Environmental Engineering

Throughout Martec’s 30-year involvement in Atlantic Canada’s offshore development, we have successfully delivered on a wide spectrum of domestic and international ocean and coastal engineering projects. Working with government, the offshore industry and other industrial clients, Martec has lead the way in:

• The determination of standard and extreme design criteria for marine operations and structures, including ships, pipelines, offshore structures, harbours and coastal works.
• Field investigations and numerical modeling of physical/environmental processes in the ocean coastal region, with more than 25 years experience on the Scotian Shelf.
• Sediment transport including prediction, prevention and remediation of erosion and scour around bottom-fixed structures and pipelines.
• Numerical modeling of dispersion of produced water, mud and cuttings from offshore platforms.
• Oil/Condensate slick trajectory modeling and oil/condensate contingency plans.
• Numerical modeling of coastal oceanographic processes and predictive tools for dredging and submarine pipeline installation.

Drawing on the experience of specialized teams in the fields of hydrodynamics, oceanography, coastal and ocean engineering and computer science, Martec specializes in the stringent and involved environmental assessment and review process associated with activities in the marine environment including:

Numerical modeling in the Ocean Environment
Nearshore and offshore wave hindcasting, detailed wave modeling by refraction, diffraction and shoaling processes, cohesive and non-cohesive sediment transport modeling, coastal and fluvial erosion modeling.

Coastal Zone Management
Field investigations, coastal development assessments, impact of structures on natural coastal processes, siltation and erosion, shore protection and beach renurishment, mapping and database storage of shoreline and coastal changes.

Marine Structures
Design and planning of coastal structures, wharves, revetments, groins, breakwaters, sea walls and jetties, computer aided design and analysis, structural integrity, the establishment of design criteria based upon average and extreme events, and tropical storm and hurricane protection.

Oceanographic
Environmental assessments, marine data cataloguing and image processing, software development and implementation, design and implementation of marine monitoring programs including remote sensing of the ocean and coastal zone, the monitoring of flooding and erosion processes, and the study of sea-ice and its interaction with ship structures and coastal processes.