Local government
Organisations are addressing critical economic, environmental, and social issues in response to increased water demand and climate risk.
Organisations are addressing critical economic, environmental, and social issues in response to increased water demand and climate risk.
Key contact
Regional Business Development Director - UK/Europe
Fareham, United Kingdom
+44 (0)1489 553100 enivronment@bmtglobal.com
Urbanisation and dietary and lifestyle changes are accelerating the water demand. At the same time, due to ageing infrastructure, water loss through leakage is a significant issue in the developed and developing world. One answer is to establish water stewardship strategies that anticipate, manage, and mitigate the potentially detrimental impact of water usage by a more closely-knit network of stakeholders.
Governments and companies embracing water stewardship practices and focusing on sustainable water management are increasing. Water and sewerage companies worldwide are under pressure to do more with less, putting operational efficiency measures at the top of their agenda.
Companies that adopt water stewardship strategies will anticipate, manage, and mitigate risks such as increasing water costs, changing the regulatory landscape, or disrupting physical supplies.
Globally, communities must now deal with the impact of climate change, extreme weather patterns, population and economic growth, and ageing water and wastewater systems.
Local regions will see more flash floods, devastating consequences on human life, businesses, and infrastructure. At the same time, droughts may set in and become more prolonged in parts of the world, such as the droughts experienced in California in recent years.
Warmer weather will increase water demand, rising sea levels, and adverse weather patterns, resulting in significant societal changes, such as large-scale human migration.
Our experience providing support at flood incident control centres enables us to offer valuable insight to emergency managers through information from our flood forecasting software. Our assessments can advise on flood impacts on critical infrastructure such as roads and prepare flood warning communications. We can also integrate it with our planning model or use it to inform traditional timeline assessments.
A key element in designing environmental monitoring programmes is determining thresholds beyond which there is a risk of unacceptable ecological impact. We understand and identify environmental cause-and-effect pathways to help you set a suitable tolerance.
We are leading climate risk and resilience experts; able to communicate the science and assist you with recognising and effectively managing risk exposure, and by leveraging our brilliant people, we partner with you to implement strategy, in line with regulatory and economic considerations. We offer the complete package.
Flood studies are an essential first step towards understanding and managing flood risk. They illustrate flood behaviour and risk, quantify the impact of changes to hydrologic regimes and riverine channels/floodplains, and inform planning and environmental studies.
We assist the international shipping industry with emergency response advice and action for an extensive range of serious incidents, 24/7 globally.
We offer an integrated approach that enables total solutions design for urban, peri-urban and catchment systems. We have a detailed understanding of water quality and behaviour in a whole catchment context.
We employ the personal integrity and technical expertise that underpin good environmental outcomes and defensible decisions.
We collect and analyse data efficiently, using it to fuel our environmental assessments, analyses, and proprietary modelling systems to deliver actionable insight.
We understand and speak to the different agendas of your stakeholders and keep you fully informed on progress.
Our credibility within the industry and reputation with regulators add weight to the submissions we make on your behalf.
We offer specialist consulting services emphasising quantitative field surveys and modelling and have a long history of providing innovative solutions to industry, government authorities and environmental managers.
We can help you successfully meet the requirements of environmental permits and, in doing so, the needs of regulators.
We acquire and analyse wind, weather and sea state data to inform design, engineering and operational decision making.
We provide vital consultant engineering services, including complete project management from conception to completion for marine, port, and coastal projects.
With the recent impacts of severe weather events across North and South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales still fresh in our minds, the east coast of Australia has regularly felt the impacts of the La Niña season.
BMT’s Capability Director, Dr. Philip Haines, has been appointed as the Chairperson of the NSW Coastal Council by the NSW Minister of Environment. With a career spanning over 34 years in both New South Wales and Queensland, Dr. Haines brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role.
As we confront the increasing impact of global warming, the challenges our customers face are evolving. Insights from Yaz Majrouh, our commercial partner, highlight how innovation in infrastructure projects, urban planning, and flood disaster management can mitigate the impacts of global warming and encourage adaptation.
Major Projects Lead and Senior Principal Consultant, Greg Fisk, discusses the growing need for sector-specific guidance for marinas and boat yards, in-light of increasing regulation to decarbonise industries.
What are the implications of extreme heat, and how can we build heat resilience in our cities? With heat waves projected to increase in frequency, intensity, and duration, cities must develop an approach to reduce heat-related impacts. To develop such an approach, we should invest in proactive action, building anticipation, enhancing preparedness levels, and ensuring an efficient response mechanism.
While we have invested effort and resources in creating flood-resilient environments, we are far from resilient if we look at the overall climate risk. How can we expand our thinking on climate risk and become more aware of the potential consequences?
Across Australia, there are numerous boat harbours and associated facilities, designed to support multiple maritime users. In this article Jeremy Visser discusses some of the environmental considerations relevant to these facilities and identifies a management approach to overcome them.
‘Resilience of Coastal Cities’: an exploration of coastal city resilience strategies using the “QCoast 2100” case from BMT in Australia
In September 2022, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) announced Australia was entering its third La Niña summer. With catchments already saturated from months of rain, flooding remains a real possibility this summer in many locations, even under more typical summer rain in the tropics.
BMT has been awarded a project by Essex County Council (ECC) in the UK to assist with the development of flood alleviation measures from surface water flooding within three Critical Drainage Areas (CDA) identified by BMT within the County.
BMT is a conference sponsor, speaker and exhibitor at the 2021 Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Conference annual conference focused on looking at how asset management can meet the challenges of climate change.
BMT on board to deliver advancements in wave energy technology
Blue Economy, Springboard for Sustainable Development in Australia’s ocean economies.
Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) announces commencement of its research program with commissioning of 17 scoping projects, with BMT’s collaboration to boost ties between industry, researchers and the community.
BMT’s Rick Cox and Greg Fisk will present and participate in a live Q&A on climate change impacts and planning at “AAPA Anywhere” webinar.
BMT to Lead Cutting-Edge Marine Science for NOAA on $3B ProTech Oceans Domain IDIQ
Brisbane River Strategic Floodplain Management Plan sets new National Benchmark
Sunshine Coast Airport Expansion – Environmental Support.
Floods, storms and coastal surges cause extensive damage, loss of life and disruption, but to fully understand and manage the risks involved takes software that can accurately model the inundation of rivers, urban areas and coastal floodplains.
Flood Interdependence Study: Vaisigano River
Strategies for Coral Reef Restoration - Seychelles
The Brisbane River Catchment Flood Study (BRCFS) was one of the most extensive and most complex flood studies ever undertaken in Australia.
Our team of environmental consultants has been chosen to lead a research project to provide further evidence for actions to be incorporated into the Scottish National Adaptation Plan (SNAP). To help address risks and opportunities identified in the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UKCCRA). The research is commissioned for the Scottish Government through ClimateXChange (CXC) - Scotland’s centre of expertise on climate change.
BMT positions for further growth of climate risk & resilience capabilities in region. Ian is a translator, facilitator, innovator and strategist.
Keeping coastal environments safe from erosion is a challenging task that can require more refined approaches than simple seawalls.
BMT is pleased to announce the appointment of Colleen Martin who will lead the Environment team in the UK
The Marina Industries Association (MIA) is proud to announce the launch of a new and important Environmental Partnership with BMT, a leading international design, engineering, science and risk management consultancy.
BMT can now provide relevant, high quality asset management assessments of organisations against internationally recognised standards (ISO 55000).
Visit BMT and TUFLOW on Stand C5, where our experts can help measure, monitor and advise on risk across a continuum of offshore, coastal zones, rivers, and other waterways.
04-06-2024 - 06-06-2024