About Us
With over 50 years of water engineering expertise, our highly skilled team of professionals provide technical excellence in a broad range of water resource disciplines. Our focus: to design and implement location-specific solutions to resolve both legacy and emerging water resource issues in rapidly changing geographies.
Our staff have the practical experience essential for developing both classical and cutting-edge solutions to project challenges.
Many of our senior specialists include nationally and internationally recognized individuals who have extensive experience in consulting and design on major water resource projects.
NHC’s experts have also made engineering contributions in river engineering; coastal engineering and shoreline protection; dams and spillways; geomorphology and geosciences; hydology, climate change, and water management; hydrometrics and field services; and ice and cold regions engineering.
We combine practical knowledge and experience with sophisticated modelling and analysis to identify and develop solutions for our clients.
NHC is both a local and international company, with a physical hydraulic modelling operation that is the largest in western North America. We’ve completed thousands of projects in North America and many others in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. We maintain a long-term commitment to water-based projects in developing countries through targeted project work and philanthropy.
To provide innovative science and engineering solutions to water-related challenges.
Safety
We are committed to a strong safety program that protects the health and safety of our staff, property, and for the public. We believe all injuries are preventable and that excellence in health and safety is the key to our long-term success. An injury and accident-free workplace is our goal. Through continuous safety and loss control efforts, we believe we can accomplish this.
Our Purpose
At NHC, we are passionate about addressing flooding threats to communities, providing solutions that manage and use water better in the built and natural environment, and protecting and restoring freshwater and coastal ecosystems. Our work continues to benefit the natural environment and lives of individuals around the world.
Our Position
NHC was founded in 1972 by individuals with a strong technical background and unique focus. With change and growth, we remain true to a culture that has shaped our consulting practice over the past 50 years. We are employee-owned, people oriented, and passionate about water. We are dedicated to technical excellence, our clients, and the communities in which we work.
