Flood Protection
Structural engineering for flood protection: flood walls, embankment structures, demountable systems, pumping stations and retention structures.
Structures that are loaded rarely and then have to work completely.
What we take on
- Flood walls in reinforced concrete and as sheet pile construction
- Culverts, sluices and closure structures within the defence line
- Foundations for demountable flood barriers
- Pumping stations and retention basins
The load case comes rarely
That shifts the scrutiny from the analysis to the execution and the maintenance. What matters are the penetrations and junctions: every service, every gate and every transition to the adjoining embankment is a potential weak point. We design those in detail rather than in the typical cross-section.
Design flood and freeboard
The protection level is set by the client or the water authority. We design to it and state openly what reserve sits in the structure – so a later raising stays assessable.