HKV Consultants

HKV Consultants

Description

Expertise:
HKV CONSULTANTS is an independent company that provides consultancy services and research in water and safety. We build our services on a profound understanding of physics, mathematics and decision making processes. Established in 1995, we have grown to a firm with 70 experts working from four offices in The Netherlands, Germany and Indonesia. HKV CONSULTANTS has earned a leading reputation in consultancy and research in flood risk management by taking the initiative in the development and practical implementation of many technically innovating and methodological concepts that have found their way into current Dutch risk management practice. Such developments are supported by our own extensive R&D program and collaboration with Dutch universities and European research institutes. Our scope of work covers most aspects of water and safety including:
- Safety, drought and flood risk analyses for regional and urban water systems;
- Disaster management and evacuation plans.
- Research of rivers and estuarine systems;
- High-water analyses for regional water systems;
- Flood forecasting, management and control.

Projects:
HKV CONSULTANTS completes over 250 projects per year in these fields. Our ability to translate successful innovative solutions and concepts in different physical and institutional settings, enabled us to make important contributions to foreign governments in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Just in the past two years we worked on flood management projects in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mekong River Basin, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Germany, Hungary and the USA.

Ambition:
The ambition of HKV CONSULTANTS is to remain the company known for providing high quality consultancy services in the field of Water and Safety. We achieve this ambition with qualified and motivated colleagues, by continuous learning, e.g. our research, paid from our own R&D budget, we have done in New Orleans after Katrina and in France after Xynthia.

HKV CONSULTANTS invest importantly in Flood Control 2015 (FC2015), a €22 million research program for operational water and disaster management (www.floodcontrol2015.com). The program’s ambition is to innovate in the field of water and safety and export the newly developed knowledge.