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Technologies for the cost-effective Flood Protection of the BuiltEnvironment

Duration: 48 months

Start date: Nov. 1st 2009

Projectcoordinator: Deltares (NL), Derk van Ree

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s

Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement no. 243401.

FloodProBE



Theteam(14partnersfrom7EUMemberStates)

Website: www.FloodProBE.eu

Contact: [email protected]



Environmentaltechnologies

Three axesfor a research strategy

Monitoringtechnologies

Monitoring forbuilt environment

technologies

European competitiveness on the globalmarkets

E U p

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l i c i e s

E R A ,

S & T

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• Recovery plan

• Europe 2020

• SustainableDevelopmentstrategy

• Environmentallegislation

• ETAP

• ERA

Source: European Commission

DG Research and Innovation

Europeanresearchstrategy



• IntheEU1000peoplekilledbyfloodsintheperiod2000-2010

• 40bneuroperyearisspentinEUonfloodmi<ga<onandrecovery

• 75%ofthedamageisinurbanareas

• 3bneuroperyearisspentinEUonlargescaleflooddefencestructures

• 80%ofpopula<onlivesinurbanareasandeconomicvalues(poten<al

damageandcasual<es)aregrowing• climatechange(moresevererainfall,increasedriverdischarges,moresevere

stormsandsealevelrise)willlikelyincreasethesenumbers

• Needforassessingtheexpectedriskreduc<onofcri<calinfrastructures(powersupplies,communica<ons,water,transport,etc)andhighvalue

assets,includingdirectandindirectdamage• Assessingandupgradingtechnologiesforweaklinksinflooddefences

• increasingflood-resilienceofprotectedbuildingsandinfrastructure

• Strategiesforbalancingflooddefencesandfloodresilienceinurbanareas

Problemdescrip@onforEU



Flooddamagepoten@al

• Thismappresentsriverineflooddamagepoten@alfora100-yearreturnperiod,currentclimateandnodefences;

catchmentsandsub-catchmentsoflessthan500km2arenotincluded

• Source:ECJRC,2010hOp://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/



EUwaterpolicy

• WaterFrameworkDirec@ve(ct.2000) – Protec@onof:inlandsurfacewaters,groundwater,transi@onalwatersand

coastalwaters.

– bjec@ves,suchaspreven@ngandreducingpollu@on,promo@ngsustainablewaterusage,environmentalprotec@on,improvingaqua@cecosystemsandmi@ga@ngtheeffectsoffloodsanddroughts.

– Integratedwatermanagementatriverbasinscale(planstobeimplementedby2012)

– Goodecologicalandchemicalstatusby2015• GroundwaterdaughterDirec@ve(Dec.2006)

• FloodsDirec@ve(ct.2007) – Assessmentandmanagementoffloodrisks – PreliminaryriskassessmentbyDec.2011 – FloodriskmappingbyDec.2013 – Developmentoffloodriskmanagementplans(2012-2014),tobepublishedby

Dec.2015.



ExampleoftheRhineriverbasin

Source: Thesis Aline te Linde



FloodRiskManagement:whatweadd

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P a t h w

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( R el i a

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S o ur c

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H ar m

Landuse related damage

Pro-active timing of retrofit

Building damage estimation

Infrastructure networks

…

Exposure analysis

Flood defence

Inundation simulation

Hydrology

Meteorology

Failure mechanisms

Geophysical exploration

…

….

Structure transitions

Geophysics

Erosion processes

Remote sensing

Data integration

…

• AssesmentofflooddefencesandvulnerabilityofBuiltenvironment

(directandindirectconsequences)

• Protec@onandmi@ga@ontechnologies

• Addingonexis@ngDSSformoreeffec@ve

FRMstrategies,gengthebalanceright

= new/upgraded



FloodProBEPilotloca@ons

ROLES FOR PILOTS

Developing new knowledge

Testing/validating solutions

Demonstrating added value

IN CONJUNCTION WITH

THE STAKEHOLDERS



Keyfindingsandperspec@ves

FloodProBEoutputsrelatedtoprojectfocusandaims:

Builtenvironment

• Methodologytoassessflood-resilienceofcri@calinfrastructure(powersupplies,communica@ons,water,transport,etc)andhigh-densityvalueassetsincludingdirectandindirectdamage – utlook:incorpora@oninbuildingcodesinfloodproneareas

Urbanflooddefences• Frameworktoevaluateerosionriskandriskoffailureattransi@onsinurbanflood

defencesincl.performanceofvegeta@on(grasscover)[email protected]@vecharacteriza@onmethods(geophysicaltechniquesandremotesensing). – utlook:improvedengineeringguidanceanddecisionsupportonflooddefence

reliabilityevalua@onusingcombinedinforma@onsources

Construc<ontechnologies• Assessingandupgradingtechnologiesforweaklinksinflooddefences;flood-

proofing“hotspot”buildings(e.g.floodproofhospital),integra@onofshelteringfunc@ontobuildingsandmul@func@onalflooddefences. – utlook:cost-effec@veconceptsandtechnologiesforfloodriskreduc@oninurbanareas



Keyfindingsandperspec@vescon@nued

Decisionsupportandguidancedocuments

• Strategiesforbalancinginvestmentsinfloodresilience(buildings,cri@calinfrastructure)andfloodprotec@on(flooddefences)forcost-efficientfloodriskmanagementinurbanareas.

• Integra@ngtheresearchandnewlydevelopedknowledgeintoexis@ngdecisionsupportmodelsorsystemsandtheproduc@onofindustryguidance

– utlook:supportofdecisionmakerstodeterminehowtoupgradeflooddefencesandincreasefloodresilienceofprotectedbuildingsandcri@calinfrastructureandtoassesstheexpectedriskreduc@onfromthesemeasures.

Communica<onandDissemina<onac<vi<es

• Learning,tes@ng,demonstra@onRTDresultsthroughstakeholder-involvementtoaOainuserfriendly,relevantguidancedocumentsandtheinterac@onand

integra@onofpilotsitestudiesacrossEurope.• Partneringto2012interna@onalfloodriskconferenceaimedataOrac@ngawide

rangeofstakeholdersandna@onali@es

• Science–policyinterfacingtocommunicateoutputsandkeyfindings – utlook:Stakeholderconsulta@onstogaincommonunderstandingand‘buyin’



Partnering FP7 projects:

• Urbanflood• FloodProBE

• SMARTeST• IMPRINTS

• CORFU

• Paper submission closed• Draft preliminary program

coming weeks

http://www.floodrisk2012.net/

Thankyouforhavingmehere.Hopetoseeyouinnovember.

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