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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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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...
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....
DAMSAT
Minimising the risk of dams failures using remote sensing data....
Aberdeen South Harbour: a project of national significance
After seven years of masterplanning, design and consultation and six years of construction, Aberdeen Harbour Board completed its £420 million flagship port expansion project in summer 2023. We supported Aberdeen at every stage of development of South Harbour....
Pipeline river crossings in Azerbaijan and Georgia
HR Wallingford has been involved in a wide range of activities related to pipelines and rivers in the area between the Caspian and Black Sea in the countries of Azerbaijan and Georgia....
London Gateway Port
London Gateway Port is the UK’s first twenty-first century major deep-sea container port and Europe’s largest logistics park. HR Wallingford has been involved in the design and planning of London Gateway Port since 2002, and for over five years we have acted as DP World’s lead technical advisor for...
Brunei Temburong Bridge
HR Wallingford completed detailed hydrodynamic and sediment transport modelling studies to understand the impacts of the dredging works for the Brunei Temburong Bridge. We developed a monitoring and management plan to minimise its adverse effects....