Integrated Design for Resilient Waterfronts
SmithGroup is a multidisciplinary planning, design, and engineering firm with a legacy of delivering innovative and resilient solutions. Our integrated teams, spanning architecture, engineering, planning, and design, work collaboratively to create transformative projects that align with client goals while responding thoughtfully to the built and natural environment.
As recognized experts in waterfront planning and design, we partner with our clients and communities to integrate the complex components required to engage water for both resource enhancement and placemaking benefits. Our Waterfront practice helps create more vibrant places that add transformative value to a community, preserve and enhance ecological function and integrity, and support abundant opportunities for water-based commerce, employment, redevelopment, recreation, and education.
Waterfront Practice Areas of Expertise:
- Capital planning and grant application support
- Resilience and coastal planning and design
- Multi-purpose infrastructure
- Adaptive reuse and reclamation
- Green infrastructure and stormwater management
- Habitat & ecological restoration
- Shoreline stabilization & erosion control
- Recreational boating facilities and marina design
- Riverwalk systems
