Avalanche engineering

Engineerisk is a consulting company specializing in snow-avalanche protection engineering

  • Protection and dimensioning of ski lifts

    Ski lifts

    Protection and dimensioning of ski lifts
    Engineerisk is to verify the feasibility and provide the necessary prescriptions to ensure the sustainability of the infrastructure with regard to snow and avalanche risks

    Méthology

  • Snow-gliding and snowdrift

    Connex phenomena

    Snow-gliding and snowdrift
    In front of this slow and unpredictable deformation of the snowpack, which then can degenerate into a difficult to control avalanche, Engineerisk has developed a protocol to reduce the phenomenon by placing wooden sleeves across the slope…

    Méthology

  • Preventive release & Avalanche Control Plan

    Safety managment

    Preventive release & Avalanche Control Plan
    The Avalanche Control Plan (PIDA in France) governs the rules of intervention, safety… during the operations of preventive artificial release of avalanches.

    Méthology

  • Detailed zoning and architectural prescriptions

    URBANISM

    Detailed zoning and architectural prescriptions
    Considering that land use plans are sometimes defined at a large or intermediate scale, Engineerisk supports architecture and urban projects

    Méthology

  • Engineerisk

    Experts in Avalanches

    Engineerisk is a consulting company specializing in snow-avalanche protection engineering.

    By remaining strictly focused on snow and avalanche risks only, Engineerisk is positioned as the specialist of these issues, in France and internationally.

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  • L'EQUIPE

    All terrain experts

    The skills of the associates Philippe Berthet-Rambaud (Doctor Engineer in Civil Engineering) et Fanny Bourjaillat (Engineer Natural Risks and Artificial Snow) pallow Engineerisk to carry out all the studies regarding snow and avalanche risks…

  • Experts in Avalanches
  • All terrain experts

Reconstruction of a sheepfold/cheese dairy of Aulon

Contexte :
Following the destruction of a cheese dairy/sheepfold and the damage of several buildings and infrastructures in the Pyrenean village of Aulon, Engineerisk has been chosen to retro-analyze the avalanche event and to define the recommendations:
- To re-build the sheepfold
- To strengthen the security of the village center

Work provided by Engineerisk:
  • - Observations and field surveys with modeling in order to characterize the destructive flow
  • - Interpretation and restitution of the results in the form of a map (of intensity) and accurate architectural prescriptions to find the best and nearest place
  • - Consider dense AND powder (aerosol) flows
  • - Interaction with the Mayor and architect office to determine a new functional and safe project thanks to a ‘’self-protected’’ structure and related dams.
Aulon vu de haut

Aulon vu de haut

Fromagerie d'Aulon post-accident...

Fromagerie d'Aulon post-accident...

Modélisation des écoulements - Aulon

Modélisation des écoulements - Aulon

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Missions and interventions in France and abroad:

Andorre, Azerbaidjan, Bulgarie, Chili, Espagne, Géorgie, Kazakhstan, Russie, Suède, Suisse, Turquie, Ukraine, Colorado, Japon…

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