Project: Bio-Tile: Performance-Based Infrastructure

This project is searching for a solution to protect coastal areas from the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, extensive coastal erosion, and depopulation of marine species. The Bio-Tiles project is a performance-based hybrid landscape infrastructure that will collect sediment, filter stormwater runoff, reduce coastal surface temperature, and promote biodiversity in addition to preventing coastal erosion. The project is a nature-based approach for designing the bio-tiles, a protective modular tile system to create resilient shorelines using digital technology, sustainable material, and innovative manufacturing techniques.

Keywords

Performance-based infrastructure, hybrid landscape, biodiversity, nature-based 

Credits

Project Lead: Sara Pezeshk - Doctoral Project 

Acknowledgments

FIU-NSF| Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)

Year

2018-2022