Matt Rivers

Background

About Matt Rivers

A coastal engineer with extensive knowledge of coastal and physical oceanographic processes. Possesses a technical knowledge of coastal defences, coastal flooding, coastal erosion and sediment dynamics along with climate change, and extreme events. Experienced in construction supervision, optioneering, high-level/outline designs and costings, flood risk analysis, wave transformation calculations, coastal defence condition assessments, and business case development through to managing contractors and inputs from large multi-disciplinary teams, and providing GIS (geographic information system) support to flood risk management schemes. Broader roles include preparing tender documents, health and safety risk assessments, risk registers. Previously undertook thorough studies into large wave events and renewable wave resource potential and knowledgeable in the topics of renewable energy resources, environmental impacts, and tsunami hazards. Retains strong IT skills including a high competency in GIS and Matlab as well as having worked with numerical models.