The SAM project is a 3-year Collaborative Research and Development project under the DTI Design, Modelling and Simulation Technology Programme in the Modern Built Environment area. The £1.5M project is 50% funded by DTi. The research is being undertaken by 14 partners across the drainage industry, with HR Wallingford undertaking the project co-ordinator role. The project partners are listed below.

Project Co-ordinator
HR Wallingford Limited

Technical Task Leaders
Imperial College
University of Newcastle
Wallingford Software
University of Sheffield

Other Project Partners
Black and Veatch
Environment Agency
Glasgow City Council
Met Office
Mouchel Parkman
Scottish Water
Thames Water
UKWIR
Yorkshire Water

The aim of the DTI SAM project is to develop a Risk-Based procedure and tools to support Integrated Urban Drainage Design and Management, for use by drainage practitioners, including tools and guidance on the application of spatially varied rainfall. The procedure and supporting tools will be demonstrated and evaluated on two pilot studies located in Glasgow and Bradford as part of the project.