Water

In a building, a masterplan or a regeneration project water management often sits at the forefront as a key element. With a wealth of knowledge and experience, out team of highly accomplished engineers offer a wide range of services. These include flood mitigation, flood risk assessments, river engineering, waterfront development along with water resources and marine and coastal engineering.

These skills and attributes have helped Buro Happold work on a vast array of projects. Whether they sit on domestic or foreign shores, our team continue to work on groundbreaking projects which include Hayle Harbour; Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City and Wadi Hanifah.

However complex the area or challenging the environment, our water engineers are skilled at finding innovative solutions to problematic designs. Our fresh approach to flood mitigation, river engineering and waterfront developments help us engage with the client to bring their vision and aspirations to life. Sensitive and sustainable planning is fundamental to our approach.

Our specialist engineers provide the necessary expertise to deliver high quality products while supporting the design team through innovation, creativity and sound engineering. Our links within the industry and academia ensure that we are at the forefront of our field in a rapidly developing industry.

Related disciplines

  • Bridges & civil structures

    The bridges and civil engineering structures team at Buro Happold are experts in the design, construction and maintenance of bridges, tunnels and complex highway structures.

  • Coastal and marine

    Key to all aspects of engineering coastal sites is consideration of the environmental aspects from materials, sustainability and ecology to low impact construction techniques and long-term maintenance requirements.

  • Drainage and storm water management

    Water Resource Management (WRM) is the process by which all elements of the water cycle are considered within a project. It is increasingly important that water is considered as a single, finite resource.

  • Earthworks

    Our team is highly experienced in investigating, analysing, testing and managing the movement of earth and other material around a site to establish formation levels for building and landscaping.

  • Flood risk

    Water management is a key element in virtually all building and urban regeneration projects. To maximise the potential of our developments in a sustainable and environmentally responsible way, effective water management is vital.

  • Geoenvironmental

    The rise in urban regeneration schemes and the need to conserve green spaces in towns and city centres means that many developments are now situated on old industrial brownfield sites. With this transition brings special challenges - cost, risk and liability.

  • Geotechnical

    Buro Happold’s geotechnical group provides its clients with the capability to complete structural, building and civil engineering solutions.

  • Highway engineering

    Highway engineering forms a key part of Buro Happold’s Infrastructure group. With an integrated approach to major urban strategies and masterplan projects, our highway design experts work on some of the most high profile and ambitious projects in the world.

  • People movement

    In the wider built environment, Buro Happold’s People Movement management capability has been applied to optimise circulation in a whole multitude of areas.

  • Transport planning

    Buro Happold’s transport planning team provides a wide range of services to both private and public sector clients. Our team values its client relationships very highly and considers them vital to the success of the project, be it local or international.

  • Utilities engineering

    Utilities infrastructure strategy is an important aspect of any land development or masterplanning process and provides a mechanism for bringing all aspects of development together.

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Event

Wadi Hanifah: Alan Travers to discuss Aga Khan award winning project

16/04/2013

Internationally renowned water expert Alan Travers will be discussing how the regeneration of the Wadi Hanifah wetlands in Saudi Arabia has made a profound effect on the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of Riyadh and...

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Happold Consulting

Project

JingJin New Economic City

04/04/2013

Working closely with architects SOM and our colleagues based in the UK, USA and China, our team prepared a detailed economic strategy to support a concept masterplan for the proposed JingJin New Economic City.  

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Buro Happold

Project

Qianhai urban design of pilot zone

28/02/2013

Qianhai is being developed as the new central business district of Shenzhen on the coast of Da Chan Bay. Buro Happold and Field Operations scope of work was to focus on a pilot zone of 465 hectares comprising of waterfront open space, two river water parks and the urban planning of Guimian sub-district within the wider Masterplan of Qianhai. Buro Happold’s aim was to develop sustainable solutions across the site covering water, waste, energy, and traffic.

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Blog

Working with WaterAid Malawi

25/02/2013

Delivering clean and reliable water supplies in urban environments is a major challenge that many African nations are facing today. In small towns across Malawi the current problem is not actually the supply itself but how to...

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Buro Happold

Project

Copernicus Science Centre

19/02/2013

Situated on the banks of the River Vistula, the mission of  the Copernicus Science Centre, Poland’s most modern education and cultural centre is to inspire curiosity, support learning and make science more accessible and comprehensible to a wider audience.

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Happold Consulting

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KAMA Tri-City Integrated Masterplan

22/11/2012

The Kama Tri-City region is one of the major industrial centres in Russia. It sits upon 30% of the world’s potash resources, a key fertiliser, and also holds metals, oil and gas reserves. It should be a buoyant area. All the major businesses together with new players have plans for expansion. Instead it is suffering from a declining working-age population and increasing proportion of elderly residents.

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Happold Consulting

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Dar es Salaam Development Strategy

19/11/2012

Dar Es Salaam faces some key social and economic challenges as one of the poorest countries in Africa, with growing inequality despite GDP growth of 5-6% per year. There is a growing backlog of urban infrastructure requirements and transportation relies primarily on privately provided mini-buses. Water and electricity household connections remain low and 80% of housing is ‘informal’. In the past, masterplans for the city have not been implemented due to a lack of coordinated planning and inadequate resources.

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Happold Consulting

Project

Al Hada City Development Framework

16/11/2012

Al Hada enjoyed a reputation as one of Saudi Arabia’s premier tourist destinations. Located on the edge of the dramatic Hirithi escarpment, the town’s elevation provides a cooler climate enabling Saudis to benefit from a more outdoor lifestyle during summer months.

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Happold Consulting

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Ad’Diriyyah Comprehensive Development Plan

15/11/2012

Ad’Diriyyah represents a series of stunning historic oasis settlements situated in Wadi Hanifah, itself an area of outstanding natural beauty, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh. The site is both the location for the founding of modern Saudi Arabia as well as the birth of the Wahab school of Islam (the “Oneness Movement”).

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News

Buro Happold joins Battersea redevelopment team

18/09/2012

Buro Happold has been appointed by the Battersea Power Station Development Company to provide multidisciplinary engineering design and consultancy to Phase 1 of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.

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Happold Consulting

Project

MEDSTAR Review

11/09/2012

The Metropolitan Development Strategy for the Ar’Riyadh Region (MEDSTAR) is the regulatory planning document governing Riyadh’s strategic development. Significant changes have been observed in the development of Riyadh since the preparation and implementation of the original MEDSTAR plan. These changes are most recognisable in its demographic profile and economic growth trajectories. This has resulted in, among other things, higher demands for social infrastructure and environmental controls.

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Blog

The rivers run through it

24/08/2012

Water expert David Palmer recounts his tales of the riverbank

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News

Intelligent Cities Expo

27/10/2011

Technologies and Solutions for Smart Cities 8 – 10 November 2011CCH Congress Center Hamburg, Germany Intelligent Cities Expo is the only global exhibition dedicated to the development of smart, sustainable and...

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News

New Marlowe Theatre - a tour de force in theatre and performance space design

01/09/2011

Buro Happold’s latest inspirational performance venue The new Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury opens its doors to the public on 4 October, three years after construction started in 2008. The venue will open with a gala...

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Buro Happold

Project

Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City

26/05/2011

The site of the Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City development is adjacent to the Arabian Gulf coastline, 85km south of Kuwait City. From two environmentally impoverished hyper saline creeks, an ecologically rich waterway city is growing....

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Buro Happold

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Wadi Hanifah

05/05/2011

Wadi Hanifah is a 120km long, 4500km2 watershed that passes through the capital city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Located in the middle of the Najd Plateau it has been labelled the most significant natural feature in the region.

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Buro Happold undertakes South Humber Channel Marine Studies for renewable energy proposals

06/08/2010

Yorkshire Forward commissions consultancy as part of environmental studies team Situated on the east coast of north England, the Humber Estuary is the UK’s largest port complex, handling on average 40,000 ship movements...

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