Resilience/SLR

  • Water for the Future
  • Climate Resiliency
  • Financially Feasible Adaptation Strategies
  • Adaptation Pathways
  • Community Engagement
  • Medium and Long-Term Rising Sea Level Risks

The effects of Sea Level Rise (SLR) range from inconveniences to the public, such as the closure of roads, to long-term infrastructure damage and overwhelmed storm drains. Nova evaluates and advises on adaptation strategies that address rising sea level risks. This work involves the evaluation of alternative resiliency strategies based on their technical effectiveness, economic impacts, and benefits to the community.

Representative Projects

Sea Level Rise

Newtown Creek & Hunts Point WWTP

Water Management Planning

Miami Dade Regulatory and Economic Resources Department, Adaptation Strategies to Respond to Sea Level Rise in Miami Dade County
Miami, Florida

As part of ongoing efforts to address concerns regarding sea level rise impacts to South Florida, and Miami-Dade County in particular; the Miami-Dade Regulatory and Economic Resources Department (MDRER) solicited professional architectural and engineering services to evaluate adaptation strategies that address medium and long-term rising sea level risks. This work involves the evaluation of alternative resiliency strategies on the basis of their technical efficacy, economic impacts, and benefits to the community. These strategies are based on research and modeling work that has already been completed and expertise in the fields of engineering, economics, adaptation planning, financing, and community engagement is required to evaluate these potential strategies.

Nova is providing technical assessment support in connection with Civil and Environmental Engineering Strategies applicable to Water, Wastewater and Stormwater infrastructure

New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Resiliency Design and Design Services During Construction at Newtown Creek & Hunts Point WWTP
New York, New York

During Super Storm Sandy, the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were damaged by flooding. As a result of this event, the NYCDEP issued its Wastewater Resiliency Plan in October 2013, which proposes a range of protective adaptation strategies for its wastewater facilities infrastructure to provide resilience against future storms.

As part of the Bureau of Engineering Design and Construction (BEDC) capital program project, Nova has been tasked with engineering services support under the RLCY-HP (Hunts Point WWTP) and RLCY-HP (Newtown Creek WWTP) task order contracts. Nova’s scope in the conceptual, 45%, 90%, and 100% design packages include providing services in cost estimation, construction schedules, technical specification preparation, and civil site peer review.

New York City Department of Environmental Protection, IWMPA: Integrated Water Management Planning and Assessment
New York, New York

Integrated Water Management Planning and Assessment (IWMPA) program is supporting on-going sustainability initiatives to reduce water demand, support beneficial reuse of stormwater and wastewater, enhance resilience of the City’s water and wastewater infrastructure to climate change, and reduce the system’s energy use and carbon footprint.

Nova is providing multidisciplinary technical and planning support for integrated water management and demand management and projects leading up to the 2022 shutdown of the Delaware Aqueduct. Nova is tasked with collecting, compiling, and analyzing extensive water-use datasets as well as relevant climate, infrastructure, and socio-economic data. Nova is responsible for organizing and manipulating data in SQL databases and identifying geospatial trends to support the update of the City’s water-consumption projects. In addition, Nova is tasked with providing support in environmental services as well as public outreach.

PortMiami Representative Services
Miami, FL

Nova is prime consultant providing owner representation services, construction inspection/management, project controls, claim avoidance, design, and design management, permitting, value analysis and life-cycle costing for PortMiami during its expansive development program.

Nova is providing support in overseeing the construction of approximately $2.8 billion worth of new infrastructure and facilities that are projected to be completed over the next 5 years, that coincides with the expected new cruise services, and cargo yard efficiencies and improvements. These projects include, but are not limited to, 5 new cruise berths and associated terminals, new cruise berthing facilities, upgrades and expansions of existing cruise terminals, and other significant investments in cargo terminal yards, gantry cranes, gate complexes, Ropax facilities, roadways, rail systems and supporting infrastructure.