Services
Offering comprehensive avalanche risk reduction solutions.
Avalanche Risk Solutions (ARS) is engaged by a variety of clients in the United States to consult on a wide range of avalanche risk reduction projects.
Our team specializes in developing avalanche safety plans, avalanche atlases, weather station placement, and avalanche detection system arrays, calculating avalanche risk for highways, developing structural avalanche defenses, and conducting ‘alternatives to artillery’ analysis for avalanche risk reduction for ski areas and transportation. Clients range from mines to ski areas to highways to pipelines.
Avalanche Risk Reduction Programs
Avalanche Research
ARS and its predecessors have been involved in avalanche research since 1982. (Read more)
Short Term Risk Reduction
Risk Reduction for projects brief in time or scope, but where some level of avalanche risk exists. (Read more)
Longer Term Risk Reduction
Risk Reduction for projects where avalanche risk is primary and an avalanche safety plan is developed. (Read more)
Concept Planning
Planning for large multi-phased projects with the project's viability not determined until a future date. (Read more)
Quantifying Avalanche Risk
With any kind of transportation corridor, it is possible to quantify the avalanche risk objectively using the Avalanche Hazard Index. (Read more)
Ski Area-Based Avalanche Assessments
ARS is at the forefront of producing concept and implementation plans for conversion from military artillery to Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS). (Read more)
Urban Risk Reduction
Recent trends highlight the difficulty of implementing avalanche zoning laws on the interface between wild and urban settings. (Read more)
Project Management
Providing support in many forms for your capital construction efforts related to implementing an avalanche program or modifying an existing program. (Read more)
Case Studies
