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MARINA PLANNING & DESIGN Designing Charleston City Marina in South Carolina, USA was an early example of ATM’s working with nature policy. Evolving design over the decades by Esteban Biondi The evolution of marina planning has come up a lot in recent conversations with my colleagues and I thought that reflecting on the changes that we have observed over the last three decades, and our personal milestones, could be interesting. This article summarises stories and general reflections by several of my colleagues, each with ten to 33 years of experience working with ATM in marina planning, design and construction. Three decades ago In the 1990s, marina design was driven by applying engineering and environmental technical knowledge, coupled with the facility owner/operator requests. Existing marinas were likely built by owners or contractors, but regulatory requirements were imposing a more professional involvement. This early approach soon evolved into comprehensive analyses for marina planning and design. TOTAL CONTROL OF MARINA at your fingertips See you at Marinas22 Booth 23 - Charleston City Marina After the “storm of the century” destroyed the Beaufort, SC city marina in 1993, “we began to rethink marina layout, planning and design from a boater’s perspective, in addition to regulatory and engineering issues,” recalls Sam Phlegar (with ATM since 1989). This sparked ATM’s holistic approach to marina design. Not long after, ATM was retained to assist in preparing a redevelopment Photo: ATM plan for what later became Charleston City Marina. Robert Semmes (with ATM since 1988) recalls, “after we assisted our clients with their successful proposal for a public/private partnership, we had to determine the appropriate replacement slip mix for the new and emerging market, and they needed a financial study to help secure bank financing.” ATM then started formalising its marina market studies and implemented its marina financial models. The old marina was completely silted in due to concrete wave panel walls. The first phase of the project removed some walls to restore natural tidal currents and located slips out in deeper, naturally flushed water to minimise dredging. This is an early example of what we now call engineering (or working) with nature. Years later, a similar solution was implemented for the Fernandina Harbor Marina in Florida, when redeveloped after damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in 2016. “We completed studies in 1996 that were partially implemented in 2001, but we were finally able to align all of the docks and boats with the currents in the posthurricane rebuild,” recalls Semmes. When the right conditions are in place, we have seen that reconstruction allows for marinas to “bounce forward”, not only by fixing the physical defects of old facilities, but also by accommodating to new market conditions and improving resilience. The new century After pioneering master developed projects in the 1960s, such as Harbor Town Yacht Basin in Hilton Head (USA) and Port Grimaud in Provence marinamanagementsoftwaresolutions IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE TO CREATE ADDED VALUE IN YOUR LANGUAGE Visit our website www.marina-master.com www.marinaworld.com – January/February 2022 37

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