Design

Effective marine infrastructure begins with a scientifically-backed, engineering-led design process that accounts for both environmental conditions and project-specific goals. A tailored approach ensures that structures not only perform their required function but also contribute to marine habitat restoration and biodiversity enhancement. By incorporating scaled testing equipment, scientifically proven materials, and advanced 3D printing, products are built to the highest standard to fit your project’s requirements and environmental goals.

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Precision-Driven Design for Sustainable Marine Infrastructure

Engineering Marine Solutions for Performance & Biodiversity

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    Engineered for Marine Life

    Every structure we produce is designed with nature-inclusive principles in mind. Textured surfaces, sheltered crevices, and multiple-sized indentations mimic natural habitats, encouraging marine species settlement and biodiversity growth. These features are tailored to reflect local marine environments, ensuring compatibility with species-specific habitat needs.

    Functionality & Longevity

    Whether required for scour protection, artificial reef development, or structural reinforcement, each unit is built for durability, stability, and environmental integration. Designed to remain on the seabed indefinitely, these solutions create long-term marine habitats with no risk of environmental damage should they degrade over time. This ensures that once installed, the ecological benefits continue for generations.

    Real-world Testing

    By incorporating scaled testing equipment, scientifically proven materials, and advanced 3D printing, designs are optimised to withstand localised hydrodynamic forces while fostering rich, thriving marine ecosystems.

Be it scour protection, artificial reef development, or structural reinforcement - each of our products are built for durability, stability, environmental integration and longevity 
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Start-to-finish Turn-Key Process

Working closely with our clients, we’re able to assist with each stage of the project, ensuring it’s carried out to the highest standards possible. Rest assured in knowing it will be driven by innovative technologyscientific expertise, and a commitment to sustainability and increasing biodiversity.

Backed by multiple industry awards and accreditations such as B-CorpISO 900114001 & 45001 – to ensure this highest standard of delivery.

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  • Consultation

    The first phase is to talk things through and gauge your situation, and which of our products is the best solution for it. We would establish the scale of the requirements, location, application and anything else bespoke that may be required for your project.

  • Design

    We then work closely with our in-house science and engineering teams to create tailored designs based on the deployment location and project goals.

    This enables us to deliver a nature-inclusive design to reflect the local marine environment and target the growth of specific species.

  • Manufacturing

    At this stage, we ensure all our products are built as close to the deployment location as possible, using local labour and raw materials where possible.

    Further carbon reductions and cost savings occur through manufacturing “in country” and utilising a combination of our globally transportable mobile production plant and using local raw material suppliers.

  • Permits & Licensing

    We will assist with bid writing right from the tender stage & compliance through to conditions, obtaining permits and licensing for deposits onto the seabed with government bodies.

    We can even take care of stakeholder management with fisheries, government, community groups and governing boards.

  • Transport & Logistics

    Local deployment at your project location ensures that the entire process supports the local economy and follows industry-standard procedures with industry-standard hardware and vessels for added efficiency. We also have our own portfolio of deployment equipment that has been designed by our team from over 30 years of industry experience

  • Monitoring

    Pre & post-deployment, we can deploy multiple monitoring techniques such as eDNA or ROV’s to assess the effectiveness of our subsea protection and artificial reef products. This allows us to track progress, monitor the development of marine life, compared to the baseline and fine tune our solutions for optimal results.

Featured Projects

  • Reducing coastal erosion at Hengistbury Head’s Long Groyne

    BCP Council

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  • Our Intertidal Reef cubes undergo 5-year study to assess increased biodiversity

    Newlyn

    ARC Marine’s Intertidal Reef cubes technology is being demonstrated at Newlyn breakwater as a partial replacement for Rock Armour.

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  • Accelerating Reef creation at UK Aquaculture site in just 12 months

    REFAS

    As part of a UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) funded project, ARC Marine deployed 111 Reef cubes in an innovative scallop farm based in Torbay.…

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  • Enhancing biodiversity with nature-inclusive Reef mat installation for NICE

    NICE

    Four of ARC Marine’s Reef mats were deployed alongside four conventional protective mattresses as part of a trial that looks at Nature Inclusive Design (NID)…

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Support & Guidance

Whether you already have a project in mind or just want to explore possibilities, our team can help.
  • Expert consultation
  • Personalised advice for your specific project
  • No obligation, just an open conversation
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