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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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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Life Safety Model
The Life Safety Model (LSM) can help with the development of emergency plans for both floods and dams by assessing the risks to people and evacuation times for various scenarios. The LSM represents the behaviour of each individual person, vehicle and building and their interactions with the
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The SuDS Manual update
HR Wallingford's SuDS experts are the lead authors of the latest edition of The SuDS Manual, published by CIRIA in November 2015.
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TE2100: managing flood risk on the Thames Estuary
In order to plan for the future changes in flood risk and the need to upgrade the flood management system, we worked with the Environment Agency on the Thames Estuary 2100 project (TE2100) to develop a plan for managing flood risk on the Thames estuary over the next 100 years.
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FLOODsite: Integrated flood risk analysis and management
The five-year FLOODsite project was the largest ever European Commission (EC) project on floods, involving a team of over 200 researchers from 37 institutions in 13 countries. HR Wallingford was responsible for co-ordinating and managing the overall project, as well as contributing to (and sometimes
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D-MOSS: Dengue forecasting MOdel Satellite-based System
Half the world’s population is now estimated to be at risk from the dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide. We are leading the development of D-MOSS, a pioneering dengue forecasting system as part of a UK Space agency funded project. This
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Green infrastructure: supporting green river engineering
Responding to the needs of the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, the Welsh Local Government Association and Natural England, HR Wallingford led the development of decision making frameworks that identify the critical success factors to support the selection and application of green
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