Climate Change Engineered® |

Climate Change Engineered®

Climate change is one of the most prevalent risks facing the world right now.

Here's how Baird can help you

Baird has worked exclusively in the land-water interface in river, estuary, coastal, and marine environments for nearly forty years.

We are scientists, engineers and designers and we help our clients understand their future climate risk to make the right investments today.

Through a cross-sector, global approach, we help them unlock short-term gains and achieve longer-term resiliency.

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Baird’s Climate Change Services

To reduce climate risk for our clients through designing for adaptation and mitigation, we customize each approach and solution to match our clients’ needs, opportunities, challenges, and limitations. Our services include:

Risk, vulnerability, and uncertainty analysis for communities, cities, and infrastructure

Alternative energy, urban green and grey infrastructure, and climate adaptive development approaches

River and coastal, storm, and catastrophic weather extremes analysis, modeling, and design of flood control structures

Hydraulic and hydrological services including watershed, riverine modeling and complete water cycle analysis

GIS, data analytics and machine learning, including open source data and technologies

CapEx and OpEx cost estimating and material liability forecasting

Marine spatial planning, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and coastal resiliency projects

Great Lakes watershed, river and lake modeling, including ice cover retreat

A Holistic Approach For Specialized Solutions

We believe in empowering our clients and partners to think beyond their immediate concerns to discover a transformative solution that harmonizes with existing natural systems. By balancing science, engineering and ecosystem restoration, we create feasible and practical solutions that are specific to every region and scale. Our holistic approach is based on finding opportunities to reduce climate risk through data-smart methods and the willingness to challenge assumptions by asking the right questions. Together with our clients and partners, we envision what is possible and translate that strategy into solutions for people, businesses, and destinations.

Deciding now, whether and how to adapt activities and systems at various scales, requires a partner with the right mix of data, curiosity, vision, and experience to translate opportunities into resilient solutions.
– DR. DOUG SCOTT, PRINCIPAL

Modeling Risk: Science Matters

At Baird, we take a scientific approach to quantifying uncertainty resulting in real-world possibilities and solutions. Unraveling which data to monitor, analyze, model, and quantify climate risk is essential to serving our clients by allowing us to explore scenarios together that can initiate key business decisions.

Computational fluid dynamics model of wave-structure interaction
Three-dimensional water quality modelling
Nutrient modeling for receiving waters
Hydrodynamic models to support shoreline and habitat restoration
Computational fluid dynamics supporting nearshore reef design as part of coastal resilience improvements
In-house global wave forecasting and hindcasting
Hurricane, combined wave, surge and precipitation modelling
Tide and surge modelling in Australia
Tropical Cyclone Debbie (2017) – Modelled and Measured Wind
Morphological modelling of marsh and delta development
Great Lakes wave and surge models
Urban flooding and resilience models
Computational fluid dynamics models of mangrove wave attenuation

Designing For People

At Baird, we believe that our solutions can also become places of pride and live as a core expression of our clients’ brands.
Together with our clients, we co-create solutions that address long-term resilience and help communicate those benefits to stakeholders and future users. This approach allows us to ensure everyone involved understands and appreciates the investment involved to create unique design solutions that adapt to current and future risks from climate change.