PARTNER PROFILE
WL | Delft Hydraulics is an independent research institute and specialist consultancy based in the Netherlands. The Institute has been providing clients, at home and abroad, with expert advice and technical assistance on water-related issues for over 70 years. Its staff of 350 qualified and committed professionals, comprising civil engineers, hydrodynamic and morphodynamic specialists, marine biologists, and experts in public administration, combine an in-depth command of critical details with an across-the-board overview. The institute has gained international recognition for cost-effective, practical, multidisciplinary and innovative solutions. Our services can be supported by data management software or mathematical models, that have been developed at WL | Delft Hydraulics and have been applied to a wide range of projects throughout the world. In addition, our institute employs rigorous quality assurance and quality control procedures limited not only to its project management and administration but also to data management and modelling.
WL | Delft Hydraulics has built up an extensive experience in the field of water quality studies, environmental impact assessment studies, coastal zone management, marine and estuarine management, river basin management and environmental policy analysis. WL | Delft Hydraulics has carried out numerous studies on the environmental and ecological impacts of thermal and brine discharges, nutrient loadings, turbidity plumes, eutrophication and other water quality problems in estuarine, coastal and marine environments. This knowledge is not limited to the technical aspects, but also in the policy and management aspects of potential resource use conflicts and the prediction, prevention and mitigation of environmental impacts of developments that potentially affect the aquatic environment.
WL | Delft Hydraulics’ suite of mathematical models include all of the most important hydrodynamic, chemical and ecological processes. These tools can be used to determine the carrying capacity of a given area using anything from an empirical 1D approach to sophisticated deterministic 3D modelling. Key to our approach is a fundamental understanding of the underpinning ecological processes combined with a quantitative analysis of hydrodynamic and chemical processes at play.
Key qualifications of particular relevance to KEYZONES include expertise in assessing environmental impacts; in hydrodynamic, morphological, (harmful) algal bloom and water quality modelling, and in environmental policy analysis and habitat evaluation procedures.