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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Buscot Park lake: a heritage dam reinvented
Buscot Park Lake, a historic 18th-century feature in Oxfordshire, UK, faced safety concerns due to its aging dam. A statutory inspection revealed it couldn’t adequately handle floods or emergency drawdown, prompting the need for urgent upgrades. To tackle this, HR Wallingford partnered with the
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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
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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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Projecting future water availability in the UK for the second CCRA
HR Wallingford developed projections of water availability for the UK for the Second CCRA.
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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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