Flood Risk Assessment (Eg Practice) - Softcover

Evans, Gareth W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0728204754 ISBN 13: 9780728204751

Verlag: Estates Gazette Ltd, 2006

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Flood risk assessment skills must be part of the toolkit of any professional team involved in the assessment of land and buildings for acquisition, redevelopment or insurance purposes. Recent high-profile flood disasters have focused media attention and led to great changes in the property insurance world.

*Written by an expert
*Case study based
*All necessary information in one volume

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Worked in the public sector until 1981. This was followed by management of Central London practices until 1994. He is currently self-employed in a two-partner practice. Gareth is mainly involved in surveys, defect diagnosis etc with strong interest in environmental factors, especially ground conditions and flood risk.

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Flood risk assessment skills must be part of the toolkit of any professional team involved in the assessment of land and buildings for acquisition, redevelopment or insurance purposes. Recent high-profile flood disasters have focused media attention and led to great changes in the property insurance world.

This handbook starts by underlining the significance of floods. It then introduces a basic understanding of hydrology and the workings of river flood plains. Control of floods is discussed, and there is an outline of some less typical flood types. Marine flooding and sea level changes fill a whole chapter, and there is comment on tsunami risk. Case studies explain the factors involved in four recent British floods. Finally, assessment is covered in some detail, including a sample Environment Agency flood risk map and a hypothetical range of properties.

Gareth Evans is a partner in Hove-based chartered surveyors, J Green Associates. Before becoming a surveyor, he trained as a geologist at the University of Wales, Swansea, which, he says, gave him an eye for landscape. For over 30 years, he has wondered why properties are built in obvious flood risk areas. With this handbook, he hopes that others may ask the same question.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Estates Gazette Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0728204754
• ISBN 13: 9780728204751
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 30
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