Stantec, together with joint venture partner Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson (JMT), has been awarded a US$150 million design contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, for coastal storm risk management work on the Charleston peninsula in South Carolina.
The design assignment sits inside a broader construction program that Stantec puts at US$1.2 billion in total value. The joint venture's scope covers more than eight miles of coastal infrastructure along Charleston's waterfront.
According to the release, the designs will include storm surge barriers, floodwalls and levees, pump stations, and gate structures handling pedestrian, vehicle and rail crossings as well as tidal flow. Nature-based elements such as living shorelines and oyster reefs are also part of the plan.
Stantec did not give a schedule for the design work, nor a breakdown of how the US$150 million is split between the two joint venture partners or how it will be recognised across reporting periods. The company also did not state how much of the contract value is firm versus contingent on later task orders, a common structure in federal engineering awards.
Charleston's peninsula has more than 40,000 full-time residents and a concentration of historic landmarks. The company describes the project as a multi-purpose storm surge defence system intended to reduce risk to people and infrastructure.
Chris Williams, senior vice president for Stantec's US Federal Program, said the firm's water, infrastructure and environmental teams would work together on the design. Chris Mack, JMT's director of Resilience and Coastal Solutions, credited the City of Charleston with years of preparatory resilience work ahead of the federal award.
Stantec pointed to earlier federal coastal work as precedent. The firm was designer of record for three storm drainage pump stations, floodwalls, levees and gates on the Corps' Permanent Canal Closures and Pumps Project in New Orleans. It also worked with the New York City Economic Development Corporation on waterfront designs at the Battery, and provided engineering and design services for a 26.7-mile levee and floodwall system near Galveston, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey.
Stantec frames the Charleston award as strengthening its position for further work with the Corps and regional clients in large coastal markets. That is the company's own characterisation rather than a stated order backlog.
The company's forward-looking statement notes the usual caveat that projects of this kind can be delayed, suspended, cancelled or terminated.
Stantec trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol STN. Second quarter 2026 results are scheduled for August 12, 2026, after market close.
Source: GlobeNewswire
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