d’Escoto is providing Civil Engineering Services for the Chicago Lakeshore Rehabilitation Project. Tasks included:

• Providing dry floodproofing BMPs for flood control, such as permanent floodwalls, permanent flood panels, removable flood panels, and sealing windows and doors.
• Providing wet floodproofing BMPs, such as raising and relocating the mechanicals (e.g. HVAC, furnaces, pumps) from basement to rooftop for both a single-family home and a 10-floor apartment building.
• Making site protection suggestions including breakwater and riprap improvements, building seat and landscape wall, and beach nourishment.
• Preparing cost estimate for each different BMP with detailed cost including material, equipment, labor, and transportation cost.
• Creating fact sheets and BMPs summaries to demonstrate effectiveness, deployability, advantages and disadvantages for 9 different BMPs