Research conducted by world leading academics from the University of Liverpool has confirmed that the Flood Technology Group’s ground-breaking Flood Adaptive Platform can reliably withstand multiple natural hazards, such as flooding, strong winds and seismic ground motions.
The Flood Adaptive Platform was developed by Flood Technology Group founder and Managing Director Andrew Parker, who is based at Great Heck in North Yorkshire, after he witnessed the devastation that flooding caused to his friends and family. It’s a unique, sensor-activated, mechanical jack system with a proven ability to lift modular buildings, mobile homes and other infrastructure above rising flood water. After first conceiving the idea, Andrew spent more than a decade testing and honing the Flood Adaptive Platform, in conjunction with academics from the University of Hull’s Flood Innovation Centre, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Liverpool and the HR Wallingford hydraulics research laboratory near Oxford.
Now, a new research paper entitled ‘Innovative steel modular housing system for multiple natural hazard mitigation’, which has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, has highlighted the Flood Adaptive Platform’s vast potential to protect people, property and infrastructure globally from multiple natural hazards.
The paper sets out the findings of research conducted by Luigi Di Sarno of the University of Liverpool’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Roberto Forgione, who’s now based within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois. In the course of their research, Luigi and Roberto subjected the Flood Adaptive Platform developed for modular housing systems to rigorous academic analysis and testing at the University of Liverpool and HR Wallingford to explore whether it could be applied more widely and is capable of reliably withstanding multiple natural hazards.
Their research demonstrated that the Flood Adaptive Platform for modular housing ‘ensures structural integrity, adequate performance and resilience even for extreme flood scenarios characterised by rapid water velocities and severe wind conditions’.
According to their research paper, the ‘innovative and resilient modular housing system presented has also been demonstrated to be reliable for areas with moderate seismicity’, and ‘the proposed resilient and sustainable adaptation technology can be employed efficiently in regions worldwide that are exposed to multiple natural hazards’, such as floods, high winds and seismic ground motions.
Simon Gilliland, Chief Executive of the Flood Technology Group, said:
“We are delighted to see the findings of this latest research conducted by world leading academics from the University of Liverpool published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
“Here at the Flood Technology Group, we’re acutely aware of the Flood Adaptive Platform’s enormous potential to protect people, property and infrastructure in our rapidly changing climate. However, it’s very pleasing to see the findings of this latest research not only reinforcing this view but also demonstrating that its potential goes far beyond flood mitigation.”
Simon added:
“We’re very grateful to Luigi and Roberto for their carefully considered research and are delighted that their open access paper is receiving the recognition it deserves in this leading academic journal.”
To view the newly-published research paper, click here.
Story by Flood Technology Group
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