Considerate advice on water management
We work with operators to provide quality evidence and advice that aims to satisfy debate, secure social license, and deliver on sustainable objectives.
We work with operators to provide quality evidence and advice that aims to satisfy debate, secure social license, and deliver on sustainable objectives.
Key contact
Regional Business Development Director - Americas
Ottawa, Canada
+1 613 592 2830 (235) environment@bmtglobal.com
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.
Urbanisation, dietary and lifestyle changes are accelerating the water demand. At the same time, water loss through leakage, mainly due to ageing infrastructure, is a significant issue in the developed and developing world.
Governments and companies embracing water stewardship practices and focusing on sustainable water management are increasing. Water and sewerage companies worldwide are coming under pressure to do more with less, putting operational efficiency measures at the top of their agenda.
Companies that adopt water stewardship strategies should anticipate, manage, and mitigate risks such as increasing water costs, changing the regulatory landscape, or disrupting physical supplies.
Communities must now deal with the impact of climate change, extreme weather patterns, population and economic growth, and ageing water and wastewater systems.
Some regions will see more flash floods with devastating consequences on human life, businesses, and infrastructure. At the same time, in parts of the world, droughts may set in and become more prolonged, 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.
We can advise on sustainable management techniques to protect water cycles and reduce the impact of human activity, optimising water and wastewater provision and consumption.
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.
Our extensive experience providing support at flood incident control centres enables us to offer valuable insight to emergency managers in the form of information from our flood forecasting software. Our assessments can advise on likely flood impacts on critical infrastructure such as roads and prepare flood warning communications. It can also be integrated with our planning model or used 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. Our expert knowledge and extensive experience mean we understand and identify ecological cause and effect pathways to help you set the suitable threshold.
Some examples of thresholds and associated sectors that we work for include:
As emerging world leaders in the field of climate change resilience and adaptation, we work across a broad range of sectors, including state and local government agencies, critical infrastructure, finance, health, defence, and security.
We can help you successfully meet the requirements of environmental permits and, in doing so, the needs of regulators.
We provide vital consultant engineering services, including complete project management from conception to completion for marine, port, and coastal projects.
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.
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 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.
With experience across a wide range of geographies, species and groups, we provide expert aquaculture environmental solutions that are always highly innovative, practical and relevant.
A recent report highlighted that 86% of respondents¹ agreed that the port community needs to better understand how to address climate change risk issues
Climate change is happening around the world. Ocean heatwaves cause coral bleaching events which can occur at a large scale and result in massive die-off (bleaching) of corals.
BMT's Greg Fisk recently spoke with James McMahon, CEO of The Climate Service (TCS), a U.S based climate analytics company, about the uptake of climate considerations by the financial sector.
There is increasing recognition by mining executives that extreme weather events and other impacts of a changing climate are becoming central to the corporate risk profile of their industry.
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.
To ensure that the platform's integrity is maintained during a hurricane, measuring the mooring systems and GPS data can provide remote operators confidence that the platform is upright and on location.
Tropical storm preparedness for offshore and nearshore energy projects.
Collecting and validating measurement data is critical to post-hurricane season analysis, but also key in identifying long-term trends and measuring asset performance against design guidelines to detect any fatigue.
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.
BMT conducted a study on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) to climate change in the Solomon Islands.
