Beach management manual (second edition) wins award for best poster presentation at the Environment Agency FCRM 10 conference

Beaches play an important role either as the sole barriers to coastal flooding and erosion, or as part of manmade defences. Beach management in the UK has evolved significantly in recent years. Optimal beach management focuses primarily on the daily, even routine, tasks of monitoring, maintaining, repairing, responding to emergencies, and occasionally on designing a scheme.  The first CIRIA Beach management manual was published in 1996. The updated manual, written by leading beach management practitioners, consultants and scientists, is due to be released summer 2010.

To promote the manual, the project consortium presented a poster at the Environment Agency FCRM 10 conference in Telford, 29 June - 01 July 2010.

The poster offered an overview of the project and displayed the content of the manual in form of an advent calendar. Delegates were encouraged to open a ‘window’ which revealed the content of each individual chapter of the manual.  As a result of its innovative and interactive nature, the judges awarded it the "Best Poster" accolade at the conference.
 
On receiving the award, Halcrow's Jonathan Rogers, the poster's designer and lead author on the updated manual, quipped that he "thanked Father Christmas for giving him the inspiration for the poster" and, more pertinently, that he hoped "the manual itself would prove to be as successful in providing practitioners with the tools, references and mechanisms for managing their beaches effectively."
 
For more information about the publication or to pre-order a copy of the Beach management manual (C685) click here.