Water Resources Issues and Solutions for the Built Environment: Too Little Versus Too Much

Charlesworth, Susanne M.; Booth, Colin A.

doi:10.1002/9781444354539.ch19

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“…Minimising internal property damage is an obvious financial benefit but minimising the social disruption, by reducing the duration of the repair and reinstatement time, is an immense benefit for property owners because it clearly lessens the length of time spent away from the property. This is because flood resilience features offer the advantage to property owners that they can return and continue normal activities, after drying and cleaning, within a matter of days or weeks, as opposed to several months or sometimes more than a year after a flood event [8] or, in some cases, even two years [14]. Therefore, there is a need for sustained growth in the range of appealing and affordable flood resilient products for property owners to choose, without the attachment of emotional issues.…”

Section: Existing Flood Protection Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors for the design of novel property-level flood resilient products: the Dado Wallboard

Beddoes¹,

Booth²

2012

Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response III

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Community-level flood protection cannot guarantee property owners are free from flood risk, hence, it is the responsibility of property owners themselves to take appropriate action to ensure their properties are suitably protected by flood resistant and/or flood resilient measures. There are many flood products and avenues available for property owners to choose. This article introduces and describes the new Dado Wallboard property-level flood resilient product. It offers several practical advantages over existing internal building designs and fabrics, namely: (i) it is made from waterproof material and, as such, does not need to be replaced when a building has been flooded; (ii) it is mechanically fixed to the building wall substructure so that it remains in place when immersed in floodwater; and (iii) a movable dado rail and movable skirting board allow access into the cavity formed between the dado board and wall substructure and this allows both sides of a wall to be dried simultaneously. The product also offers socio-economic benefits, namely: (i) it reduces post-flood building reinstatement costs because fabric replacement is not necessary; and (ii) the wall drying procedure may reduce the overall time buildings are unoccupied.

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Section: Existing Flood Protection Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors for the design of novel property-level flood resilient products: the Dado Wallboard

Beddoes¹,

Booth²

2012

Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response III

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“…Why are we told to conserve water supplies and alter our attitudes towards water usage, yet our homes and businesses are increasing inundated with floodwaters? This is a question that is common to many communities in many counties around the world and is an everincreasing issue being raised in the United Kingdom (Charlesworth and Booth, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%