Case Study: Halcrow achieves better flood-risk management and budget optimisation with Palisade's @RISK

Halcrow Group Ltd and the UK Environment Agency Manage the Risk of Flooding using @RISK

Halcrow Group Ltd, working with the UK Environment Agency to protect communities from rising flood risk, faced the challenge of quantifying a wide range of threats (weather, ground conditions, cost inflation, delays and more) while meeting strict budget-incentive rules on public projects. To support robust, portfolio-level risk management, Halcrow adopted Palisade’s @RISK for flood protection and project risk analysis.

Palisade’s @RISK was used to set phase-by-phase risk budgets, quantify potential threats, monitor performance against incentive thresholds, and inform NCPMS portfolio funding decisions. As a result, Palisade’s solution has helped Halcrow maximize project revenues, improve accountability for public funds, and enable strategic allocation of capital across the Flood Defence programme.

Halcrow

Tim Wells

Project Manager