The growing human population is rapidly increasing its environmental footprint in our oceans. This is in part due to a construction boom in our seas. The construction of marine structures has significant and often detrimental effects on natural habitats and biodiversity in the world's oceans and coastal areas. This is due to their typically smooth and vertical surfaces, which lack the diversity of micro habitats which are naturally found in coastal areas.

Living Seawalls has shown that despite marine construction being a large part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution. Living Seawalls habitat panels provide homes for marine life on largely flat and featureless surfaces. We offer habitat modules that can be pre-fabricated and incorporated into the design of new marine built structures or fitted to existing ones to enhance their ecological value. Monotoring is ongoing and has shown that panels fulfill their intended purpose.