KGAL Consulting Engineers Ltd

KGAL Consulting Engineers Ltd offers structural, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and reliability engineering services in the field of large, bespoke, moving structures, through all stages of a project from concept to final commissioning.

Water Control | Hydropower | Moving Structures |Design Engineering | Project Management | Specialist Consulting | Hydraulic Steel Structures

KGAL has more man-years of experience in the design and construction of hydraulic steel structures than any other comparable UK consultancy, covering all types of water control gates in a variety of applications, including:

Flood defence
River regulation
Dams and reservoirs
Navigable waterways
Pumping stations
Hydropower

Not only is KGAL the UK’s market leader in the design of hydraulic steel structures, but our overseas projects include the design of some of the largest of their type in the world.

Reliability Engineering

KGAL also offers system engineering and, within that, consultancy services addressing risk and reliability. For clients in our core markets of hydropower, water control and moving structures, we provide professional advice on risk management and subsequent mitigation through reliability engineering.

Whether you’re looking for basic advice or a complex assessment, a partner or a leader, inspiration or the total solution; KGAL Consulting Engineers Ltd has the breadth, skill, scale and award-winning experience to meet and exceed your expectations.

Don Regulators (2024)

Flood risk reduction and improved fish migration across the River Rother catchment with online flood gates and a bespoke full-channel fish pass

Holme Sluice Fish Pass Phase 2 (2024)

Phase 2: The construction and commissioning of a new £10m fish pass on the River Trent at Colwick Country Park in Nottinghamshire

Keadby Terminal Assisted Outfall Pumping Station (2024)

Asset refurbishment to maintain flood resilience, while reducing both the operational carbon footprint and the overall impact of the project upgrade

Don Regulators (2023)

The Don Regulators comprise three strategically important regulator gates on the River Rother that are owned, operated and maintained by the Environment Agency (EA). The purpose of the regulators is to reduce the risk of flooding to settlements within the Don catchment, by attenuating flows in the River Rother. JBA-Bentley, in a joint venture relationship, […]

Holme Sluice Fish Pass (2022)

During the 1950s the Holme Sluice Gates structure was constructed, diverting the River Trent from its original path around the Country Park through a newly excavated 80m wide cut channel. The gates are operated by the Environment Agency to maintain navigable river levels within the Nottingham area. At the side of the sluice gates is […]

Keadby Terminal Assisted Outfall Pumping Station (2022)

Keadby Terminal Assisted Outfall (TAO) Pumping Station is at the end of an intricate system of rivers and pumping stations within the low-lying Isle of Axholme catchment in Lincolnshire. It was originally built in the 1940s to discharge water from three parallel channels known as the Three Rivers, into the River Trent during high tides. […]

Boston Barrier Tidal Flood Defence Scheme (2021)

The Boston Barrier Tidal Flood Defence Scheme is a £100m project for the Environment Agency, delivered by BMMJV (a joint venture between BAM Nuttall and Mott MacDonald), to reduce the risk of tidal flooding to 14,300 properties and businesses in Boston, Lincolnshire. Boston is located on the east coast of the United Kingdom off The […]

Foss Barrier (2020)

The Foss Barrier and associated pumping station is a vital asset in the City of York’s flood defences and was constructed in the 1980s in response to severe flooding five years earlier. In flood conditions, a mechanical gate can be lowered to stop rising waters in the River Ouse from flowing back up into the […]

Boston Barrier Tidal Flood Defence Scheme (2019)

Boston Barrier Tidal Flood Defence Scheme is a £100m project for the Environment Agency, delivered by BMMJV (a joint venture between BAM Nuttall and Mott MacDonald), to reduce the risk of tidal flooding to 14,300 properties and businesses in Boston, Lincolnshire. Boston is located on the east coast of the United Kingdom off The Wash […]

Heybridge Sea Gate & Lock Gate Replacement (2017)

At the start of construction for the Hanningfield Raw Water Reservoir, an Act of Parliament The Hanningfield Water Order 1950 was passed with agreements put in place for the maintenance of the lock between the navigation company (Essex Waterways) and Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), parent company of Essex and Suffolk Water. NWG abstracts water from […]

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KGAL Consulting Engineers Ltd

Water Control | Hydropower | Moving Structures |Design Engineering | Project Management | Specialist Consulting ​| Hydraulic Steel Structures

Reliability Engineering

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Water Control | Hydropower | Moving Structures |Design Engineering | Project Management | Specialist Consulting | Hydraulic Steel Structures