Consulting Engineers
Providing client focused professional engineering services
Our Specialities
- Bridge Inspections
- Bridges and Highway Structures
- Buildings
- Demolition
- Expert Witness
- Flood Assessment and Drainage
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Highways
- Historical Structures
- Industrial and Process
- Nuclear and Seismic
- Power, Energy and Waste
- Rail
- Schools and Education
- Structural Surveys and Site Appraisals
- Traffic and Transportation
Flood Assessment and Drainage
Wilde Consulting Engineers provide inspections and assessments of existing site drainage networks to establish current condition and capacity. Wilde Consulting Engineers can assist clients in meeting their responsibility by providing site specific solutions, compliant with the current legislation and planning policies.
Services include: -
• Site inspections and surveys
• Cover and invert level surveys
• CCTV inspections and SOND tracing
• Computer modelling using Micro Drainage®
• Sizing and specification of attenuation volume
• Design of control measures to restrict off site flows into the public sewer
• Deign of infiltration solutions
• Source control measures
• Improved field areas to aid land drainage
Our designs generally apply the following principals: -
• Re-use of existing site drains to reduce costs
• Best solutions for long term maintenance
• Management of site flooding beyond the protected return period specified to maintain site serviceability
• Phased installation of drainage to protect sites under development against flooding
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Relevant Case Studies...
School Drainage – Surface Water Assessment
• Computer model produced to assess capacity of existing site network
• Consideration of future demand increase through climate change
• Design of suitable SUDS to increase capacity
Bolshaw Primary School
• Assessment of capacity and performance under current storm volumes and increases climate change
• Survey work conducted outside of school term to avoid disruption to school day
Ravensfield Primary School
• Design of new drainage network to suit school development
• Sizing and specification of attenuation volume to restrict site flooding
• Liaison with Untied Utilities
• Specification of suitable Hydro-Brake to control discharge into public sewer
• New road access road with sewers for adoption
Wellacre Technology College
• Design of new site drainage incorporation SUDS
• Permeable surfaces for source control run off
• Linked attenuation system and rainwater harvesting
The Bollin Primary School
• Initial site survey and capacity assessment of existing drainage network
• Design of attenuation volume to cater for climate change
• Specification of phased construction of new drainage to provide flooding protection during building works
• Liaison with United Utilities
New Drainage Design
• Liaisons with stake holding bodies i.e. United Utilities, Local Authority Planning Department, The Environment Agency
• Section 104 – Sewer Adoption Applications
• SUDS design
• PPS25
Recreational Area – Land Drainage
• Design of new land drainage to improve serviceability
• Lateral drain / sand slit arrangement
• Source control by specifying an improved sand / soil root zone
SUDS Solutions
• Specification of control measures to limit surface water discharge flow rates into public sewers
• Sizing and specification of attenuation volume to contain flooding as per site requirements
• Specification and design of infiltration measures when suitable
Pharmaceutical Research Site
• Rainfall monitoring
• Drainage modelling
• Site assessment
• Leakage and infiltration detection
Residential Area - Flooding Alleviation
• New surface water collection arrangement
• Revised pavement levels to maintain pedestrian access and improved surface flows
Ferrybridge Power Station – New Access Road
• Design of surface water drainage incorporating infiltration measures
• Surface flooding of non sensitive areas permitted as exceedance condition
Highways Drainage Solutions
• Specification of new gully locations
• Design of improved surface levels to assist surface water drainage
Marple Bridge
• Examination of existing records
• Surveying of highway and drainage network
• Specify CCTV investigation
• Report findings and alleviation options
Rigby Lane Waste Transfer Station
• Assessment of existing flows and discharges to British waterways canal
• Determination of principal site reconstruction levels
• Design of new drainage and attenuation measures to meet with environment agency flooding and discharge requirements
River South Tyne Flood Assessment
• Topographical and riverbed surveys to plan reinstatement
• Assessment of boulder sizes and fixing systems for rock fill revetment
• Liaison with public rights of way for pedestrians and horses along bank top