Type Private Founder Albert Slap | Headquarters Plantation Founded 16 August 2014 | |
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Industry Software as a Service
Cloud computing
Climate modeling
Consulting Founders Albert Slap
Leonard Berry Products See Coastal Risk Consulting products Website coastalriskconsulting.com Motto Climate Ready and Storm Safe | ||
Coastal risk consulting business intro
Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC. (commonly referred to as Coastal Risk or CRC) is an American startup climate adaptation technology and consulting company with headquarters in Plantation, Florida. Coastal Risk provides individuals, small businesses, and local governments with climate impact modeling technology, available as an online software-as-a-service (SaaS), that allows property owners to assess their vulnerability to flooding related to sea level rise and climate change impacts and assists in adaptation and resiliency decision-making.
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Coastal Risk uses data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Flood Insurance Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, high-resolution LIDAR, local tide gauges, and various other geographic information systems to create their cloud-based climate impact risk analyses. However, Coastal Risk's risk scores differ from FEMA flood maps by including sea level rise projections into their flood risk calculations.
The company has partnered with International Business Machines Corporation, Battelle, TetraTech, and Trexin. Some of the company's past clients have included the City of Miami, the Village of Pinecrest, Cleveland Clinic, and Atlantic Broadband.
Coastal Risk has received a number of awards, including two Stevies® at the 14th Annual American Business Awards for "Startup of the Year" and "Tech Startup of the Year," a finalist in the Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge 2015, and named "3rd Coolest Startup" by Broward Palm Beach New Times.
History
Coastal Risk was founded in August 2014 by former environmental attorney and law professor Albert Slap and former Florida Atlantic University climate scientist and Director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies Leonard Berry. Over the years, Slap used America's environmental laws to protect public health and the environment by fighting water and air pollution, toxic waste dumping, and by forcing local governments to replace aging and polluting sewer infrastructure. His citizen suits against the City of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Miami-Dade County brought billions of dollars of investment in wastewater treatment plants and tens of thousands of new construction jobs in those cities. Mr. Slap was senior counsel to Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper in the first lawsuit in the nation to force local government to make critical public infrastructure climate ready and storm safe. Co-founder Dr. Berry was a lead author on the United States 3rd National Climate Assessment in 2015. Other key members of the Coastal Risk scientific team include University of Miami professor and lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Brian Soden, and FAU geoscientist Keren Bolter.