Your SCE UK office contact person is Laurence Waterhouse FRSA MInstCES,
together with his team

Laurence Waterhouse -
an expert in environmental surveying and consultancy,
flood risk management and climate change.

contact >> Laurence Waterhouse

Working in the fields of :

• Environmental Project planning and management.
• Climate change relating to flood assessment, risks and modifications,
• International Projects, including inter-governmental reports etc.,
• Advisor/consultant to major UK agencies and organisations,
• Specialising in the - consequences of climate related change, flooding, environmental matters, GIS mapping, Hydrography and topographical surveying. Extensive experience in the effects of flooding, flood resistance and resilience, geotechnical problems, weather related events, emergency planning and coastal erosion.

Key experience

35 years experience at a professional level

• Flood Risk Management specialist -extensive knowledge on policy relating to flood damage, flood risk, flood hazard including developing GIS based information systems for rapid assessment of flood risk and extensive knowledge of Flood Risk Assessments
• Field experience, in various countries – Romania, Ireland, UK, USA
• Consultant surveyor and in flood risk management – resistance and resilience.
• Experienced in design and implementation of buildings with specific adaptation to climate change.
• Experience in policy and strategy formulation and review of building laws and regulations, in building subsector
• Experienced in training and capacity building. – trains surveyors and other experts
• Conversant with IT and have vast experience in the use of appropriate software tools in the designs and constructions of new building with specific reference to building guideline and codes
• GIS based asset management systems, Management of geospatial datasets,
• Topographic Surveying, Hydrographic Surveying, LIDAR mapping and surveying, Hydrological and hydrodynamic
• Data collection inc. metrological data analysis
• Flood plain mapping, GIS based report mapping, Integration of existing data sets with flood models,
• Experience in Reservoir stability and reporting,
• Expert witness on flood damage in old buildings,
• Emergency planning, warning systems, emergency plans and public awareness, Integration of emergency services, Flood defence design,
• GIS macro-programming (ArcGIS application builder, database design and maintenance, (SQL server) and programming in GIS MapObjects).

As a Chartered Civil Engineering Surveyor / Land and Hydrographic Surveyor - has been responsible for data collection, supervising of survey contracts and interpretation of data.
As a GIS Expert - able to elaborate accurate methodologies for drawing up flood maps, databases of assets and risk maps, for the assessment of direct physical damages related to floods, for the determination of socially acceptable flood risks.
As a Data Acquisition and Remote sensing specialist - has extensive experience in sourcing data in remote regions and applying this data to flood risk management.