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Flood and water run-off

Floods and challenges associated with water run-off threaten human life and assets worldwide. With increasingly wetter and wilder conditions caused by climate change, floods, water run-offs, and related challenges, such as landslides and erosion, will become even more significant.

Services related to floods and stormwater

  • identification of potentially exposed waterways
  • flood zone mapping
  • flood calculations
  • design of culvert/pipe solutions and security measures
  • erosion protection (both conventional and nature-based solutions)
  • instrumentation and monitoring; warning systems
  • analysis of regional and local effects of climate change, and in particular, how natural hazards and associated risks will change in the future
  • interdisciplinary research related to the effect water has on the risk of landslides and other types of natural hazards
  • consequence assessment of the effects of climate change on stormwater management and waterways
  • numerical modeling of flooding and mass transport
  • security measures against flooding

NGI has the expertise for an interdisciplinary approach to floods and water run-off, including related consequences.

Research and development

The research effort at NGI related to floods and stormwater covers:

  • effect of climate change
  • mass transport
  • erosion linked to floods
  • accompanying consequences of floods and stormwater

Project examples

Methodology for securing buildings against floods and landslides

NGI and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have been engaged as consultants in a project that has developed a new methodology for assessing the overall need to secure existing buildings against floods and landslides. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) was the client and project manager.

Klima 2050

The main goal of SFI Klima 2050 was to reduce the societal risks associated with climate changes and enhanced precipitation and flood water exposure within the built environment.