Brett McMann serves as a project manager at The Water Institute, leading activities related to CPRA Master Plans, the Louisiana Watershed Initiative, and City of Jacksonville flood studies. He also serves on the East Baton Rouge Parish Engineering Selection Board, the Louisiana Engineering Society Baton Rouge branch board, the Louisiana ASCE COPRI board, and ASCE COPRI’s Orville T. Magoon Sustainable Coasts Award selection committee.

His experience lies in the adaptation planning and design of flood mitigation and ecosystem restoration projects along the Gulf and East Coasts. Notable planning work includes the 2012, 2017, 2023, and 2029 CPRA Master Plans; H&H data repository architecture planning and implementation for the Louisiana Watershed Initiative; compound flood risk assessments in Louisiana and Jacksonville, Florida; and contributions to the Climate Ready South Boston study, Boston Harbor Barrier feasibility study, the Houston GCCPRD coastal study, and coastal feasibility studies in southwest and south-central Louisiana.

His design experience includes leading the coastal engineering and design team for the NRDC Norfolk Ohio Creek Watershed project, Morganza to the Gulf Reach L, and work on the West Bay and Spanish Pass Beneficial Use of Dredged Material (BUDMAT) projects in Louisiana.

Additionally, Brett has experience in the planning and design of levees, beneficial use of dredged material, shoreline armoring, salinity control, barrier island monitoring, marsh creation, coastal ecosystem restoration, avian habitat design guidance, wetlands value assessments, borrow source identification, engineering feasibility and design, cost estimation and cost-benefit analysis, municipal utility replacement, and field condition assessments of utilities.