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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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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Developing a mega port for Kuwait
The Mubarak Al-Kabeer port project, now under construction, brought together many of HR Wallingford’s core activities for port studies: navigation, ship motion, siltation and dredging. The mix of studies linking numerical and physical modelling was a strength of our approach.
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Thames Tideway Tunnel: a super sewer for London
The Thames Tideway Tunnel project will bring London’s sewers into the 21st century, and stop tens of millions of tonnes of untreated sewage flowing into the Thames each year. We helped the Tideway Tunnel team to protect the river environment during the construction and for the design life of the
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Underwater sound modelling of an offshore 3D seismic survey
Our specialist underwater sound modelling of the towed acoustic source on a 3D seismic survey made an important contribution to the overall EIA for a seismic exploration project in the Adriatic Sea.
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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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Drought exercise to optimise water resources management planning
We created a drought simulation workshop to help Bristol Water test their draft Drought Plan. The workshop supported their statutory obligation and helped to make them better prepared to manage droughts specific to their resource system.
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