Coastal Infrastructure Planning Training Course

Participants can assess the coastal hazards and climate scenarios that should shape project scope.

• Wave climate, tides, currents, sediment transport, and storm surge fundamentals
• Hazard chains identify compound flooding, erosion, overtopping, and infrastructure failure
• Climate scenarios translate sea-level rise into design and operational implications
• Return periods, exceedance probabilities, and design events interpreted correctly
• Exposure mapping identifies people, assets, ecosystems, and economic activities
• Vulnerability assessment distinguishes physical susceptibility from adaptive capacity

Participants can define demand and service gaps using evidence suitable for investment decisions.

• Baseline surveys establish asset condition, utilisation, outages, and maintenance history
• Demand forecasts separate population growth, tourism, trade, and land-use drivers
• Level-of-service indicators specify protection, access, reliability, and response times
• User segmentation distinguishes households, businesses, port operators, and visitors
• Counterfactual analysis describes expected conditions without proposed intervention
• Data-quality assessments document gaps, uncertainty, sources, and validation actions

Participants can screen potential sites against physical, social and delivery constraints.

• GIS suitability mapping combines hazard, elevation, access, land, and ecology layers
• Setback lines and coastal-zone plans tested against proposed asset footprints
• Bathymetric, topographic, geotechnical, and hydrological surveys scoped proportionately
• Utility corridors, navigation channels, and evacuation routes mapped early
• Site-access constraints identify construction logistics, staging, and material supply issues
• Spatial alternatives record excluded locations and defensible screening reasons

Participants can develop and compare feasible structural, nature-based and hybrid options.

• Breakwaters, groynes, seawalls, revetments, and raised assets matched to functions
• Mangroves, dunes, wetlands, and reefs assessed as protective infrastructure
• Hybrid options combine engineered structures with ecosystem restoration measures
• Multi-criteria analysis compares cost, performance, land, safeguards, and maintainability
• Design life, adaptability, and failure consequences tested under climate scenarios
• Preferred-option rationale records trade-offs and residual risks transparently

Participants can identify safeguard requirements and incorporate them into project preparation.

• Environmental and social screening identifies material impacts and assessment requirements
• Mitigation hierarchy applies avoid, minimise, restore, and offset decisions
• Biodiversity critical-habitat risks assessed before selecting coastal protection alignments
• Resettlement risks identify land acquisition, livelihood, and access impacts
• Stakeholder engagement plans define disclosure methods, timing, and grievance channels
• Environmental and social management plans assign actions, budgets, and responsibilities

Participants can assess land, tenure and institutional issues that affect project viability.

• Land-tenure mapping identifies public parcels, private rights, leases, and customary claims
• Easements and wayleaves secure access for drainage, utilities, and maintenance
• Foreshore ownership rules tested against reclamation and shoreline protection proposals
• Institutional mapping clarifies owner, regulator, operator, funder, and approver roles
• Interagency agreements define data sharing, permits, and asset handover responsibilities
• Approval pathways sequence planning, environmental, maritime, and budget authorisations

Participants can design stakeholder engagement that supports informed and legitimate project decisions.

• Stakeholder mapping ranks influence, interests, impacts, and engagement priorities
• Power-interest grids identify groups requiring early consultation and formal agreements
• Consultation records distinguish information sharing, feedback, negotiation, and consent
• Risk communication explains uncertainty, residual risk, and service limitations clearly
• Benefit-sharing measures address access, livelihoods, local employment, and amenities
• Grievance mechanisms set intake routes, response standards, escalation, and reporting

Participants can determine whether a PPP is suitable and identify an appropriate delivery model.

• PPP screening tests service measurability, revenue potential, and risk-transfer feasibility
• Traditional procurement, management contracts, concessions, and availability PPPs compared
• Output specifications define required service without prescribing unnecessary design solutions
• Market sounding tests bidder appetite, capability, financing interest, and constraints
• Public-sector comparator establishes a baseline for delivery-model assessment
• PPP suitability memorandum records rationale, conditions, and next-stage evidence needs

Participants can develop credible payment mechanisms and commercial structures for coastal assets.

• User-charge analysis tests willingness to pay, collection cost, and equity effects
• Availability payments link deductions to measurable asset and service performance
• Tariff structures distinguish fixed charges, usage fees, and seasonal pricing
• Land-value capture assesses betterment levies, leases, and development contributions
• Viability-gap funding identifies justified public support and disbursement triggers
• Revenue waterfalls prioritise operating costs, reserves, debt service, and distributions

Participants can estimate lifecycle cost drivers and document assumptions for financial analysis.

• Capital-cost breakdown structures separate enabling works, civil works, and equipment
• Quantity-based estimates apply unit rates, contingencies, escalation, and taxes
• Operating-cost models include staffing, energy, inspections, dredging, and repairs
• Lifecycle cost analysis compares replacement cycles, maintenance regimes, and residual value
• Contingency allowances reflect design maturity, ground conditions, and market volatility
• Cost-estimate bases document prices, dates, exclusions, and confidence ranges

Participants can construct and review core financial-model assumptions for a coastal project.

• Sources-and-uses schedules reconcile capital costs with committed funding sources
• Debt sizing uses debt-service coverage ratio and lender reserve assumptions
• Cash-flow models forecast construction drawdowns, operations, financing, and taxes
• Weighted average cost of capital reflects debt, equity, grants, and risk
• Sensitivity analysis tests demand, costs, delays, inflation, and refinancing assumptions
• Financial-model audit checks formulas, sign conventions, links, and scenario controls

Participants can allocate material project risks to parties able to manage them effectively.

• Risk registers describe cause, event, consequence, owner, and treatment actions
• PPP risk matrices allocate design, construction, demand, and force-majeure risks
• Climate risks distinguish insurable events from adaptation and residual risks
• Risk workshops test allocation against control, pricing, and contractual enforceability
• Monte Carlo simulation estimates cost and schedule uncertainty distributions
• Risk-adjusted contingencies link quantified exposure to funding and decision thresholds

Participants can test whether a proposed coastal project is affordable and provides value for money.

• Affordability analysis compares annual commitments with budget ceilings and funding reliability
• Value-for-money analysis compares whole-life costs, risk transfer, and service outcomes
• Fiscal-commitment registers capture guarantees, termination payments, and contingent liabilities
• Discounted cash-flow analysis calculates net present cost under delivery alternatives
• Scenario testing assesses tariff support, payment deductions, and refinancing outcomes
• Gateway reviews identify decisions requiring ministerial, treasury, or board approval

Participants can prepare a procurement strategy and identify essential contract provisions.

• Procurement plans set market approach, timetable, governance, and evaluation stages
• Prequalification criteria test technical capability, financial capacity, and relevant experience
• Bid evaluation matrices weight quality, price, financing, and resilience commitments
• FIDIC contract forms distinguish design responsibility, payment, and claims processes
• Performance specifications define availability, response times, inspection, and maintenance standards
• Contract clauses address change control, step-in rights, termination, and disputes

Participants can integrate operational resilience, insurance and emergency requirements into project plans.

• Resilience standards define tolerable downtime, recovery targets, and critical functions
• Business continuity plans address warnings, shutdowns, evacuation, and service restoration
• Insurance programmes allocate property damage, business interruption, and liability exposures
• Parametric insurance triggers assessed for cyclone, flood, and storm-surge events
• Emergency operating procedures assign command roles, communications, and mutual aid
• Post-disaster reconstruction protocols preserve evidence, funding eligibility, and resilience improvements

Participants can plan delivery controls for complex coastal construction and rehabilitation works.

• Construction sequencing accounts for tidal windows, weather seasons, and marine access
• Interface registers coordinate contractors, utilities, port operations, and local authorities
• Baseline programmes identify critical paths, float, milestones, and approval dependencies
• Change-control procedures assess scope, cost, schedule, and risk implications
• Quality assurance plans define inspection points, test records, and acceptance criteria
• Claims-prevention records maintain notices, contemporaneous evidence, and decision logs

Participants can specify lifecycle asset-management arrangements for completed coastal infrastructure.

• Asset registers capture location, condition, criticality, ownership, and maintenance history
• ISO 55000 principles connect asset value, lifecycle decisions, and governance
• Maintenance strategies distinguish preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency interventions
• Condition assessments prioritise corrosion, scour, settlement, erosion, and structural defects
• Key performance indicators track availability, response, safety, condition, and expenditure
• Handback requirements define residual life, inspections, records, and remediation obligations

Participants can establish governance and assurance arrangements from preparation through operations.

• Project governance structures define sponsor, steering committee, and accountable executive roles
• RACI matrices assign decision rights, approvals, consultation, and reporting duties
• Stage-gate assurance tests readiness before feasibility, procurement, contract award, and operations
• Benefits-realisation plans track service outcomes, resilience gains, and economic effects
• Monitoring frameworks specify indicators, baselines, targets, sources, and reporting frequency
• Independent review scopes address technical, financial, environmental, and legal assumptions

Participants can build, review and present a complete coastal infrastructure project dossier with a preferred option, financing case, risk allocation, procurement strategy and implementation plan.

• Project dossier integrates problem definition, evidence base, options, and preferred solution
• Financial case consolidates lifecycle costs, revenues, funding, affordability, and sensitivities
• Risk allocation matrix aligns contractual responsibilities with mitigation and monitoring actions
• Procurement strategy sets delivery model, timetable, evaluation criteria, and approvals
• Implementation roadmap sequences studies, permits, financing, procurement, construction, and operations
• Review panel presentation defends recommendations, assumptions, trade-offs, and decision requests