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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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Facilitating the growth of Port Qasim
Ship size has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, and port infrastructure needs to keep pace with this growth. We redesigned the navigation approach channel to Port Qasim so that it can accommodate ultra large container ships, supporting Pakistan’s aspirations to increase cargo capacity
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Drought forecasting helps St Kitts adapt to reduced rainfall
Rainfall is the sole source of drinking water in St Kitts and Nevis, so changes in weather caused by climate change are having a big effect on the water supply. The Caribbean nation is experiencing reduced water for households and agriculture because of significant rainfall variability, including
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Early warning system helps Peru build back better
The coastal El Niño of 2017 caused devastating damage from flooding, mudslides and landslides across Northern Peru. In 2020, a government-to-government agreement between Peru and the United Kingdom was put in place to ensure that the reconstruction created lasting resilience to local communities.
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Building a flood forecasting and warning system for Malaysia
Large areas of Malaysia repeatedly suffer from prolonged and significant floods, causing widespread disruption to communities, businesses and infrastructure. And with climate change and urbanisation expected to lead to bigger and more frequent floods worldwide, early-warning systems are set to
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Investigating sand-gravel beach morphodynamics to help protect coastlines
We’re conducting research to better understand how the varying mixtures of sand and gravel on a beach influences natural coastal protection. Our lab tests will be used to assess and improve the ability of beach morphodynamic models to predict how mixed sand-gravel beaches respond to stormy
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Floating wind design: analysing deep sea challenges for the Stinger Keel
Our analysis of a cutting-edge floating wind foundation design – the Stinger Keel – is helping address the challenges of making huge turbines safe and affordable to build and install in the harsh conditions of deep seas.
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DAMSAT
Minimising the risk of dams failures using remote sensing data.
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