Royal Engineers and Consultants is a small company headquartered in New Orleans that operates in communities along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana, Alabama, and Texas. The company works in the areas of civil engineering, construction and construction management, coastal and environmental engineering, and project management.
In designing marsh restoration projects, such as a project in the northern shoreline of Lake Merchant in Louisiana, engineers employed by Royal have considered long-term sea-level rise rates and account for these rates in choosing ecosystem management practices that support marine life and natural vegetation.
In Cameron Parish, Royal led and coordinated the workflow for a large Hurricane Rita reconstruction program consisting of approximately 60 individual projects. Royal helped the parish select and prioritize projects based on a set of sustainability-related criteria and incorporated retrofits to protect against future flood and storm damage.
Royal Engineers performed geotechnical inspections of New Orleans city buildings that were damaged during Hurricane Katrina to determine whether they were structurally safe enough to rebuild. Buildings for the city’s Office of Recovery Management were then rebuilt to be more likely to withstand future hurricanes. In the rebuilding process, the company utilized green building materials and technologies when possible.