Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are critical to the success of planning applications in the UK. SuDS must be considered at all stages, from outline feasibility to detailed design features and pipework.
Drainage is a rapidly changing space in …
Modelling large catchments is not for the fainthearted.
In particular, different storm events across the reaches of a catchment affect the volume of flood water differently.
For modelling to be effective, it must simultaneously model short peaky rainfall events and …
The world’s oceans are rising.
Sea-level rise brings greater coastal flood risk and coastal erosion. Coastal properties, livelihoods and infrastructure are all threatened.
Since 1990, the global mean sea level has risen 20 cm because of:
Floods are our most damaging and frequent natural hazard. Strategic flood risk assessments give the essential overview needed to guide development choices.
Given the significance of floods as a hazard, flood risk assessment is crucial to spatial planning, determining both …
Managing the risk of coastal flooding is a hugely complex challenge. Greater statistical analysis is needed to guide design standards for defences.
Communities have made their homes in coastal locations around the UK for centuries. They …
Llanfairfechan and the Kinmel Bay area have been flooded in recent decades, with coastal defences overwhelmed. WHS studied the risks for the future.
Please click here to watch a video of the flooding of Towyn, North Wales in 1990:
Conwy …
In April 2015, the Well-being of Future Generations Act (FGA) came into law to create a Wales that people want to live in, now and in the future.
The FGA was the first legislation in the world to link with …
Issued: June 2016
The National Procurement Service (NPS) Framework for Wales enables the public sector to procure environmental and flood risk services rapidly and efficiently.
Wales has unique flood risk and planning policy challenges. …
Issued: June 2016
Almost ten years ago, the Pitt review of flooding pointed towards a whole-catchment response to flood management. Not just flood defences in urban areas, but changes to upland land use and water flows. Where are we now?
Issued: December 2016
Welsh public bodies using the NPS Framework to tender for flood risk are saving money and delivering value to taxpayers.
We are delivering too. WHS was delighted to be awarded a place in the Framework (Construction Consultancy