Research and development

The science of risk management, flooding and coastal processes, together with the approaches to management continue to evolve through practical experience and research. We are passionate about continuing to innovative to develop better knowledge that is useable and useful in practice.  Through links with various leading universities, research networks, research contractors and direct research funding we continue look for innovative solutions to the many complex problems faced by flood and coastal managers today and bring these to our clients. 

Our engineers and scientists have been involved in a number of European funded programmes, including Floodsite (www.floodsite.net), various projects within the Environment Agency Defra research programme as well as more fundamental research supported by NERC and EPSRC (see for example FRMRC -  flood risk management research consortium)

Example projects and publications

RASP - Risk assesment for strategic planning - Paul Sayers lead the development of RASP for the Environment Agency

NaFRA - National Flood Risk Assessment - continue to be updated together the underlying tools. This year Sayers and Partners are working with JBA and HR Wallingford to incoporate a practical assessment of the assoiated uncertainties.

MDSF2 - Modelling Decision Support Framework 2 - Paul Sayers lead the development of MDSF2 for the Environment Agency whilst working at HR Wallingford and continues to be involved with various on-going developments

FACET - Flood and coastal erosion risk tools - to support the national investment strategy in England and Wales are currently being reviewed by Sayers and Partners and Haskoning