Flood risk management: Slowing the flowSeptember 9, 2019
Flood risk management is an engineering discipline that seeks to mitigate the damage caused when flood flows interact with vulnerable receptors and, a s...
Using artificial intelligence to better predict severe weatherJuly 15, 2019
Researchers create AI algorithm to detect cloud formations that lead to storms...
Pro-active delivery of Flood Risk Management with the OPW in IrelandJuly 15, 2019
For more than 50 years flood modelling has underpinned the development of flood risk management solutions. From its initial use in the design of floo...
How our floating homes will help people in flood-prone countriesJuly 1, 2019
About 40% of the global population live in coastal areas less than 100km from the ocean, facing various climate challenges. The Dream Homes project desi...
Floods will cost the UK billions, but AI can help make sewers the first defenceMay 20, 2019
The UK will need to spend £1bn a year on flood management to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but artificial intelligence can use data t...
Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protectionApril 23, 2019
Roboticists have developed a robot named 'Romu' that can autonomously drive interlocking steel sheet piles into soil. The structures that it builds coul...
Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amendsApril 9, 2019
We have about 12 years to prevent the Earth’s climate from crossing the 1.5℃ warming threshold, beyond which the effects are likely to become signif...
13 facts about the controversial massive Chinese dam that slowed the Earth’s rotationFebruary 12, 2019
The Three Gorges Dam is one of the most ambitious and equally controversial projects on the planet, writes Taylor Donovan Barnett...
NUIG plan for better resilience to climatic changes in agricultural and rural areasDecember 12, 2018
Researchers are implementing the RiskAquaSoil project, which aims to develop a management plan for risks in soil and in water to improve the resilience...
How huge floods and complex infrastructure could have triggered ancient Angkor’s demiseDecember 11, 2018
A series of floods that hit the ancient city of Angkor would have overwhelmed and destroyed its vast water network, according to a new study that provid...
Revealed: Areas in Ireland most at risk from sinkholes and subsidenceOctober 2, 2018
Most vulnerable counties are Galway, Clare and Roscommon, while Wexford and Wicklow are least likely to be affected by subsidence...
Delivering natural flood management in ScotlandSeptember 18, 2018
There has been increasing interest in more sustainable approaches to flood risk management that can complement existing defences and increase their r...
New flood forecast centre to come on stream in Met ÉireannJune 12, 2018
Met Éireann is building an operational Flood Forecast Centre for fluvial and coastal floods, and is recruiting hydrometeorologists and looking for hy...
Dual-purpose wave farms: a new paradigm in coastal engineeringMay 29, 2018
With the advent of technology for transforming wave power into electricity, the objective of coastal engineers will be to protect the coastline and harn...
This park planned to be built in NYC functions as a flood barrierMay 1, 2018
The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project is an initiative that aims to respond to the unique challenges of climate change that the city of New York face...
Keeping your powder dry: OPW and Engineers Ireland issue flooding poster alert to budding engineersFebruary 27, 2018
The poster, aimed at primary school children, is designed to explain how flooding happens and what engineers can do to solve the problem...
Sustainable drainage systems: re-engineering urban landscapes to manage runoffOctober 24, 2017
We are surrounded by examples where the landscape does not provide any tangible management of rainfall and runoff is quickly conveyed underground int...
3-D simulations of dam breaks help engineers to gauge flood impactSeptember 26, 2017
Engineers have performed one of the first highly resolved, 3-D, volume-of-fluid RANS simulations of dam breaks in a natural environment, allowing the...
Should Ireland go Dutch for flood-protection policies and measures?July 18, 2017
Half of the Netherlands’ primary flood-protection structures need reinforcement to meet new safety standards. The Dutch Flood Protection Programme's R...
Using the internet of things to predict the future of flooding in DublinJuly 18, 2017
Low-cost sensors across Dublin are monitoring rainfall, weather conditions and river levels, using wireless technology to provide city authorities with...