ICE Coastal Management Conference 2025: Exploring the future of our coastlines
We have a strong JBA presence at this year’s ICE Coastal Management Conference 2025, with presentations from Technical Director Alec Dane and Senior Coastal Engineer Dr Davide Banfi. Read on to find out more about our attendance and the two publications being presented.
Bringing engineers, contractors, consultants, asset owners and academics together to discuss and consider the future of coastal and maritime engineering.
The themes covered during this year's conference include:
- Exploring how climate change requires a new approach to coastal management
- Sharing best practice and progress from innovative projects around the globe
- Defining how the sector will develop to meet the future needs of communities
- Utilising finance to achieve better outcomes
- Inspiring the next generation and establishing a climate for change
From insight to impact: 30 years of innovation
For 30 years, we have been striving to share our knowledge, research and most innovative projects. From speaking at the biggest industry conferences to contributing to research papers, we seek to drive change across the industry.
See below for an overview of the two research papers being presented at the conference.
JBA contributions to the conference
Tuesday 16th September - 14:00-15:00 - Session 3C: 'Shingle beach defence assets: standard of protection and wave overtopping.' Dr Davide Banfi.
JBA colleagues Davide Banfi, Johan Skanberg-Tippen and Graham Kenn, in collaboration with the team from the University of Plymouth – Furkan Demir, Alison Raby, Dave Simmonds and Martyn Hann – contributed to this paper, which presents the reasoning behind the development of the PhD study undertaken by Furkan Demir. This research project is experimentally and numerically investigating the wave-shingle beach-splash wall interactions. The ultimate objective of this project is to develop wave overtopping and wave force formulations that can be used in design applications.
Tuesday 16th September - 16:00-17:00 - Session 4A: 'Embracing uncertainty in the future management of gravel barrier beaches through use of adaptation pathways: a case study at Hurst Spit.' Alec Dane
This paper explores the use of adaptation pathways to to support flexible, robust, and responsive decision-making in a highly uncertain and changing environment at Hurst Spit in the New Forest. This paper explores how uncertainty was addressed through expert panel input and storyline modelling, and how adaptation pathways were used to manage future risks.
You can find out more about the conference here.
