DHI Water & Environment

DHI Water - Environment - Health
Type Public
Industry Science
Founded 1964 as an offspring from the Technical University of Denmark - Danish Technical University
Headquarters Hørsholm, Denmark
Area served Worldwide
Key people Asger Kej (CEO)
Antoine Labrosse (COO)
Peter Rasmussen (CFO)
Products MIKE 11
MIKE SHE
MIKE BASIN
MIKE FLOOD
MIKE 21
MIKE 21C
MIKE 3
MIKE C-MAP
LITPACK
MIKE URBAN
MOUSE DHI
WEST DHI
ECOLAB
Temporal Analyst
FEFLOW [1]
Employees 1000 (2010)
Website http://www.dhigroup.com/

DHI Water & Environment is a research and consulting organisation developing and applying advanced methods and technologies within hydraulic and water resources engineering. DHI's main business areas are consultant services, software tools and model test facilities related to offshore, coastal, port, river, water resources, urban hydraulics and environmental engineering. DHI is known for developing the MIKE series of numerical modelling software. Since the establishment in 1964, projects have been undertaken in more than 120 countries. It was an early stakeholder (2004) in AquaDania, a Roskilde, Denmark-based company that has developed an efficient, localised water purification system aimed at providing clean drinking water to remote and arid regions of the world.

DHI Water & Environment took its current form after the October 2005 merger of DHI with the Danish Toxicology Centre (DTC). Five years earlier DHI had merged with VKI, the Institute for Water and Environment.

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Designations

Since 1973 DHI has been approval by the Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation as an Authorised Technological Service Institute.

DHI is designated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the Collaborating Center for Water and Health (since 2004) in continuation of being the WHO Collaborating Centre for Water Quality Assessment (since 1993).

It is designated as a Resource Centre for the Global Water Partnership (since 2000).

It is also designated the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Collaborating Centre for Water and Environment (since 2004) in continuation of being the UNEP Collaborating Centre for Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment (since 1976).

DHI is certified as an Authorised Provider of Continuing Education Units by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training, IACET (since 2001).

History

DHI was formerly known as the Danish Hydraulic Institute.

From 1993 to 1998 DHI operated the International Centre for Computational Hydrodynamics (ICCH) as a research unit, receiving financial support in the form of a grant from the Danish Ministry of Research (Grundforskningscentret).

The former Institute for the Water & Environment (VKI)

References

  1. ^ Software