Jackson Civil Engineering’s £14M Langstone FCERM: design notes for coastal engineers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

First reported on New Civil Engineer
30 Second Briefing
Jackson Civil Engineering has secured a £14M contract to deliver a flood and coastal erosion risk management scheme at Langstone in Havant, south Hampshire, for the Environment Agency and local partners. The FCERM works are expected to include new or raised sea walls and reinforced embankments to protect low-lying residential and transport assets along this exposed section of the Solent coastline. For geotechnical and coastal teams, the project will involve foundation design in soft marine deposits, tidal working constraints, and durability detailing for saline conditions.
Technical Brief
- Suffolk-based Jackson Civil Engineering will act as principal contractor, coordinating marine and landside interfaces.
Our Take
Jackson Civil Engineering’s recent wins on the Exceat Bridge replacement in East Sussex and the St Botolph’s Circus remodelling in Colchester indicate it is building a strong pipeline of southern England infrastructure work, which can help it retain specialist coastal and highways teams for the Hampshire FCERM scheme.
With the Hethel spine road project in South Norfolk also under way, Jackson Civil Engineering is now spread across multiple regional authorities, suggesting that delivery sequencing and resource sharing between Norfolk, Sussex and south Hampshire will be critical to maintaining programme certainty on the FCERM contract.
Within our 817 Infrastructure stories, relatively few contract awards combine coastal flood and erosion risk management with explicit sustainability tagging, so this Hampshire FCERM scheme positions Jackson Civil Engineering in a visible niche for climate-resilience work along the UK’s southern coastline.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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