Hazard Risk Services

Staged Adaptation

Building infrastructure to withstand all potential environmental hazards is cost prohibitive, especially since a worst-case scenario may not occur. With Staged Adaptation, infrastructure is built assuming that it will be modified in the future as actual risks escalate. Risks are monitored; when acceptable risks move to unacceptable risks, infrastructure is adapted without the need to retrofit or rebuild existing structures. These tipping points are determined by the client and their risk appetite.

Staged Adaptation

Although Staged Adaptation may cost more upfront compared to ‘building as usual’, the reduction in risks is significantly decreased while the preparedness for increased hazard risks is significantly increased. Staged Adaptation is cost effective, reducing both costs and environmental risks/hazard exposures and over the life of the infrastructure.

Water Management

Water management often requires the development of specific infrastructure to reduce risks from too much or too little water availability.

Contamination Containment

Monitoring these sites from acceptable risk (containment integrity not likely to be comprised) to unacceptable risk (containment integrity comprised) is critical for ensuring the contaminants do not detrimentally impact water, food, health or other environmental processes and consequently ecosystem services

Clean Up Practices

Clean up practices for contaminated spills assume a given receiving environment, e.g., ice on water, water currents, temperature, wind. If conditions move outside of the assumed conditions, current clean up protocols may not be effective.

Infrastructure Risk Services

Environment changes significantly increases risks on infrastructure, including damage from extreme weather events like flooding, heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and coastal erosion, particularly impacting transportation systems like roads, bridges, and airports, as well as coastal infrastructure due to rising sea levels, potentially leading to disruptions in services, increased maintenance costs, and safety hazards. Existing infrastructure is often not designed to withstand these new weather patterns and extreme events. Understanding how potential environmental hazards may change is key to developing risks reduction plans.

Potential Infrastructure at Risk

Supply Chain

Energy

Transportation

Communications

Home & Business

Health