Join GZA at the ASBPA Centennial Conference, October 5th-8th 2026

GZA will be presenting at the 2026 ASBPA National Coastal Conference, "Celebrating 100 Years of Shore and Beach Preservation," to be held October 5-8, 2026, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In addition, a GZA-designed living shoreline project has been recognized with ASBPA's prestigious Best Restored Shore Award (BRS Award), highlighting the firm's leadership in coastal resilience, ecological restoration, and coastal engineering for the Hepburn Family Preserve Living Shoreline in Old Saybrook, CT. 

The selected conference presentations and award-winning project demonstrate GZA's multidisciplinary expertise in shoreline stabilization, climate adaptation, numerical modeling, habitat enhancement, and nature-based coastal solutions across the Northeast and Midwest. 
 

• Wayne Cobleigh will accept the BRS Award on behalf of GZA’s clients, Borough of Fenwick and the Lynde Point Land Trust, at the Best Restored Beach and Best Restored Shore awards ceremony  on Tuesday, October 6 at12:15pm during the plenary session. Wayne will also present  a case study of the Hepburn project design, construction and monitoring  with four other ASBPA awardees at the dedicated session for the award-winning  beach and shore restoration projects on Wednesday, October 7 between 8:00-9:20 am.
   
• In July 2019, a coastal town in Massachusetts experienced the first of two major slope failure incidents that threatened both private residences and the town’s prized beaches. In “Coastal Bank Failure and Restoration Case Study”, presented by GZA’s Bin Wang, learn how the failure mechanism was determined and how the bank can be restored.
   
• Join Mike Gardner in discussion of his poster “Corn Neck Road (Block Island) Resilience Strategy and Dune Restoration.” The poster will highlight the nature-based strategies explored in the efforts to bolster the long-term resilience of a barrier beach and salt marsh system protecting public facilities and key roadways.
   
• In the poster “Rocks and Rootwads for Roe: Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport and Currents for a Fish Spawning Reef Habitat in Green Bay, Wisconsin”, GZA’s Eamon Whitmore presents on computer modeling and research that assisted in the design of a to-be-built habitat for walleye and smallmouth bass.