Profile: HR Wallingford specializes in offering consultancy services in civil engineering and environmental hydraulics. We provide specialist planning, design, and engineering services to the global power industry. We deliver appropriate and effective solutions for complex thermal power, desalination, nuclear power, and marine renewable energy development projects. We develop equipment involving physical modeling technology. Our equipment range from wave generating systems which simulate sea conditions, to providing instrumentation and software to gather & analyze results. We also offer water management solutions covering areas like river infrastructure, emergency planning, flood risk management, flood risk assessment, water resources, and drainage infrastructure. Our physical modeling facilities include wave basins, wave-current or current only basin with uni or bi-directional current discharges, wave flumes equipped with wave absorbing paddles to minimize wave reflections within the flumes, general purpose flow flume with certified volumetric measurement capability, hydraulic structure & river floodplain modeling area and specialist facilities for flood protection product testing, air in pipelines, and aircraft ditching studies.