock, cubes, grooved cubes, dolos, tetrapods, accropodes, and CORE-LOC.   

Breakwater design

COWI uses its in-house capabilities in numerical modelling of wave propagation as basis for evaluation of design data. The conceptional and detailed design of breakwaters is based upon our vast experience and detailed analysis of the various options.

We specify and supervise 2D flume tests and 3D physical model tests.

In the event of poor ground conditions, state of the art soil structure interaction analysis software is used to analyse the breakwater foundation and defne soil improvement works as necessary.

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Cost effective solutions

COWI's knowledge of breakwater construction techniques enables cost effective solutions to be developed.   In many instances COWI acts as specialist advisor for projects that have experienced difficulties in order to develop cost effective, constructible repair solutions.