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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National flood mapping for Ireland
We employed state-of-the-art technology to deliver a flood mapping programme for Ireland that raises the bar for flood prediction worldwide. Developed for the Office of Public Works, the new tool provides planners and the public with more wide-ranging and better quality information about flooding
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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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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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Sedimentation studies at Tarbela dam, Pakistan
Tarbela is the largest reservoir in Pakistan and one of the largest in the world. The dam and the reservoir were commissioned in 1974 for the purpose of regulating flow for irrigation and power production. The dam impounds the waters of the Indus River, which carries a heavy sediment load, most of
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International guidance on levees
HR Wallingford has been at the forefront of the development of new international guidance on the design, construction and management of levees. The International Levee Handbook pulls together current knowledge, experience and research into a single, comprehensive handbook. HR Wallingford was a key
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