IceBreak Consulting Engineers offers independent and specialised consultancy services in the field of coastal and harbour engineering with special emphasis on the breakwaters, Icelandic-type berm breakwater as well as conventional rubble mound breakwaters protected with armourstone or artificial armour units.
Sigurdur Sigurdarson has over 35 years of experience as a coastal and harbour engineer, both in Iceland as well as internationally, working on breakwater projects in six continents. His main emphasis has been on coastal structures, including breakwaters, revetments and groynes. He has been involved in all aspects from planning, establishment of environmental load and design criteria, design, model testing and armourstone quarry evaluation, through to tendering, construction management, supervision of construction and quarrying, as well as performance monitoring. Through a number of breakwater projects, he has developed and introduced the Icelandic-type berm breakwater.
The development and design of rubble mound breakwaters and revetments has been an important part of Sigurdarson’s work. This has involved armourstone quarry assessment, material specifications, supervision of quarrying, advising contractors in blasting for armourstone, as well as design. Sigurdarson has designed rubble mound breakwaters in over fifty harbours in Iceland and an even higher number of shore protection projects.