Our Eco-Engineering Solution:

The Reef Enhancing Breakwater

Protect your beach, strengthen your coastline and create new marine habitat with one integrated solution.

The Reef Enhancing Breakwater, or REB, is a high-performance submerged breakwater installed parallel to the shoreline. It reduces incoming wave energy to fight erosion and protect valuable coastal assets, while its modular ReefBlocks are designed to function as a thriving artificial reef.

By combining coastal protection, biodiversity enhancement and material-efficient engineering, the REB offers resorts and coastal developments a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative to conventional breakwaters.
Protect the shoreline. Restore the reef. Preserve the value of your coast.

How Reefy can help you:

Assessments and Quantification

  • Pre-project assessments and monitoring
  • Technical and ecological design and engineering
  • Ecological impact quantification 

Adding Value with Nature

  • Triple biodiversity at project site.
  • Reduce environmental mitigation costs.
  • Increase permitting potential

Smart Engineering Solutions

  • Save up to 60% in material volumes
  • Reduce  total project costs.
  • Improve spatial and environmental footprints by up to 50%

References

Trusted by the best

Boskalis chose to work with Reefy in the Rotterdam Reef project as we see value in it's double function as environmental breakwater that can both withstand waves and provides habitat for marine life.

Sander Steenbrink - General Manager Research and development at Boskalis

The Reefy living Breakwater has been tested in our experimental facilities, showing stability and wave attenuation under hurricane conditions. We see their potential in the field and are looking forward to future collaboration.

Dr. Marcel van Gent- Full professor of Coastal Structures (TU Delft), Editor-in-Chief Coastal Engineering (Elsevier)

Who we are

Founders

Jaime Ascencio

Coastal Engineer

Using nature as an inspiration, we strive towards changing the environmental impact of coastal infrastructure from a negative to a positive.

Leon Haines

Marine biologist

By restoring natural reef barriers we can keep communities safe in the face of sea level rise whilst maintaining the ecosystem services they rely on.

BlueBiodex

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            Quantify Impact. Unlock Insight. Protect Aquatic Ecosystems.

BlueBlodex brings together satellite imagery, eDNA, water quality, and other environmental data to give you clear insights into the health of aquatic ecosystems – before, during, or after a project. Using a growing set of scientific methods to turn complex data into practical guidance.

Created for teams working where infrastructure meets nature, BlueBiodex helps you measure the impact of man-made developments and demonstrate the benefits of nature-enhancing solutions in aquatic environments.

Backed by Reefy’s technical expertise, it helps you make sense of the data, understand ecosystem change, and plan projects that deliver real ecological value.

What it does:

Ecosystem Health Monitoring

  • Tracks ecosystem health using
    indicators like water quality and
    eDNA, and combines them into an
    index to measure project impact

Insightful Contextualization

  • Puts findings into context to explain
    why ecosystems are changing.

Ecological Baseline Definition

  • Establishes ecological baselines to
    guide project planning.

Impact Measurement & Monitoring

  • Helps you measure, monitor and visualize impact— from the first idea to the
    final report.

Environmental Planning Support

  • Supports planning, permitting, and
    environmental reporting

Resource Optimization Guidance

  • Helps you save resources and
    maximize impact with advice on
    where and how to build better.

Want to learn more and see

BlueBiodex in action?

Check out how we develop state of the art eco-engineering solutions:

Rewilding the ocean to protect the land.

Delft, The Netherlands

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