Jamuna Rail Bridge river training works
WREMA subconsultant role
Bangladesh · Construction supervision
Construction supervision for river-training works supporting a dedicated 4.8 km railway bridge over the Jamuna River.
Industry sector
Linear Infrastructure
WREMA provides services through all stages of the project cycle from concept to construction completion, focusing on flooding, hydrology, hydraulics, drainage and stormwater treatment for road, rail and pipeline corridors.
Challenges we help solve
- Keep road, rail and pipeline corridors resilient
- Size drainage and waterway crossings
- Manage scour, erosion and construction-stage risk
Typical outputs
- Drainage concepts and designs
- Flood and scour assessments
- Drawings, specifications and review reports
Our services
- Estimation of design flows
- Flood risk assessment
- 1D and 2D hydraulic modelling
- Design of bridge waterways
- Design of culverts
- Design of water quality treatment train
- Design of energy dissipators
- Design of scour protection works
- Environmental impact assessment
- Bridge hydraulics analysis
Project experience
Featured projects
A selection of major linear infrastructure projects undertaken by WREMA's staff, prior to and since the firm's formation in 2014.
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Central Queensland Integrated Rail Project
Experience of WREMA personnel
Queensland, Australia · EIS and prefeasibility
Water-resources and flood assessment of more than 500 railway crossings supporting an environmental impact statement and prefeasibility study.
Goonyella to Abbot Point Railway Project
Experience of WREMA personnel
Queensland, Australia · Technical study and advisory
Drainage and waterway-crossing design for 60 km of coal railway, including flood, scour and erosion-protection assessments.
Trans-Australian Rail Flood Risk Assessment
Experience of WREMA personnel
South Australia and Western Australia · Technical study and advisory
Flood-immunity assessment of about 1,800 km of railway to inform crossing upgrades against revised infrastructure standards.
Western Turner Syncline Mulga Hydrology Study
Experience of WREMA personnel
Pilbara, Western Australia · Technical study and advisory
Two-dimensional flood modelling to optimise environmental culvert locations for a proposed 12 km conveyor through mulga country.
Townsville Port Access Hydraulic Modelling
Experience of WREMA personnel
Townsville, Australia · Technical study and advisory
Hydraulic modelling of a road-and-rail corridor across tidal floodplain to optimise drainage structures and assess flow impacts.
Haul Road P2P5
Experience of WREMA personnel
Pilbara, Western Australia · Technical study and advisory
Catchment-flow assessment and waterway-crossing design for a 20+ km haul road while limiting impacts on sheet-flow-dependent mulga.
Darra to Springfield Transport Corridor Project
Experience of WREMA personnel
Brisbane, Australia · Technical study and advisory
Bridge and stormwater-drainage design supporting a major transport corridor across four Brisbane creek systems.
Nabucco Gas Pipeline
Experience of WREMA personnel
Turkey · Technical study and advisory
Review of flood and scour investigations for a 730 km section of the proposed international gas pipeline through Turkey.
More project experience
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge Construction Project
Dhaka, Bangladesh; OCG, JICA and Bangladesh Railway
Review and evaluation of hydrological survey results, hydrographic and topographic survey supervision, support to the bridge structural design process, design of river-training works, 1D/2D hydrodynamic and morphological modelling of the Jamuna River, physical model testing supervision, riverbed scouring assessment, and preparation of detailed design drawings, BOQs and technical specifications for construction.
Cross Border Road Network Improvement Project (CBTNIP)
Dhaka, Bangladesh; OCG, JICA and Bangladesh Road Authority
Overall hydrological and hydraulic modelling, drainage design and river training works design, including 1D/2D detailed hydrodynamic modelling, scour depth estimation, river morphological analysis, approach road drainage design, and preparation of BOQs, technical specifications and reports.
APLNG Export Pipeline & Gas Collection Header
Queensland; MCJV / Origin Energy
Comprehensive hydrological assessment for a 750km high-pressure gas pipeline in Central Queensland, using regional assessment techniques to determine potential for river channel erosion, scour, buoyancy and waterway morphological change.
Bruce Highway Planning Study
Caboolture River to Caloundra Exit, Queensland; Department of Transport and Main Roads
Hydrological, hydraulic and drainage studies including high-level cross-drainage assessment using existing flood models developed by Moreton Bay Regional Council.
Bruce Highway Link Study
Pine River to Caloundra Exit, Queensland
Hydrological, hydraulic and drainage studies including a flood immunity assessment of the existing highway and proposed highway extension.
Nyidinghu Sheet Flow Assessment
Fortescue Metals Group
Two-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling to assess sheet flow conditions and the impact of a proposed mine development on sheet-flow-dependent mulga adjacent to and downstream of the site.
Hume Highway Southern Alliance
32km freeway north of Albury
Supervision of hydrologic investigations for transverse drainage, including hydrologic modelling, hydraulic modelling, scour calculations and design of scour protection works.
National Road Rehabilitation Project
Malawi; World Bank
Determined the cause of 50 bridge failures on national highways washed away during recent wet seasons, developing an improved understanding of river geomorphology and new scour protection approaches.
Brisbane Gateway Motorway Upgrade
Brisbane
Drainage design manager for the winning tender on this $2.5 billion project.
Orissa State Roads Project
India
Managed a team estimating design discharges, flood levels, potential scour and waterway requirements for 130 bridge sites across 400km of State Highway.
Tugun Motorway Alliance
Gold Coast
Technical reviews and design advice for the drainage component of the Pacific Motorway upgrade.
Sydney Westlink M7
Sydney
Design reviewer for flooding and drainage aspects.
Cobram-Barooga Bridge over Murray River
Victoria
Hydrological and river hydraulic modelling (DELFT-FLS and HEC-RAS) to assess bridge abutment and pier scour, river bank erosion, and design of the bridge abutment protection using riprap.
Alice Springs to Darwin Railway
ADRAIL
Hydrology and hydraulic design for over 100 bridges and 1,000+ major culvert groups across remote inland Australia, developing a regional flood frequency procedure from limited available streamflow data to size waterway structures valued at over $100 million.
Shah Deniz 2 Oil & Gas Terminal Expansion
British Petroleum, London & Baku, Azerbaijan
Cross-drainage design and flood impact assessment of access roads, camp facilities and terminal infrastructure, including rainfall-runoff and flood hydraulic modelling, bridge scour analysis and stormwater drainage design.
Gold Coast Rapid Transit Tender Design
Brisbane
Hydrological and hydraulic design inputs for tender documents, including flood risk assessment and drainage system design for the proposed infrastructure.
Mains & Kessel's Road Intersection
Queensland; Detailed Engineering Design
Peer review of flood and drainage studies as the client's detailed engineering designer.
QCLNG Export Pipeline & Gas Collection Header
Queensland Gas Company
Technical adviser and peer reviewer of the hydrological assessment of over 460 waterway crossings of a high-pressure gas pipeline in Central Queensland.
Wollongong Northern Distributor Extension
Wollongong, NSW
Supervised drainage design for a 10km extension to the Wollongong Northern Distributor.