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Flood Resilience (FRe) Jargon Buster
Flood Resilience (FRe) Jargon Buster
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Definition:
Flood Resilience (FRe)
Flood resilient technology can be used to help reduce the damage caused by flooding.
Including: non-return air brick, door and window covers and fillers, WC non return valves, retractable water dams, floating water dams, removable water dams.
Relevance to Sustainable Construction:
Opinion:
The Environment Agency’s recommendation is do not build in flood plains.
The Government in the form of Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ODPM instructed Local Authority Planning Departments to give planning permissions to proposed developments in Flood Plains.
The Environment Agency will not permit you to defend your property with bunds because you would push the problem further downstream to spoil another property.
The Environment Agency’s recommendation is to build with sacrificial construction in flood plains
In the event of a flood many properties will be stripped of their sacrificial and flood damaged materials, all sent to landfill and will require many properties to be refurbished to replace those sacrificial materials with more of the same.
If 10,000 properties are flooded then 10,000 properties will be stripped and sent to landfill, 10,000 properties need to be refurbished and 10,000 teams of refurbishers need to be found quickly, the Flood Insurance Refurbishers will take a long time to fix 10,000 properties
It would be better to make the buildings robust and flood tolerant/flood resistant/flood resilient
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
5th January 2014 – 30th August 2016
Flood Resilience (FRe) Jargon Buster
See Also:
GBE Jargon Buster
Theme
- Flood (Jargon Buster Theme) G#1357 N#1341
Abbreviations & Acronyms:
- EA
- FRe (this page)
Terms
- Environment Agency (EA)
- Flood
- Flood Resilience (FRe) (this page)
- SMARTesST
- Managed Retreat
- Sacrificial Construction
GBE Projects
- Flows N#1376
- Future Cities G#872 N#892
- The LifE Project N#1356
HPA Harrison Pitt Architects
- HPAFloodResilientHouse
- Living With Water – Flood Resilient House
- International Design Competition Entry
- 1 Page PDF 672 kB
- Real Stories of Flooding
PDF 4.1 Mb
GBE CPD
- Surveys Tests Analysis (CPD) G#389 N#390
- N224 Flood Risk (CPD) N#312
GBE Future Events
- CIRIA
GBE CPD
GBE Checklist
GBE Links
- Gov.com
- Environment Agency Flood
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
5th January 2014 – 14th January 2017
