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Flood Adaptive Platform

A system that’s designed to detect and react to flood conditions

Twelve years in the making, our ground-breaking, multi-purpose Flood Adaptive Platform is a mechanical jack system that’s designed to detect and react to flood conditions by automatically elevating above the rising water. It has already been successfully applied to modular buildings and mobile homes/holiday lodges, but it’s potential is limitless.

Based on research we’ve commissioned, The Flood Adaptive Platform costs 40 per cent less to install, operate and maintain than other comparable methods of flood risk mitigation, including flotation-based systems.

By adopting a low-carbon, off-site approach to its assembly, the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, operating and maintaining the Flood Adaptive Platform are up to 90 per cent lower than those from comparable methods of flood risk mitigation.

The Flood Adaptive Platform adheres to the relevant regulatory frameworks for quality and safety. It complies with both UKCA and CE marking standards, ensuring that it meets all applicable safety, health, and environmental regulations in the UK and EU markets.

  • Prices start from as little as £12,000. Contact us today for a quote.

The Flood Adaptive Platform for Mobile homes and holiday lodges

By applying our innovative technology to mobile homes and holiday lodges, we can support the safe development of prime plots of land adjacent to bodies of water and in areas of flood risk, thanks to its proven ability to keep people and property safe throughout a flood event. This is particularly important in flood-prone and coastal areas, where the impact on tourism hits business owners hard.

New research conducted by Flood Technology Group shows that 30 per cent of all UK residential and holiday parks are now at risk of flooding. This equates to more than 1,100 parks in all, or 143,000 individual caravans and lodges. Of those at risk, 19,000 are residential park homes and 124,000 are holiday caravans or lodges. 

Our research reveals that, whilst 61,000 of the affected properties are afforded some level of protection by existing flood defences (those maintained by national government and local authorities), 82,000 have no formal flood protection in place at all. What’s more, 50,000 of those with no flood protection face the highest level of flood risk because, according to the Environment Agency’s flood risk assessment definitions for England, they’re located on what’s known as ‘Flood Zone 3’ land or in areas of Scotland, Wales and Ireland with an equally high level of flood risk (the definitions used have slightly different names in each region of the UK).

Meanwhile, in the region of 20,000 caravan pitches in the UK are not even being used due to flood risk, according to data from the National Caravan Council.

We’re delighted to be working with tourism businesses in several different areas of the country to help them future-proof their operations against the growing flood risk that we face.

Both new build and retrofit tested versions of our Flood Adaptive Platform are available to suit all mobile home types, including single, twin and bespoke units. On our very latest model, which is known as the Concealed Flood Adaptive Platform (C-FAP), the mechanical jacks are completely hidden from view, having been neatly tucked away within the walls.

If you would like to find out how our flood adaptive technology could protect your mobile home, or add value to your site, get in touch with us to discuss it further.

Click here to read a case study about our work to develop the UK’s first fully flood adaptive holiday lodge.

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Our technology is endorsed by Compass, which provides specialist insurance cover for hoiliday and residential park customers.

To find out more or to contact Compass, click here.

We are proud to be an Associate Member of the British Holiday & Home Parks Association and the National Caravan Council

The Flood Adaptive Platform for modular buildings and other applications

Our technology has also been applied to modular buildings, such as the Hadley FloodSAFE House, which we developed in partnership with Hadley Group.

A low carbon, steel-framed house, which is manufactured off-site, it looks just like a normal house but, because it sits on our Flood Adaptive Platform, it has the ability to keep the contents safe and dry.

Modular build techniques are routinely used in affordable and social housing developments, which makes our technology a hugely attractive prospect for local authorities and housing developers across the UK and beyond.

As well as keeping people and their property safe, our unique products have the potential to reduce the pressure on the emergency services during flood events and drastically reduce the clean-up costs associated with flooding. What’s more, they also offer local authorities and developers huge potential for development in areas of high flood risk, which would previously have been considered off-limits.

We believe that our flood adaptive technology can play an important role in attracting inward investment to areas where greater flood resilience is needed, as well as helping to negate the need for costly, carbon heavy flood mitigation work.

The Flood Adaptive Platform’s potential is limitless; it can be used to protect a vast range of infrastructure across many different sectors, from utilities, energy and agriculture to commercial and transportation.

If you have a building project in mind and would like to understand how our flood adaptive technology could help you, contact us to discuss your requirements.

FAQs

How does the Flood Adaptive Platform work?

A series of industry-approved smart sensors are installed around the platform to detect a flood event. Within 15 seconds, these sensors trigger the control panel, which initiates the mechanical jacks to automatically lift the whole structure above the water level, to a maximum height of two metres. They keep it above the water level until it’s safe for the structure to return to ground level.

The Flood Adaptive Platform is 40 mile per hour impact tested, 80 mile per hour wind tested and one metre wave tested. It has the ability to rise from ground level to a maximum height of two metres in approximately 30 minutes, which is quicker than the fastest rate of flood inundation recorded in the UK.

Cost effective and simple to construct, it’s made with tried and tested off-the-shelf components and can run off mains, battery or generator power. As well as an ability to operate using back-up power systems, the robust, fail-safe design that we’ve developed is not dependent on microprocessors, making the Flood Adaptive Platform less prone to electrical failure, although it can also be operated manually.

How can the Flood Adaptive Platform be used?

By applying this innovative technology to mobile homes and holiday lodges, we can support the safe development of prime plots of land adjacent to bodies of water and in areas of flood risk, thanks to its proven ability to keep people and property safe throughout a flood event. Both new build and retrofit tested systems are available, and we already have a licence agreement in place with a major UK mobile home provider.

It has also been applied to modular buildings, such as the Hadley FloodSAFE House, which we developed in partnership with Hadley Group. Modular build techniques are routinely used in affordable and social housing developments, making it a hugely attractive prospect for local authorities and housing developers across the UK and beyond. It has the potential to reduce the pressure on the emergency services during flooding events and drastically reduce the clean-up costs associated with flooding. A low carbon, steel-framed house, which is manufactured off-site, it looks just like a normal house but, because it sits on our Flood Adaptive Platform, it has the ability to keep the contents safe and dry.

These are just two examples of the many ways in which we can harness the power of the Flood Adaptive Platform; its huge potential across many different industries and sectors really is limitless.

How sustainable is the Flood Adaptive Platform?

The Flood Adaptive Platform works in harmony with the natural environment. Unlike traditional solutions for mitigating flood risk, such as engineered flood walls and embankments and land raising, which often increase flood risk elsewhere, The Flood Adaptive Platform does not displace flood water, allowing it to flow unimpeded where it always has. By adopting a low-carbon, off-site approach to its assembly, the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, transporting, installing and maintaining the Flood Adaptive Platform are up to 90 per cent lower than those from comparable methods of flood risk mitigation. Astonishingly, the power needed to lift the Flood Adaptive Platform is less than that required to boil a kettle, which is pretty incredible when you consider that it’s lifting a ten-tonne lodge!