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Lanka Hydraulic Institute (LHI) was honored with the Best SME Exporter of the Year Award at the 27ᵗʰ Presidential Export Awards Ceremony, held on 11 December 2025 at the BMICH, Colombo. This prestigious national recognition highlights LHI’s outstanding performance, growing global presence, and excellence in the export sector. Organized by the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB), the ceremony recognized top exporters for the 2024/2025 financial year. Award recipients were selected through a rigorous evaluation process based on export revenue, market diversification, employment generation, environmental sustainability, and value addition. The award reaffirms LHI’s commitment to innovation, technical excellence, and sustainable development.

Lanka Hydraulic Institute Ltd (LHI) is expanding its office and physical modeling facilities to support the growing demand for consultancy services in the coastal and water sectors. The highlight of this expansion is a new 2D physical modeling flume, complementing LHI’s advanced 2D and 3D Hydraulics Laboratory. With a 50m long, 1.5m wide, and 2m high flume, LHI will enhance its modeling capabilities, providing more precise, large-scale models for complex projects. This addition ensures greater productivity and quality. Since 1984, LHI has led global coastal and inland water engineering, completing 600+ projects. With this expansion, LHI continues delivering top-tier services worldwide.

Lanka Hydraulic Institute (LHI) is proud to be part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Green Climate Fund (GCF) initiative aimed at protecting the vulnerable coastal communities of West Point, Liberia, from the impacts of climate change. Our team conducted a comprehensive hydro-engineering study, utilizing advanced numerical and physical modeling to design a 1,050-meter-long coastal revetment that will safeguard the area against erosion and flooding. By combining engineering excellence with community-focused solutions, LHI continues to build climate resilience across Africa and around the globe.

LHI together with LuxConsult (Mtius) Ltd secures a comprehensive coastal stabilization project in Mauritius. It includes coastal protection, landscaping and infrastructure development works for 16 individual sites, distributed over Mauritius' stunning landscape. LHI is prepared to deliver a comprehensive, tailor-made package starting from ecological surveys, measurements, desktop studies, numerical simulations, EIAs, and detailed designs to construction supervision.

The Wellamankara Fishery Harbour in Wennappuwa, which is constructed as the largest fishing harbour in Sri Lanka, was opened to the public on 9th June 2022. The project cost of the harbour reached almost Rs. 2 billion and was completed in December 2021. With a basin area of 7.7 hectares, the fishery harbour has a capacity to moor more than 350 boats at once, including 65 feet length multiday fishing boats.