Methods of assessing flood resilience of critical buildings

Escarameia, M.; Walliman, Nicholas; Zevenbergen, Chris; Graaf, Rutger de

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“…It is not intended to include here an extensive literature review of the many initiatives undertaken in this field in the UK, rest of Europe or worldwide. Some recent publications provide a good overview of this topic [2,3]. DOI…”

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A new standard for flood resistance and resilience of buildings: new build and retrofit

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Abstract.With around three million properties in England affected by severe weather-driven surface water (pluvial) flooding, and the number likely to increase as a result of climate change, it is important that homeowners and businesses are encouraged to take steps to minimise the effects of future flood events. This is where property-level protection and building resilience measures are important. However, stakeholders will continue to need assistance and advice on how to select appropriate measures. Based on laboratory testing and other desk studies, a guidance document was developed in 2007 giving advice on resilient approaches for new buildings. This was adopted by many organisations, to inform measures that could be used, particularly to deal with residual flood risks, which cannot always be designed out. Since 2009, through the 'Statement of Principles' with the insurance industry and the NPPF, unsuitable development has been discouraged in areas at high flood risk. However, with the increased awareness of the need to deal with surface water for existing housing stock, a new standard was needed. Therefore the British Standards Institution has developed a new standard (BS 85500) that updates and extends the guidance document, including retrofitting flood resistance and resilience measures to existing properties. This paper outlines the Standard's contents and some of the key issues associated with its development.

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“…FReT are smart solutions, which refer to any product or material that improves the resilience of the built environment using building aperture technologies, perimeter technologies or building technologies [7,15]. During the last decade, the research on FReT includes many advances [17][18][19][20], leading to certain guidelines, test procedures, and standard regulations e.g., [15,[21][22][23][24].…”

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“…For instance, the authors of [30] analysed costs and benefits of flood precautionary measures for detached single-family houses in order to understand the economic motivation of private households. Critical buildings are in the focus of Escarameia et al [19]. These buildings are treated as individual cases because of their variety in function, design, and construction.…”

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Analysing the Effects of Flood-Resilience Technologies in Urban Areas Using a Synthetic Model Approach

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Abstract:Flood protection systems with their spatial effects play an important role in managing and reducing flood risks. The planning and decision process as well as the technical implementation are well organized and often exercised. However, building-related flood-resilience technologies (FReT) are often neglected due to the absence of suitable approaches to analyse and to integrate such measures in large-scale flood damage mitigation concepts. Against this backdrop, a synthetic model-approach was extended by few complementary methodical steps in order to calculate flood damage to buildings considering the effects of building-related FReT and to analyse the area-related reduction of flood risks by geo-information systems (GIS) with high spatial resolution. It includes a civil engineering based investigation of characteristic properties with its building construction including a selection and combination of appropriate FReT as a basis for derivation of synthetic depth-damage functions. Depending on the real exposition and the implementation level of FReT, the functions can be used and allocated in spatial damage and risk analyses. The application of the extended approach is shown at a case study in Valencia (Spain). In this way, the overall research findings improve the integration of FReT in flood risk management. They provide also some useful information for advising of individuals at risk supporting the selection and implementation of FReT.

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“…The first paper is the product of research funded by the European Union from a multi-disciplinary British/Dutch research team that reports on the development and implementation of a range of screening tools (Escarameia et al, 2016). These tools operate at different scales and allow for the identification and assessment of the vulnerability of critical buildings and infrastructure, and so allows for their better protection and eventual repair if they are damaged.…”

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This edition of Water Management is a themed issue addressing the unfortunately topical subject of flood resilience. The papers in this issue cover a range of new ideas, such as those that can be used to address flood risk in terms of new tools to identify vulnerability and risk, new concepts to better manage risk over the long term and papers that present examples of collaborative working with other professions to better deal with flood risk and so enhance flood resilience.The consequences of flooding in the UK periodically raises the public visibility of the need for enhanced flood management and the role of civil engineers in delivering better flood risk management. The recently announced inquiry by the Parliamentary Committee for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs into future flood prevention in England following the severe flooding this winter is another opportunity for the profession to argue the need for more resources and focus from government to help address flood risk. However, the profession needs to be able to present the best and latest evidence-based methods to reduce flood risk if it is to gain the confidence of government and the public. It is only be continually improving our knowledge and capabilities that the public will have confidence in the abilities of civil engineers and other professions to deliver the infrastructure and management structures that they can place trust in. The papers in this issue play a part in the continual development of knowledge in this area.The first paper is the product of research funded by the European Union from a multi-disciplinary British/Dutch research team that reports on the development and implementation of a range of screening tools (Escarameia et al., 2016). These tools operate at different scales and allow for the identification and assessment of the vulnerability of critical buildings and infrastructure, and so allows for their better protection and eventual repair if they are damaged.The second paper describes a large-scale study to investigate surface water flood risk in Liverpool (Parkes et al., 2016). The paper describes the use of a number of computational tools to assess the surface water flood risk by considering the interactions from different infrastructure systems; for example, the sewer network and surface water culverts, operated by different authorities. The results of the paper clearly demonstrates the need and benefits from different corporate bodies working collaboratively, but also shows the difficulties and constraints that exist when different authorities attempt to work via a collaborative approach.The third paper encourages a new way of thinking about how to tackle flood risk while acknowledging uncertainties (Brisley et al., 2016). This paper examines the potential benefit of using a managed adaptive approach rather than the traditional precautionary approach as a way to deal with long-term uncertainties. A theoretical case study was presented using a wellaccepted method of cost-benefit analysis to estimate the value of using an ...

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Methods of assessing flood resilience of critical buildings

Cited by 6 publications

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A new standard for flood resistance and resilience of buildings: new build and retrofit

A new standard for flood resistance and resilience of buildings: new build and retrofit

Analysing the Effects of Flood-Resilience Technologies in Urban Areas Using a Synthetic Model Approach

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