FLOODPROBE

FloodProBE is a research project supported by the European Commission addressing “Technologies for Improved Safety of the Built Environment in Relation to Flood Events”.

The principal aim of FloodProBE is to provide cost-effective means for flood risk reduction in urban areas. To this end, FloodProBE will develop technologies, methods, concepts and tools for assessment purposes and for the adaptation of new and existing buildings and infrastructure. The principal aim of FloodProBE is to provide cost-effective means for flood risk reduction in urban areas. FloodProBE focussed on: 1) improvement of knowledge on identification and upgrading of weak links in flood defence systems and 2) flood-induced failure of particular critical infrastructure, assessment of damages caused by these failures and development of new interventions. This focus provided methodologies and interventions which allow decision makers to focus their investments and efforts on addressing risk areas in flood defences and urban critical infrastructure.

Six different pilot sites across five countries have been established for collaborative work under FloodProBE. Each pilot site relates to specific aspects of the FloodProBE work programme; whilst each site may link to more than one work programme area, no one single site links to all. Many different reports available about case studies at the link: http://www.floodprobe.eu/project-outputs.asp. The project answers to the need of different stakeholders (such as Municipalities, Airports) in getting the right methodology to analyse the vulnerability of infrastructure and also used specific pilot sites to run studies as Risk Assessment for Strategic Planning (RASP) at the Humber Estuary (UK).