Projects
Understanding how water moves, behaves and influences communities and industries across the globe.
Water is becoming scarcer in many places and increasingly volatile in others. Building sustainable communities, industries and infrastructure is becoming more challenging. Our wide range of projects highlights our innovation, our creativity, and our focus on finding solutions that rise to that challenge and positively impact our clients and the communities they serve.
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Understanding shallow flows for effective road drainage
Effective drainage of roads and highways is crucial for both traffic safety and the long-term durability of the pavement. This, in turn, supports the overall resilience and sustainability of the road infrastructure. HR Wallingford developed a new way to assess the capacity of slot drains used along
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RAIN: Innovative approaches to flood resilience
With climate change predicted to bring wetter, stormier weather to the UK, more communities will be at risk of flooding. Identifying properties at risk in these communities and helping residents adapt to the impacts of climate change presents a huge challenge for society, particularly in areas where
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Sapphire: using AI to improve river and bathing water quality
As one of the finalists for the Manchester Prize, our goal is to develop an AI tool to help alleviate water pollution stemming from storm overflows, agriculture, and urban areas.
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Sizewell C cooling water system
The new nuclear plant at Sizewell C, East Suffolk, has a key role to play in securing a low carbon future for the UK. It will power 6 million homes using two new generation European Pressurised Reactors. Our guidance has helped to optimise the design of the plant’s critical cooling water system.
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Scour protection for supersized monopiles at Coastal Virginia
We designed the innovative scour protection for the foundations at Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, which will last for decades and withstand hurricane force conditions.
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Examining the marine impact of offshore wind growth
We are part of a consortium conducting novel research to support offshore wind to expand in a sustainable way. Data collected from tests with Bangor University in our physical modelling hall will be combined with findings by the other ECOWind-ACCELERATE project partners to assess how current and
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Greening coastal infrastructure
We are leading the development of new CIRIA guidance to explore how typical hard engineered coastal assets can be adapted to boost biodiversity and enhance ecosystems in the marine environment. Greening coastal infrastructure through eco-engineering aims to show the value and impact of eco
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