Building a Sea Wall in Daytona Beach, Florida

Hi. This is Parker Osborne, Osborne Construction Design, and we design, build, and install seawalls. So before Ian and Nicole, they had roughly a hundred and ten feet worth of dune here. After the storms came through. As you can see, they lost all of that up to the pool area. So we're looking at around two hundred and seventy four feet, and we use a combination wall of CoastArmor and Redi-Rock. The CoastArmor made constructability easier and faster. Well, there's a lot of benefits of water jetting. One is you don't have any of the seismic activity transferring to the buildings, and we don't have to worry about any pool cracking, deck cracking, anything like that outside of there. And, also, it's a little easier on the installation. So below the cap height, we've got about twenty one feet down of Coast Armor. The posts and the corners and all that are an h pile, essentially. And we put sheeting in between them with our texture. You can't see the texture here. It's all covered by the dune again. And then the Redi-Rock goes right behind that to finish up the rest of the wall height. So on the south side with the old existing wall, we're able to tie in. There's a return on the south side. So we were able to tie in and utilize those existing returns. They were in excellent shape. They vary for the last however many years. Utilizing the forty fives that were made, we were able to kinda create, contours that eliminated the storm swirl in the corners where it would normally happen with a ninety degree corner. So the the CoastArmor cap has a rebar cage. It's all fiberglass, and the anchors to the back will tie into that, And that's all tied into our posted piles for the coast armor, and that all goes down approximately twenty one feet. That's the scour line. So if you use a different product, you would definitely be looking at using grid work. And using grids was not an option with the hot tub being so close and all the pool piping and all that stuff. It was not an option to have grids in the back. And so this was a perfect solution for this case. So logistics on this project were tricky, and we trucked in all of the EcoStarboard. And then we loaded it into Oshkosh off road semis and trailers and transported them down the beach ramp and then up to the job site. It took us roughly four months to clear everything from start to finish, demo, everything involved. I would highly recommend Shumont to give them a call or all your Coast Armor at Redi-Rock needs. They'll be right there to help you out with your project.

After Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, this Daytona Beach property lost more than 110 feet of protective dune, leaving pools, hardscape, and structures exposed to wave action and erosion. In this video, Parker Osborne of Osborne Construction & Design walks through how his team rebuilt nearly 274 feet of shoreline using a combined Coast Armor and Redi-Rock system, specially engineered for constructibility, durability, and tight coastal installation constraints.

Parker explains how Coast Armor made installation faster and safer through water jetting, eliminating vibration transfer that could have damaged nearby pools, decks, and structures. Below the cap height, the Coast Armor system extends to the scour line, approximately 21 feet below ground level. Redi-Rock retaining wall blocks were installed behind to complete the wall height and deliver the finished, engineered solution. Due to the site’s proximity to a hot tub, pool piping, and existing structures, geogrid reinforcement wasn’t an option. Instead, this combination system allowed the sea wall to perform structurally without tiebacks, making it an ideal solution for constrained coastal sites. Custom contours incorporating 45-degree returns also helped reduce the storm swirl that can occur with typical 90-degree wall returns, improving the structure’s long-term performance at the corners.

The project required complex logistics, including transporting materials down the beach via off-road equipment, and was completed in approximately four months from demolition through final installation. Parker notes that Truemont Materials’ coordination and support kept the project moving despite challenging conditions.

If you use a different product, you would definitely be looking at using grid work, and using grids was not an option with the hot tub being so close… this was the perfect solution for this case.” -Parker Osborn, Owner, Osborn Construction & Design