This one-day course covers the issues of coastal processes, and design methods for coastal structures, including seawalls, breakwaters, vertical walls, piers and jetties. Strong emphasis is placed on understanding the concepts, being familiar with representative parameters and with key prediction methods, so hands-on tutorials are included in the programme.

It will introduce key issues in coastal engineering, vulnerabilities of different coastlines (developed and natural), and the main drivers for flooding/erosion threats. The effects of encounter probability, climate change, wave forecasting, wave transformations and depth-limited breaking will be described and explored further in tutorial exercises. A wide range of coastal structures will be discussed including breakwaters, seawalls and shoreline revetments as well as elevated decks. The key responses covered will be wave overtopping prediction and/or crest level calculation, and armour size determination. Simple methods to estimate wave loads will also be covered.

The course is designed for engineers, specifiers and managers who need to know more about fundamentals of coastal engineering, basic and advanced design aspects of structures such as breakwaters, revetment, walls and jetties, as well as post-graduate researchers.

Registration is now open and there is a discounted early booking fee of  £390.00 (excluding VAT at 20%) available for registrations received on or before 27 September 2013. After 27 September the standard fee of £450.00 (excluding VAT at 20%) will apply. Bookings can be made online at http://events.hrwallingford.co.uk