Project Partners and Collaborators

This project is supported by four main industry partners, who will provide guidance and access to infrastructure expertise.

HR Wallingford is an independent civil engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation. They deliver practical solutions to the complex water-related challenges faced by our international clients. With a 65 year track record of achievement, their unique mix of know-how, assets and facilities includes state of the art physical modelling laboratories, a full range of numerical modelling tools and, above all, enthusiastic people with world-renowned skills and expertise. Based in the UK, HR Wallingford has a reputation for excellence and innovation, which is sustained by re-investing profits from our operations into programmes of strategic research and development. HR Wallingford reaches clients and partners globally through a network of offices, agents and alliances around the world. 

Fugro is the world’s largest integrator of geotechnical, survey, subsea and geosciences services. Their services are specifically designed to support a wide range of engineering design and large structure building projects. Fugro GeoConsulting Limited combines the expertise of industry specialists in engineering geology, geophysics, geohazards and geotechnical engineering and applies this to infrasrtucture projects for the oil and gas, renewable energy and telecommunications industries. Fugro is at the forefront of innovation, including direct monitorin of foundation performance and settlement, deployment of autonomous vessels for seafloor and subsurface mapping, and numerical modelling of landslides and their run-out. 

As a world-leading international consultancy, CH2M is committed to tackling their clients’ toughest infrastructure and natural resource challenges with optimism and imagination. Their portfolio covers a wide range of energy, transportation, environment, water, and urban infrastructure projects, for which they provide expert advice in relation to environmental risks. The engineering geomorphology and geohazards team of CH2M is the largest of its kind in the UK and provides bespoke consultancy in relation to coastal instability and erosion, coastal change prediction, shallow and deepwater marine geohazards, remote sensing surveys, ground investigation and slope monitoring networks, landslide management strategies, slope stabilisation, coast protection, and hazard mitigation.

Atkins is one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies. They build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of their ideas. In partiuclar, Atkins' Ground Engineering Practice offers a global capacity for the geological and geotechnical assessment of ground conditions and support to the engineering design of offshore structures in a wide range of environments.