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Planning and Designing

for Resilient and Green Infrastructure

All facets of society urgently need to build asset and infrastructure resilience to climate change and other uncertainties. Infrastructure and its networks (water supply, energy, transportation, etc.) will be affected by the physical impacts of climate variability and change, but will also play an essential role in building resilience to those impacts. Lynker Intel can help you prioritize, plan, and design new or retrofit old infrastructure and planning tools in a more thoughtful environmentally aligned (“green”) manner that can account for the climate and other changes that may occur over its lifetime.

For example, Lynker Intel has been providing water supply planning and modeling expertise for over 20 years to municipal, state, and federal clients. We provide customized modeling solutions, which allow our clients to plan for changes in future water demand and climate change impacts. Lynker’s in-house water allocation model, CRAM, helps our clients evaluate the needs of their water supply system by performing reservoir sizing evaluations, firm yield analysis, evaluation of new water rights, and capital improvement project planning. By coupling water supply planning models with optimization algorithms, we are able to provide our clients with new intelligence to make their system operations more resilient.

New infrastructure assets should be prioritized, planned, designed, built and operated to account for the climate changes that may occur over their lifetimes. Existing infrastructure may need to be retrofitted, or managed differently, given climate change. Additional infrastructure, such as river defenses, mangroves, sea walls, and beaches and reefs, will need to be constructed to address the physical impacts of climate change and enhanced fluvial and coastal hazards. This additional infrastructure will include natural infrastructure, such as wetlands and nature-based river designs, as well as traditional infrastructure, such as hard defenses and other engineered solutions.

Lynker Intel uses our climate and physically based risk assessment modeling and experience to help clients design climate-resilient infrastructure that has the potential to improve the reliability of service provision, increase asset life and protect asset returns. Building climate resilience can involve a package of structural measures such as raising the height of bridges to account for sea-level rise or using natural infrastructure such as protecting or enhancing natural drainage systems, and management measures such as changing maintenance schedules and including adaptive management to account for uncertainty in the future.

Relevant Case Study

Aurora Water Supply Planning

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Natural Hazards and Risk Assessment

Lynker Intel is a global provider of risk and safety solutions related to natural hazards, with a broad range of services across. Our scientists, engineers, and economists have decades of experience performing risk and damage assessments for the insurance market and planning communities at town, city, and national scales.

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Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting

Lynker Intel has expert hydrologists with strong expertise in field work, data analysis, research, modeling, forecasting, and developing actionable data products across all water environments. We work with a holistic approach to solve water-related issues by considering the combined effect of weather, climate, water and human management.

Geospatial Analytics

Business and government leaders face unprecedented risk from natural hazards, climate change, population growth, geopolitical shifts, and security threats. Lynker Intel can help you by building customized spatial intelligence to visualize risk on “smart” maps, find patterns and trends in big data, and communicate seamlessly during risk mitigation and response.

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Environmental Modeling

Lynker Intel has deep experience working with multi-disciplinary and stakeholder teams to develop ecological restoration solutions for fluvial, coastal, and wetland environments. We work with clients to restore damaged habitats that provide important ecological functions and contribute to improved ecosystem health benefiting humans and wildlife alike.

Climate Change and Population Growth

With decades of deep experience in natural hazards analyses and risk assessment, Lynker Intel partners with private and public organizations to operationalize climate change impact analytics, projections of population growth and subsequent increases in vulnerable assets, as well as other changes influencing hazard and risk exposure, in order to make better business and adaptation decisions for the future impacts of hazards. Decisions that must be made now.

Geohydrology and Groundwater Resource Sustainability

Hidden from view, groundwater provides a critical water supply resource to billions of people across the globe, while simultaneously providing a foundation to healthy ecosystems. Lynker Intel geohydrology professionals have the knowledge and experience to help clients manage their groundwater resource challenges.

Mine Water Management

Considering progressively more stringent regulations, high profile tailings dam disasters, declining ore grades and mine closure activities, sound water management strategies and models are paramount for successful and safe mining. Lynker Intel excels at assessing all phases and functions of mine water resources including the development of water-balance and groundwater flow-and-transport models to support the efficient management of water at a viable price. We understand that the availability, quality, and cost of water are key to investment decisions, and cost-effective water management is critical to profitability.

Site Assessment, Remediation, and Closure

Land, soil and groundwater impacted by accidental spills and releases of chemicals and wastes can present unacceptable risks to human health and the environment. Mitigation of exposure to impacts begins with a sound understanding of the sciences that define their 5 fate and transport. Lynker Intel approaches site assessments, feasibility studies, and remediation of impacted soil and groundwater considering the science and using the wide variety of means and methods in our toolbox.