We are delighted to confirm that our MD, Russell Burton, is one of the keynote speakers at the forthcoming ‘Different approaches to deliver Property Flood Resilience‘ webinar on Friday 4th April. Russell will be delivering a presentation entitled: Delivering PFR on the Environment Agency’s PFR Framework.
This free webinar is being delivered by BeFloodReady, CIWEM’s Community of Practice for PFR, and is geared towards all individuals and organisations with an interest in flood resilience, particularly local authorities, Risk Management Authorities, and insurers enabling PFR delivery.
More information and registration details can be found on the CIWEM website accessible via the link below:
BE FLOOD READY | Different approaches to deliver Property Flood Resilience | WEBINAR – CIWEM
Some background notes from the event website:
With the risk of flooding increasing as highlighted by the Environment Agency’s National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA2), Property Flood Resilience (PFR) that includes flood preparedness, resistance and recoverability measures is becoming more important as part of multi layered approach to flood risk management, not only as a primary mitigation measure but also to deal with residual risk from existing community flood risk management assets.
The introduction of the Code of Practice for PFR in 2021 set the benchmark for the delivery of good practice covering flood hazard assessment, surveying, design and construction of PFR. The Code of Practice is beginning to underpin some of the initiatives being used to deliver PFR by the public and private sector.
Some significant initiatives supporting PFR delivery include the Environment Agency’s PFR Framework and Flood RE’s Build Back Better. There are also a few local authorities that have delivered PFR themselves. The delivery of PFR is relatively new in the UK and these delivery frameworks have been setup to help improve the competency, consistency and confidence in the delivery of PFR helping to improve the public’s resilience to flooding.