Infrastructure management and planning

Ensuring the acceptable performance of flood defence assets and the asset systems they compose is a considerable challenge. 

Our staff have expertise in a wide variety in asset types (from natural channels to engineered walls, embankments, gates and pump systems) and the interaction between them and their physical setting.  The concepts of system analysis, reliability and structured option searching all provide useful decision aids.   

Our use of these advanced tools and techniques enable critical assets and asset components to be identified and investment options to be compared and  prioritised on a common footing (from data collection and further analysis through to actions to repair, renovate, replace or indeed remove assets).

Dam safety and risk assessment 
Performance of flood defence infrastructure and engineering design 
Defence reliability and breach analysis
River channel management 
Beach management 
Remote sensing

Example projects and publications

Sayers, P.B, Kortenhaus, A., & Flikweert, J. (2012). Supporting Flood Risk Management Through Better Infrastructure Design And Management. In P. Sayers, Flood Risk: Design, Management and Planning of Flood Defence Infrastructure (1st ed.). Thomas Telford.

Sayers, P.B, Wallis, M., Simm, J., Baxter, G., & Andryszewski, T. (2010). Towards the next generation of risk-based asset management tools. In C. T. Edited by Gareth Pender, Flood Risk Science and Management. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.