Europe and Middle East
Water resources
URS offers public and private-sector clients outstanding capabilities in virtually every facet of the water resources industry.We have engineered hundreds of full-service water, wastewater and hydropower projects since 1908, offering a full range of planning, design, construction and programme and construction management services across the water and wastewater industry, including water supply planning, water storage and transmission, water quality management planning, water treatment and distribution and wastewater collection, treatment and disposal.
URS offers an unrivalled range of resources in the highly fragmented water sector. In addition to strong water and wastewater treatment capabilities, we provide specialist storm water and watershed management, hydropower, flood control, water quality monitoring, environmental planning and permitting, pipeline and pumping plant design, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, emergency action planning and groundwater desalination.
URS has a global reputation for dam and reservoir design, hydropower, tunnelling and micro-tunnelling. Our dam projects include earth and rockfill, concrete arch, conventional concrete gravity and roller compacted concrete gravity dams, as well as hybrid dams, including concrete-faced rockfill dams and dams utilising asphalt and plastic concrete cores.