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Flood Control International was recently contacted by Fairmead School and asked if a representative could visit for a careers day.
Fairmead School is a school for students with Moderate Learning Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorder. We sent one of our Design Managers along to talk to the students about flood prevention and the wider water management and engineering industry. The classes were very hands on with the students building their own flood defences. The budding engineers were also provided with a demo system that they could assemble to get a feel for the different materials and mechanisms that operate a real-life flood barrier.
The feedback from the students and the teachers (as well as our Design Manager) was fantastic!
Flood Control International recently installed a 20m wide by 3m high double sliding flood gate across a State Highway in New Zealand. The flood gate works on a level ground-beam with special swing-out braces to take the water loads.
The flood gate replaces a large demountable barrier that used to take up to 15 operatives 4 hours to install each time it was required. This was a serious disruption to a State Highway, with a 26km diversionary route.
With the new flood gates, the road can be protected by only 2-3 operatives in under 20 minutes.
Boxwall Selected by London Fire Brigade
Flood Control International has recently been awarded the contract to supply Flood Protection Barriers to London Fire Brigade for the next two years.
The NOAQ Boxwall barriers were chosen as the best solution when considering usability, lifespan and flexibility as well as cost.
Boxwall consists of lightweight interlocking units that click together to make a continuous watertight barrier up to 500mm high.
Flood Control International recently installed a demountable flood barrier on the Scottish island of Islay for the Ardbeg whisky distillery.
The 10m wide, 1.5m high demountable barrier has four spans and is fully removable when not in use leaving the area clear for pedestrian access.
With bespoke storage nearby, the flood defence system takes just 20 minutes to install for two operatives.
Flood Control International was recently engaged by the Environment Agency in the UK to modify a number of old flood gates that were ineffective at Stonely UK.
The gates had been supplied in the 1990s by another company, and were ineffective in recent floods.
Flood Control International’s innovative solution was to change the way the gate sealed by introducing a lift and lower hinge that meant that sealing was aided by the weight of the flood gate. All seals were replaced as well as the modifications to the hinge mechanism, and now the flood gates are 100% effective, at a fraction of the price for new flood gates that would have been required had the existing ones not been modified.
Flood Control International is completing installation of over 50 flood barriers up to 2.4 metres high to protect the 4.7 acre Finzels Reach Development in Bristol.
This innovative design includes fully removable end supports, posts and beams so that when stored there is minimal evidence that the area is able to be defended quickly.
This solution suits listed buildings or where aesthetics are paramount.
The oil depot at Buncefield has been completely rebuilt after its devastating explosion in 2005.
Flood Control International was selected to design and install five oil containment gates for the entrances to the site.
Strict limitations on operational requirements and minimal allowable leakage rates meant that new seals had to be developed and automated gate operation installed as two of the gates will be constant access entrance / egress gates.
Both sliding and lift-hinged swing gates were designed, up to 10 metres wide and 2.85 metres high.
Flood Control International has just completed design and fabrication of some new sliding flood gates for a project in New Zealand.
The gates are to protect a town by closing off a roadway 21 metres wide and 2.7metres high (69ft x 9ft).
The twin flood gates will replace an existing demountable flood barrier which, due to its size, requires a large amount of manpower and time to install in advance of a flood.
As the road is a busy highway, the time closed off needed to be minimised. Also, there could be no step or trough to guide/ support the gate due to it being across a highway, and the possibility of any trough filling with debris/ ice/ water.
The two leaves of the flood gate are winched horizontally into position and then lowered on their wheels to form a fully watertight barrier.
Swing-out braces on the back of the flood gate locate into the groundbeam and are supported on the existing concrete foundations from the demountable flood barriers, thereby saving the need for extensive excavation and concreting works to support such a massive gate with high flood loads
Flood Control International recently installed and commissioned a Sliding Flood Gate in Dover, UK to protect a water company pumping station.
This manual Sliding Flood Gate operates without the need for an in-ground trough which can fill with water or debris or ice, and can be fully closed by one operative within five minutes.
The Sliding Flood Gate’s innovative system allows it to lower onto its base seal when in the closed position to create a watertight seal.
Flood Control International is completing a Glass Floodwall project at New Ross In southern Ireland. The Glass Floodwall varies in height from 600mm to 1200mm, and provides permanent protection against flooding with no intervention required.
A solid wall would have been unacceptable in this attractive town, and Flood Control International’s Glass Floodwall with stainless steel framing was chosen as a durable, dependable solution that enhances the public area as well as provides full height flood protection.
The design allows for impact loading and also a sacrificial lamination in each glass pane so that even if one pane would crack, the full height water level is still contained.
Flood Control International is a Framework Partner for delivering the Flood Resilience Programme with Thames Water. The framework involves protecting a number water and wastewater treatment sites from flooding.
Our project at Maple Lodge WWTW is currently well underway with most of the at-risk assets protected. The designs have had to take in many considerations such as usability, the continuance of operations as well as cost and the variety of types of asset requiring protection. This project is the first of many which Flood Control International is preparing to deliver.
Flood Control International recently supplied a self-closing flood barrier to a car park in Tunbridge Wells. The flood barrier activates automatically with the rising floodwater, and does not require any human intervention to protect the area.
Flood Control International is nearing completion supplying and installing a 530m long flood-proof glass wall along the estuary at Shoreham by Sea. The glass floodwall uses marine grade stainless steel frames and specially designed glass, and allows a continuous width handrail for a good visual line. The glass flood barriers are designed to allow for full height loading and impact loads, and offer a cost effective permanent solution to raising flood protection heights without removing any views from homeowners and riverbank users.
Flood Control International recently supplied some high pressure flood doors for the basement of a New York Hospital. The flood doors are able to withstand up to 30 metres of water pressure – from either side. The high pressure flood doors are based on submarine doors with redesigned frames to allow them to be built into building openings. Operation is easy with multiple latching points around the frame all operated by a central locking wheel.
Flood Control International recently added double flood gates to an historic bridge as part of the ‘Lower Don Flood Relief Scheme’ in Sheffield, UK.
The flood gates had to integrate with the existing steel plate bridge, and also open ‘up slope’ into the bridge.
Flood Control International’s ‘Lift-Hinged Gates’ were chosen as they could rise when open to store correctly up the slope, and work on dead level thresholds, so that public access was not affected by a slope or ramp.
The central post is fully removable, although there is pedestrian access only over the bridge.
The gate is one of 28 flood gates, flood doors and flood barriers delivered as part of the scheme.
Flood Control International designs, supplies and installs the widest range of flood prevention solutions in the world, together with a full spectrum of associated professional services. We are proud to operate international subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Australia and India, as well as through distributors throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.
