flood door Articles
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When is a flood door not a flood door?
When it is ajar or, more relevantly, when it has usurped or bypassed the BSI Kitemark certification There is a very low threshold of entry to the flood protection industry and it is populated by industry players with a wide range of competency, certification and ethics. We at Aquobex take our role as industry leaders seriously and we seek to develop high quality products, reliable installers and ...
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Launch of the world’s first national product standard for flood protection
Flood protection products such as door barriers, flood doors and mobile flood barriers can be a significant investment, but with enormous benefits. The trouble has been that no full national standards have existed anywhere in the world, and so confidence in products has been under question. In the UK a publicly available standard (PAS1188) has been in existence since 2003 whilst in the ...
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Flood protection plan for the Trout Hotel
Aquobex have designed and installed a range of flood door, window and barrier defences bolstered by one-way drain valves, vents and and sump pump to remove any water. ...
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Beachside Holiday Cottage Project - Case Study
Background A stone cottage built in the 1800s on Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, its fundamental attraction being its proximity to the sea. A beautiful beach property, it had no history of flooding, yet ever-changing climate conditions and increasingly higher tide levels became a concern. The owner acknowledged the potential risk of the property flooding in the near future, particularly due to the ...
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Lambourne & Oakland Court Project - Case Study
Background Waterco engineers required a consultancy-focused company with expert knowledge to work alongside large sewerage companies and water authorities. Storm conditions in Wrexham, twinned with a serious incapacity of the sewer system, resulted in major sewer flooding to a new estate. The local water authority required an upgrade to the sewerage system but in the meantime, Aquobex had to ...
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Revisiting an early PFR case study from Berkshire
Blast from the past: revisiting an early customer of Aquobex flood-resilience products A recent video (below) from the Ox-Cam Pathfinder Project, part of a mini-series of interviews to encourage Property Flood Resilience (PFR), was an interesting find for us. Not only does the 5-part series discuss the various flooding problems residents and small business owners find themselves in, but ...
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National Bank Of Oman - Case Study
Background The National Bank of Oman is one of the Sultanate’s leading financial institutions. In 2013 it was decided that they would build a new iconic 50,000 sqm building at Al Athaiba in Muscat to which to relocate its headquarters. The sustainable design by London-based LOM Architecture and Design reflected Oman’s topography and natural elements but had to take account of the ...
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University College Cork Flood Protection System - Case Study
University College Cork Projects A large area of Cork was flooded in November 2009 when the River Lee burst its banks and flood depths of 1m were experienced over a large area of the city. Numerous buildings belonging to University College Cork were affected. Flood Control International has been involved in a number of high profile projects which have been designed and awarded since the flooding ...
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Flood Protection for Utility Sites and Substations - Case Study
Utility Sites Flood Protection In recent years, floods have highlighted the vulnerability of the UK’s critical infrastructure, when the Mythe Water treatment works was cut off by rising floodwaters and water supply to 350,000 people was cut off for up to 11 days, and the Walham electricity substation was effected with 42,000 people losing power for up to 24 hours. Following on from ...
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Why is it important for products to be tested and certified by independent test houses?
Because it makes the results completely independent of the manufacturer’s claims and secondly because it will encompass the entire standard’s tests and methodology. A good example exists in the property protection industry and the British Standard Institute (BSi) Kitemark Publicly Available Standard PAS1188:2014. This is the only freely available standard in the UK for flood ...
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Maple Lodge Water Treatment Site Flood Protection - Case Study
Flood Control International(FCI) is a Framework Partner with Thames Water for the design, supply and installation of flood protection solutions to a range of water treatment assets over a number of their at-risk treatment works. Surveyors from FCI have surveyed over 30 sites with Thames Water to determine the most appropriate solutions and then provide budgets for these options. Once reviewed ...
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PwC Barrier Solution - Case Study
Background Following two burst water mains incidents that swamped the underground car park and basement area at their London offices, PwC decided it was time to take action to prevent this from happening again. The basement area flooded to a depth of approximately 800mm, submerging rooms and flowing through the power room ventilation shaft to knock out power to the whole building. Aquobex was ...
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Essex - an holistic approach to PLP provisioning - Case Study
Following numerous flood events across the county Essex County Council decided to take a proactive stance to prevent future flooding of homes across the county. Background Following a number of significant flood events, Essex County Council (ECC) created a £19m programme running from 2015-6 to 2019-20 to significantly reduce surface water flooding across Essex, broken down into 3 ...
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Speaking in tongues - Deciphering the language of flood resilience for architects
Jargon Most industries and professions are guilty of it. It makes communication easier among those in the know but jargon can often isolate or shut out those who don’t quite understand it and the field of flood resilience is no different. In an attempt to bridge the gap between two related but often disparate fields, this article will demystify some terms that are used widely within ...
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Testing of flood resilient solutions
Introduction The flood protection industry is growing rapidly and is being pushed forward by both national policy and market forces. However, the danger of this fast pace of growth is that it is ploughing ahead without the empirical evidence needed to base design of defences on. Expert knowledge based on experience in other fields such as basement water proofing and historical repairs is ...
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