Imagine your local seaside town is flooding and the beach is being washed into the sea during storms and high tides. What would you do to help stop this from happening? With climate change, these events will become more frequent, so we need ingenious solutions to help protect our communities.

The wave tank is an interactive model of a coastline where you can experiment with different coastal flood defences and learn how smart engineering and sustainable nature-based solutions can help protect coastal areas against flooding.

You can try out the different combinations of structures and decide what you would build. Don't forget to think about your budget, how much the structures cost, how long they will take to build and how much carbon all need to be considered.

Learn how designers and engineers use these ideas in the real world to help protect people and their communities from future flood risk.