A Florida contractor, working on Florida water.
For more than four decades, West Palm Beach-based Hedrick Brothers has helped shape Florida's built environment, delivering landmark projects spanning luxury residences, healthcare and educational facilities, multifamily communities, and complex commercial developments.
Through Hedrick Brothers Environmental, the company applies that same approach to the state's ecological challenges.
Two Environmental Challenges
Diatom Lagoon works the lake bed. It addresses the legacy nutrients already sitting in Lake Okeechobee.
Reef Arches works the shoreline. Its honeycomb, flow-through structures attenuate wave energy, recruit
sediment, and provide surface area for oysters and other marine organisms. At Ais Lookout Point in Palm Bay, a 600-foot installation has recorded sediment accretion as high as 16 inches, allowing mangroves to be planted behind the structures and helping turn an eroding shoreline into a developing living ecosystem.
That last number matters here. It is a measured result from a deployed system, monitored and reported. It is how we intend to run the Diatom Lagoon pilot.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
U.S. Patent 11,795,646, "System for Reducing Contaminants in a Body of Water," issued October 24, 2023.
International PCT application filed.
Engineering-led, already in motion
WSP
Lead engineering firm. 138-year operating history, 63,000 professionals worldwide including 15,500 in the US. Twelve active FDEP contracts and a statewide Florida presence. Responsible for overall design, permitting, construction, and monitoring of the pilot program.
Hedrick Brothers Construction
Construction methodology, constructability, cost estimating, and scheduling input.
Diatom Lagoons LLC
Guidance and oversight of the Diatom Lagoons design and construction process.
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Active FDEP Contracts Held by WSP
Regulatory Path Already Underway
- United States Army Corps of Engineers: Section 10/404 Permit
- WSP engaged as lead engineer in response to Florida DEP's ITN 2024016, "Water Quality Treatment to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Okeechobee"