Protection against natural hazards

Our services in detail:

Coping with events:

• Initial assessment after a natural disaster or event has occurred
• Determining immediate actions
• Expert advice on rescue teams, crisis units, authorities, etc.

Recognising hazards and their assessment:

• Documentation in the area (maps of the phenomena)
• Modelling processes
• Intensity maps
• Danger maps

Risk analyses:

• Risk analyses
• Cost-benefit analysis of protective measures

Project planning of protective measures

• Securing rocks and inclines
• Safety nets to guard against falling rock
• Protective embankments
• Drainage systems
• Building dams in creeks and rivers
• Measures to protect buildings

Rope access work:

• Initial assessments after fall incidents
• Inspection of rockfaces and protective structures
• Installation of measuring equipment for monitoring

Monitoring and alarm systems:

• Early warning and alarm systems
• Use of the most modern surveillance technologies, such as laser scan or terrestrial radar interferometry
• Crack monitors, extensometres, inclinometres, rip chords
• Measurement of precipitation and run-off
• Automatic alarm systems (SMS, e-mail, radio communication, red-light signals)
• Online data access and WebGIS solutions
• High-resolution deformation camera for monitoring landslides, rock instabilities and glaciers. It can be permanently installed (the camera is attached to a support and powered by a solar panel) or removed after each survey. Economical, precise and flexible system for any type of terrain with automatic image processing.

 

Prevention through simulation

A mud flow (unconfined debris flow, often referred to as slope failure or slope-type debris flow) is a fast moving mixture of debris (pebbles, wood, soil, vegetation cover) and water originating on a steep slope.
In our video animation, you can see the simulation of a mudslide and its course in a subdivision with some houses. CSD ENGINEERS SA can propose and implement preventive measures based on these simulations.