Capability Statement

APPROACH

Climate change is happening now, and we all need to adapt.

Climate change is putting people, assets, infrastructure, and business continuity at increasing risk. Impacts like flooding, drought, heatwaves, and landslides are taking a growinnng toll on communities and businesses.  For private and public sector organisations, this presents a defining challenge.

At Royal HaskoningDHV, we help public and private sector organisations to build climate resilience – protecting people, assets, and infrastructure from current and future climate risk by adopting innovative solutions.

We combine worldwide experience within an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach with excellent content, and we provide support for every stage of the climate resilience journey.

By combining our deep domain knowledge and practical experience with the latest digital capabilities and data analytics, we enable organisation to predict climate hazards, understand the risk, and respond.

We believe that good models can help us understand complex hydrological situations and give a sound basis for predictions and important decisions.  By combining LiDAR survey data with remote sensing, for example, we are able to create high-resolution flood models to create flood maps for a range of flood events.

OFFERING

Our service offering includes:

  • Access to detailed, high quality, real-time global datasets,

  • Vulnerability, risk and mitigation assessments,

  • Climate risk financial disclosure reporting,

  • Flood and drought management plans,

  • Hydraulic and nature-based design solutions,

  • Land reclamation and waterfront development,

  • Monitoring, forecasting and early warning systems,

  • Asset risk assessment and monitoring,

  • Economic and environmental damage probability assessments,

  • Flood and coastal management plans,

  • Global multi-hazard assessments,

  • Flood, stormwater and water balance modelling,

  • Strategic investment and decision-making advice based on high quality data.

PROJECT EXAMPLES

International Projects

  • Flood Modelling and Detailed Design of Dikes for The Zambezi Basin (Mozambique)

  • Review and Upgrade of Flood Protection for Xinavane Sugar Estates, Incomati Basin (Mozambique)

  • Strategic Flood Risk Assessment New Yangon City (Myanmar)

  • National Flood Risk Analysis (The Netherlands)

National Flood Protection project of The Netherlands (The Netherlands)

Coastal protection project preparation studies for Beira (Mozambique)

  • Flood risk assessment and priority investment planning for Greater Banjul (Gambia)

  • Disaster Risk Assessment and Early Warning System Development (Ghana)

  • Hadejia-Jama’are- Komadugu-Yobe River Basin project (Nigeria)

  • Masaka wetlands flood study (Rwanda)

  • Strengthening Disaster Resilience for Coastal Communities in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam)

Local Projects

  • Flood risk assessment for three townships in Johannesburg (CoJ/JRA, South Africa)

  • Ladysmith flood study (Santam, South Africa)

  • Ekurhuleni flood modelling (EMM, South Africa)

  • Panel for Stormwater masterplanning (JRA, South Africa)

  • Crown city Stormwater management plan (IPROP Limited, South Africa)

  • Knysna Storm Water Masterplan (Knysna Municipality, South Africa)

  • George Storm Water Masterplan (George Municipality, South Africa)

  • Development of stormwater design manual (CoJ, South Africa)

  • Drafting of the Integrated Storm Water Management Plan for the CoJ (CoJ, South Africa)

  • Drafting of the Storm Water Attenuation Guidelines for JRA (JRA, South Africa)

  • Preparation of Stormwater Master Plan and Gravel Borrow Pits Investigation (Mandeni Municipality, South Africa)