As development activities radically alter coastlines across the Middle East and China, there is an urgent need for guidelines acquainting developers and government organizations with sound shoreline management. In collaboration with DHI, a world leader in developing the world’s coastlines, OHK’s Ahmed Hassan has co-authored a state-of-the-art manuscript on Shoreline Management Guidelines, first published in English in 2001 and recently updated in Arabic.

In a year-long collaboration, OHK’s founder Ahmed Hassan and DHI’s Global Chief Engineer Karsten Mangor made the publication timely by addressing the types of projects that are shaping places like Dubai, China, and Egypt’s Red Sea. The guidelines explain in ordinary, comprehensible language the terminology and mechanisms of shoreline management and explore mitigation of impacts of marine and coastal projects. A launch event of the publication was hosted on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, where some 3,000 km of pristine coastline are undergoing massive, man-made change. Consulting engineers, planners, landscape architects, decision makers, NGOs, land owners, and investors took part in the event. Currently, many of the largest coastline developments in the world like the Palm Tree in Dubai are applying the guidelines to address post-construction challenges.

Contact us to obtain information on Shoreline Management Guidelines in English or Arabic.