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News Release from: Bauer Inner City | Subject: RIBA Approval For Bauer's Flood CPD
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 May 2004
RIBA Approval For Bauer's Flood CPD
The first CPD on flooding to be accredited by RIBA has been launched by Bauer Inner City.
The first CPD on flooding to be accredited by RIBA has been launched by Bauer Inner City, the company responsible for bringing to the UK the demountable barrier system that helped to protect communities along the River Severn from a £20million drenching this spring "Coastal and River Flooding in the UK and Ireland" has been written specifically for architects, consulting and civil engineers, flood defence managers, river scientists and local government departments
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The hour-long presentation by Bauer's technical sales manager Karl Hall BSc ACIOB examines the mechanisms - climatological, anthropogenic and geographical - that promote serious flood events in the UK and Ireland.
It explains how natural factors alone create changes over the long-term and how man-made problems - chiefly greenhouse gas emissions - and urbanisation can worsen an already serious problem.
It also considers the actual effects of flooding, together with new risk-based strategies that will ultimately allow more effective management of floods.
The roles of the various organisations involved in flood management, such as the Environment Agency and SEPA, also come under scrutiny, along with the ways in which they need to respond to new challenges and legislation such as the new EU Water Framework Directive.
Study of current appraisal techniques, and how Government funding impacts on the provision of flood management and defence systems, is made along with the use of new technologies, particularly demountable flood defence systems.
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