Wallasea Island is one of 12 projects from across the UK to be nominated for a national civil engineering gong.

Wallasea Island Wild Coast, the RSPB’s landscape-scale coastal habitat creation initiative designed by ABPmer, has been nominated for a national civil engineering gong.

In September the project won four honours in the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East of England’s Merit Awards and is now in the running to become the UK’s most popular civil engineering project.

Wallasea Island is one of 12 projects from across the UK to be nominated for a national civil engineering gong. The public have until November 30 to vote for their favourite. The winning project will be announced in January 2017.

To cast your vote for Wallasea Island Wild Coast, visit the ICE website. [voting now closed]

The Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project is the most ambitious and visionary managed realignment scheme in the UK and will, when completed, be almost 800 hectares in size. It combines ecological research and environmental vision with commerce and innovative industrial engineering.

The project involves raising the island’s land levels using materials excavated from separate National Infrastructure Projects. This will return it to levels that were experienced before it was claimed from the sea and will allow the tide to be re-introduced over the island to create a complex mix of new habitats.

Learn more about ABPmer's involvement in Wallasea Island Wild Coast.