ENVIRONMENTAL  SCIENCE  &  ENERGY,  INC.

Construction  Defects,  Seismic  Hazards,  &  Structural  Integrity  Inspection

 

YOUR SOLUTION FOR GREENER AND SAFER STRUCTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURES

(520) 625-8346

 

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CLIMATIC AND OTHER DATA;  PRECISE, PINPOINT  DATA  INTERPOLATION  TO SPECIFIC LOCATIONS;  ANALYSIS;  HIGH RESOLUTION  DATA  MAPPING

 

CONSTRUCTION  DEFECTS AND SEISMIC & LANDSLIDE  HAZARDS  ANALYSIS,  STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY INSPECTION & REINFORCEMENT, REQUIRED ANNUAL RAILROAD BRIDGE INSPECTION

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,  GLOBAL WARMING,  SCIENTIFIC  INSTRUMENTS,  AND  WARNING SYSTEMS

 

FORENSIC DISCOVERY  AND  EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY

 

METEOROLOGY / WEATHER  FORECASTS,  SEASONAL  WEATHER  OUTLOOKS, ALERTS,  CERTIFIED  HAZMAT  TRAINING, CERTIFIED  WEATHER  OBSERVERS

 

RENEWABLE  ENERGY  GENERATION:  WAVE,  TIDAL,  WIND,  SOLAR,  OTHER

 

RESEARCH  &  DEVELOPMENT,  STUDIES, PUBLIC LECTURES,  OTHER  SERVICES

 

      

 

 

Breakwaters, Seawalls, Jetties, Groins, Piers, Wharfs, & Docks: Structural Integrity Inspection for Construction Defects and Seismic Hazards Determinations

plus  Reinforcement,  Restoration,  and  Reconstruction Services by

Civil Engineers and Other Scientists and Engineers

 

Charles B. Pyke, Ph.D., President, CEO, and Principal Scientist of Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., offers Beach Erosion Control and Mitigation Studies, as well as Inspection, Investigation, Preservation, and Protection, plus referrals for recommended Replenishment and Restoration services for Beaches, Shorelines, Waterfronts, Ports, Harbors, Marinas, Lagoons, Marshlands, Coastal Waterways, Wetlands, and Coral Reefs.  [Many of the services may apply to the earthquake-damaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti and to Concepciόn and other Chile ports damaged by the earthquake and/or tsunami..]   These include, but are not limited to, the items listed below.  

  • Breakwaters, jetties, and groins:  construction, enhancement, expansion, reinforcement, reconstruction, refurbishment, enlargement (as needed), and restoration services; cleanup of oil spills.

  • Breakwaters, jetties, and groins:  studies, including damages to breakwaters, jetties, and groins from natural and human activities;  possible adverse effects of breakwaters and jetties on beaches, shorelines, waterfronts, harbors, and coastal waterways.

  • Coastal engineering studies and services of many types. 

  • Coastal waterways:  investigation, environmental analysis, dredging, protection, refurbishment, and restoration services.

  • Construction defects determination, foundation failure determination, seismic hazards determination, and seismic safety analysis, plus structural integrity inspection and investigation of structural damage on breakwaters, jetties, groins, and other coastal structures.  Determination of the need for repair, refurbishment, and reconstruction of these structures.

  • Construction defect remedies, refurbishment, reinforcement,  and reconstruction for breakwaters, jetties, groins, and other structures. 

  • Construction defect remedies, refurbishment, reinforcement, and reconstruction for piers, wharfs, docks, seawalls, tidal energy dams, and other structures. 

  • Coral reef preservation, protection and restoration services.

  • Dredging of harbors, marinas, bays, channels, and coastal waterways.

  • Heavy river runoff into estuaries and harbors -  damages and siltation:  research, studies, and restoration services.

  • Hurricanes:  damages to breakwaters, docks, groins, jetties, piers, seawalls, and wharfs.

  • Hurricanes:   protection, restoration, and reconstruction services.

  • Hurricanes:  research and studies.

  • Inspections of beaches, ports, harbors, lagoons, marinas, piers, wharfs, docks, seawalls, breakwaters, jetties, groins, wetlands, coral reefs, and bridges over bays and waterways:  construction defects, aging and deterioration, corrosion, erosion, foundation failure, seismic safety, and need for repair or restoration.

  • Jetties:  construction, inspection, seismic safety evaluation, analysis of construction defects, investigation of historical structural damage.

  • Jetties:  repair, refurbishment, reinforcement, enlargement (as needed), restoration, removal, or replacement.

  • Kelp and seaweed:  research and studies; removal where needed.

  • Lagoons:  construction, protection, preservation, and restorations services.

  • Ocean wave energy development and generation.**

  • Offshore oil rigs:  inspection, analysis of construction defects, damage and potential damage from high seas, seismic safety analysis; repair, refurbishment, and restoration.

  • Piers, wharfs, and docks:  analysis of construction defects, damage, and wear.

  • Piers, wharfs, and docks:  structural integrity inspection, seismic safety inspection, investigation of any structural damages, plus referrals for repair, refurbishment, reinforcement, renovation, strengthening, and reconstruction.

  • Piers, wharfs, and docks:  construction of new facilities.

  • Piers, wharfs, and docks:  site selection, design, and environmental studies.

  • Ports: siltation, sandbars, debris from damaged boats, and destruction of wharfs and docks:  inspection, investigation of any structural damages, seismic safety analysis, protection, repair, renovation, restoration, and reconstruction. 

  • Property line / /boundary surveys and dispute resolution.

  • Reefs, natural and artificial:  inspection, construction, protection, reconstruction, restoration, or removal services.*

  • Sandbars:  cleanup of oil spills.

  • Sandbars:  removal or revamping services.

  • Seawalls:  structural integrity inspection, seismic safety inspection, investigation of any structural damages, referrals for repair, refurbishment, reinforcement, renovation, reconstruction, strengthening, enlargement (as needed), and restoration services.

  • Seawalls:  construction of new seawalls, plus enhancement and expansion of existing facilities.

  • Seawalls:  site selection, design, and environmental studies. 

  • Seawalls:  studies, including damages to seawalls from natural and human activities;  possible adverse effects of seawalls on beaches, shorelines, and waterfronts. 

  • Shoreline  protection, preservation, restoration, and reconstruction.

  • Storm surges and high waves:  studies of beach erosion, shoreline, harbor, marina, and wetlands damage potential, risks to life.

  • Tidal energy development and generation.*

  • Tsunamis:  investigation of damages to breakwaters, docks, groins, jetties, piers, seawalls, wharfs, other coastal structures, and coral reefs.

  • Tsunamis:  protection from tsunamis; restoration and reconstruction services from tsunami damage.

  • Tsunamis:  research, modeling, and risk assessment. 

  • Tsunami warning systems:  design and installation.

  • Waterfront  protection, preservation, restoration, and reconstruction.

  • Wave energy development and generation.**

  • Wetlands:  environmental research and studies. 

  • Wetlands: inspection, environmental investigation, preservation, protection, refurbishment, and restoration services.

  • Wildlife refuges and other wildlife habitats:  environmental research and studies. 

  • Wildlife refuges and other wildlife habitats: inspection, environmental investigation, preservation, protection, refurbishment, and restoration services.

* Construction of a small dam near the far end of a bay, harbor, lagoon, fjord, estuary, or coastal waterway gravitationally connected to the ocean, creating a small artificial tidal basin that becomes sealed off from the ocean, except for a small opening in the dam.  Placement of a reversible hydroelectric generator in the opening of the dam to generate electricity from the flow of water through the dam -- into the basin on the rising tide and out of the basin on the falling tide.  The tidal basins must be constructed at locations that will not disturb natural fish or sea life habitats.   The generators must be screened from the ocean to prevent fish, seaweed, and other solid matter from entering the generators.  The screens must be cleaned frequently (preferably by energy-efficient automatic scrubbers). 

In some settings, multiple generators in a single dam may be the most efficient arrangement.

At locations where boats pass between the tidal basin and the open sea, gates in the dam can be constructed so that they can be opened during the hours straddling low and high tides, when ocean level changes are minimal.  The gates do not have to be water-tight.  Small leaks through the gates will not materially affect the energy generation of the facility. 

Generators can also be placed in locations, such as certain estuaries, where there is a natural tidal current of significance, including tidal bores and tidal waves (a term not to be confused with tsunamis, which are not tidal in origin). 

** Miniature electric generators constructed in the surf zone to respond to the rapidly rising and falling height of the water surface resulting from ocean waves (even Great Lakes waves) approaching the beach or cliff.  The fluctuations can be amplified by the construction of V-shaped flanks, including a sloping surface under water, that focus the energy into a narrow and shallow collector, containing the generator.  Like with the tidal energy generators, a fish and seaweed screen will likely be necessary around the generator. 

Multiple wave generators, separated by a few tens of meters, along a given ocean front, should be feasible.

 

NOTE: Most inspection, evaluation, construction defects determination, seismic hazards determination, structural analysis, foundation failure analysis, seismic safety analysis, and/or other inspection-related services - plus construction, building, demolition, removal, repair, reinforcement, retrofit, overhaul, restoration, reconstruction, rebuilding, enlargement, and/or other building-related construction and remedial services - are referred to, and administered by, other environmental or engineering companies.  Clients are to deal directly and entirely with said referred environmental and/or engineering company or companies for any and all said referred services.  

Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. is not directly involved with any of said referred services. Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. does not manage, supervise, oversee, coordinate, or facilitate any of said referred services.  Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. hereby declares that our corporation is not, and cannot be held, legally responsible for any of said referred services and that our corporation assumes no liability at any time - past, present, or future - for any  projects, cases, jobs, work, tasks, or other services totally referred to other companies or agencies.

This caveat does not apply to most services offered directly by Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., including our data services, environmental planning and assessment, forensic expert and testimony services, weather forecasting, certified weather observers, certified hazardous materials training, global warming modeling,  research and studies, public lectures, scientific software, and scientific documentaries, plus most scientific instrumentation and some of our renewable energy development (not requiring the installation of large hardware items, which are referred to other companies - in which case this caveat does apply). 

 

For more information about these services and other programs:

Telephone:    Environmental Science & Energy, Inc.:  (520) 625-8346,

       cellular (520) 310-9931 or (775) 742-5376.  Alternate (520) 625-8316.

FAX:  Call (520) 625-8346 to obtain fax number.

e-mail:  Call (520) 625-8316 to obtain e-mail address.

Mailing address for Dr. Charles B. Pyke, President & CEO: 

   P. O. Box 1747, Green Valley, AZ  85622-1747

Mailing address for Timothy E. Wright, Chairman of the Board: 

   1222 West, 630 South, Logan, UT  84321.

Billing and payment address:

   P. O. Box 292760, Phelan, CA  92329-2760.

 

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