URS’ activities encompass the complete water cycle, and we offer outstanding capabilities in virtually every facet of the water resources industry. We deliver solutions through integrated teams of water scientists, engineers and environmentalists, serving public and private-sector clients, including water companies, manufacturers, mining and energy companies, developers, contractors, industry regulators, municipal government and government agencies.

We have engineered hundreds of full-service water, wastewater and hydropower projects, offering a full range of planning, design, construction, and programme and construction management services across the water and wastewater industry. This includes water supply planning, water storage and transmission, water treatment and distribution, and wastewater collection, treatment and disposal.

We provide specialist storm water and watershed management, drainage, flood risk management and flood control, water quality management and monitoring, environmental planning and permitting, hydrological and hydraulic modelling and groundwater modelling and resource assessment.

We offer a full service across water stewardship, water efficiency and use minimisation, climate change adaptation, contingency planning and emergency action plans, and we work with our clients in both public and private sectors to develop sustainable management plans.

Our coastal team provides a full oceanographic and metocoean service, combined with coastal modelling, monitoring, development of coastal management plans, assessment of marine impacts, and engineering of coastal structures, beaches and reclamations.

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.