ABSTRACT
The coastal cliffs erosion is a natural process that can lead to unstable occurrences and consequently high risk to the beach users. This paper describes the main solutions adopted at Peneco Beach, Algarve, Portugal aimed to mitigate the risk associated with space usage and access to the beach. Simultaneously, severe structural pathologies were also observed at the beach access stairs determining risk to users and therefore stabilization works were needed. The main goal was to develop solutions that could mitigate the users’ risk while being conscious about environmental and aesthetics constrains as well as equipment accessibility restrains. The cliff stabilization solution used pigmented reinforced shotcrete combined with steel rockbolts, while the access stair was rebuilt using reinforced concrete and vertical rockbolts as foundation elements.
