The Sanibel Causeway Emergency Restoration project recently received the ASCE Florida Section’s 2024 Project of the Year Award.

Working with FDOT and the contractor joint venture team, H&H provided emergency engineering design services to restore the causeway, which suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Ian in 2022. A combination of structural failures of the existing mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining walls, anchored concrete sheet pile seawalls along the bridge approaches, and large full breaches of the earthen causeway and roadways between the bridges prevented vehicle access to Sanibel Island.

H&H collaborated with the contractor joint venture team, FDOT District 1 and Central Office, and our design partner to identify and understand the causes of the damage, design temporary repairs that could be rapidly constructed to restore service to emergency services and the general public as quickly and safely as practical, that could be implemented in a manner that permitted the construction of economical and durable permanent repairs.

The ASCE Project of the Year Award recognizes outstanding civil engineering achievements in a civil engineering project in the State of Florida.

Congratulations to FDOT and the entire project team.