ISL is a French independent engineering company, with 30 years experience in hydraulic engineering: flood risk management, infrastructures & hydraulic works, renewable energy incl. hydropower, coastal engineering and advanced simulation.

ISL provides services of excellent standard in the various fields of flood risk management:

• River and sea flood hazard studies, flood hydrology, hydraulic modelling and flood hazard mapping,
• Assessing and mitigating vulnerability to flooding, improving territorial resilience,
• Flood forecasting,
• Engineering of flood protection schemes : dykes; flood mitigation dams, shoreline protection,
• Flood event management : dam and dyke flood management, emergency preparedness,
• Integrated flood risk management strategies and plans,
• Human impact and economic analysis of flood damages, cost benefit analysis and multicriteria analysis,
• Climate change impact assessment.

ISL has gained strong international experience, most notably: in France and Belgium, the Mediterranean region and Sub-saharan Africa.

“Flood risk management is a challenge: very strong social and economical impacts, rather evolving and variable perception of the risks by the society and the stakeholders, technical complexity of the mitigation systems, interrelation with other spatial planning issues. We believe there is not a single and standard answer to all flood risk situations; on the contrary, every situation requires a fine-tuned solution. Our motto would be to try and assist regions, cities and territories to derive their best adapted solution, and to help them setting it up according to the best international standards”. Luc Deroo, President and chief executive officer of ISL Ingénierie.

To find out more please come and visit their stand in Lyon in October (stand number 36) or visit their website on www.isl.fr.