Our founders draw on a combined forty years of domain expertise in climate adaptation and design of the built environment. We sell on-demand resilience analytics as a service to companies and communities seeking solutions to urban water threats. Our tools identify true physical vulnerability on all properties, enabling hi-precision understanding of risks—and a quicker path to solutions.

We don’t just estimate risk. Our passion is to accelerate solutions.

Use HazelFLOOD to stress-test buildings, neighborhoods, critical infrastructures, and whole cities. Gauge vulnerabilities and strategically prioritize the right interventions. Prevent losses, mitigate climate impacts, and build water security. Fast.

DiviningLAB is solution-driven.

Most flood models on the market are probabilistic. Probabilistic tools are designed to answer the question: what’s the likelihood (probability) of a storm of intensity X flooding my site?

HazelFLOOD is deterministic. HazelFLOOD is designed to answer the question other models don't: what will happen on my site when storm of intensity X (or Y or Z) occurs?

Determinism delivers certainty.

HazelFLOOD is certain. Its resolution runs between 3m and 0.5m. It provides full 2D physics-based hydrodynamics at that resolution, describing rain and riverine flows’ actual interaction with the built environment.

Other models differ in computational techniques, which result in dramatic differences in precision and fidelity. Some leading probabilistic models are resolved to 30m, and then projected onto higher resolution terrain models (3m) to simulate high fidelity. Most are river-driven (1D), sometimes with rain added. This does not provide a true 2D (physical) description of water’s interaction with the built environment. It provides a graphic coding or characterization of an area.

The difference: HazelFLOOD’s full 2D hydrodynamic modeling is not a graphic shorthand of approximated risk. HazelFLOOD is actual. Certain.

HazelFLOOD is water-real.

Coupling the determinism of flood behavior with the probabilistic likelihood of a flood event is now a feature of HazelFLOOD.

We can plug in state-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting from the world’s leading research centers to provide a view of risk in the near future. The result: forecasts can be multi-month predictions of rainfall intensities, or near-casted hourly or weekly predictions of likely precipitation levels.

HazelFLOOD is interoperable with the world’s best probabilistic data.

Most existing flood models work within low to middle-of-the- road climate projections (RCP 4.5), and a minimum number of storm intensities: 5-, 20-, 100-, and 500-year storms.

HazelFLOOD is not locked into a low or middle-of-the-road climate projection. It offers users the ability to plug in an open-ended spectrum of possible storm intensities, from a summer shower to a 1,000-year flood event, of any duration, from minutes to days.

HazelFLOOD does not bank on moderate projections; it gives users dynamic, on-demand, scenario-based answers for any level of storm severity.

HazelFLOOD is climate-real.

There are four main flood types: fluvial (rivers topping their banks); coastal storm surge; sea level rise; and pluvial (rain). HazelFLOOD’s model is driven by one type in particular: rain. We build on our backgrounds in design of the built environment to model pluvial flooding and its behavior on urban surfaces better than it has ever been modeled.

HazelFLOOD is city-real.

Two reasons:
(1) It is where the pain is greatest: In storms like Harvey, Irma, Maria, Sandy, Michael, the greatest losses are not from wind or storm surge; they are from rain. City rain.

(2) It is where the tools are weakest: rainfall in urban areas (city rain) is widely recognized as the least-well modelled of the flood perils. Pluvial, or rain-based, flooding—also sometimes, and confusingly, called flash flooding, urban flooding, inland flooding, or overland flows—is harder to model than fluvial (river-based) flooding. Pluvial (rain-based) flooding on urban surfaces requires solving more complex shallow water equations (swe).

Global leaders in water engineering reviewed early stage HazelFLOOD development and noted that Hazel’s lightning-fast computation of shallow water equations for overland urban flows (city rain) is potentially a game-changer:

HazelFLOOD “could revolutionize flood modelling.”

By getting rain right—super-fast shallow water equations— we get a bonus: we model and integrate the impacts of river-based flooding on cities with much higher precision.

HazelFLOOD integrates river-based flooding into rain-driven models.

HazelFLOOD is designed to be interoperable with coastal storm surge and sea level rise models.

We are leveraging HazelFLOOD’s precision and speed to build out HazelALERT, providing near-term warnings for improved short-term disaster preparedness and real-time emergency response effectiveness.

Yes, unlike most models, HazelFLOOD accounts for existing infrastructures including storm drain inlets, catch basins, dykes, and channels.

HazelFLOOD is infrastructure-real.