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Seawater intake and outfall systems 

COWI designs intake and outfall structures in connection with power plants, industrial facilities, desalination plants and sewage treatment works.


Integrated services

In addition to hydraulic and structural design of intake & outfall structures COWI provides full design services for pumping stations.

  • Developing operational philosophy
  • Hydraulic design
  • Structural design
  • Mechanical and instrumentation design

Re-circulation studies

COWI's in house expertise in environmental modelling is used to perform re-circulation studies and planning of master plans.

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Optimised solutions

We undertake feasibility studies and outline planning in order to develop optimised solutions.  

Intake structures range from bell mouth intakes with buried pipelines to intake channels formed using jetties and breakwaters.  

Discharge structures include culverts, overflow weirs, channels and pipelines.