The FloodReady review, led by Professor Peter Bonfield and commissioned by the Environment Agency, was launched today at the Royal Academy of Engineering as part of Flood Action Week – see our post from earlier this week providing background information and events the RAB Team are involved with:
RAB Team Heavily Involved with Events Throughout ‘Flood Action Week’
RAB contributed to the FloodReady review and are working with FloodRe to deliver a data collection template for the ‘Standardisation of Property Flood Resilience Data for Flood Performance Certificates’. Our MD, Russell Burton, was in London along with other industry professionals and Flood Minister Emma Hardy (pictured in main image).
The review recommendations, together with Defra’s announcement of simplified funding rules for PFR, will make a big step towards mainstreaming of PFR. The review sets out 22 recommendations under 6 themes:
- Research & innovation to enable a thriving PFR market.
- Coherent & growing demand
- Trusted and accessible products & services
- Trusted sources of information
- Reducing water runoff at property level
- Regulatory & legislative framework
RAB were referenced in the presentation by Ian Gibbs (PFR roundtable chair) for our contribution to establishing the CIWEM BeFloodReady PFR industry training. CIWEM’s Specialist Register of PFR Professionals has been published today and we are proud to have 5 members of the team on the register already, making us a leading supplier of “Trusted and accessible products & services”. More information is available via this link:
https://befloodready.ciwem.org/specialist_register_for_pfr_professionals/
