Consultancy and Expert Opinions

The expertise that the BAW provides with its investigations, assessments and forecasts plays a key role in many waterways engineering projects: from evaluating the potential ecological impacts of adjusting fairways to seaports through to ground investigations for offshore wind turbines, identifying the causes of damages to hydraulic structures and restoring ecological connectivity at barrages.

Our expert opinions need to be robust and able to stand up in court. Hence, all work processes at the BAW must meet high quality standards. To achieve this, our scientific methods and techniques need to be continuously adapted and developed. Quality assurance is based on an excellent data basis, which we have built by means of simulations, measurements and computations. All results are checked carefully at the BAW. This enables us to provide a detailed and robust basis for decisions, which meet economic and ecological demands even for long forecast horizons.