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FloodSmart News

  • What is the future of flood insurance?
    July 8th 2022 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics

    Banks and insurers could potentially lose £334 billion if climate action is not taken now. Discover what the future holds for flood insurance.

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  • Flood prevention: is the UK prepared for the worst?
    April 11th 2022 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics

    What flood defences has the government planned? What are the UK's flood zones? How can flood risk assessments help you? Learn more here.

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  • GeoSmart tests doorstep water level amid Shrewsbury flooding
    February 24th 2022 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics

    Located in Shrewsbury, where River Severn flooding is rife, GeoSmart has created a high-definition map showing various elevation levels in relation to the flooding.

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  • Will it become too expensive to protect homes from flooding?
    January 19th 2022 in Blog, Climate change, Featured, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics, Groundwater Flood Forecasting, GW5, Industry news, News, SuDS

    An interview was published with Emma Howard Boyd, the head of the Environment Agency, in The Times recently, in which she warned it could become too expensive to save homes that are built on flood plains. The caveat comes after the Climate Change Committee calculated that while there are 1.9…

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  • FloodSmart Analytics: a new way to assess flood risk for the mortgage and financial sectors
    FloodSmart Analytics leader Phillip Martin, Managing Director Paul Ellis and data team members work on the new product
    November 15th 2021 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics, Groundwater Flood Forecasting, GW5, Industry news, News

    As Cop26 draws to a close, we’re pleased to unveil our new product FloodSmart Analytics that will enable insurers, risk managers and mortgage lenders to accurately assess flood risk at even single building level. FloodSmart Analytics provides high-definition analysis for flood depths,…

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  • Groundwater flooding in Winter 2019 & 2020 – a near miss
    October 5th 2020 in Blog, Climate change, FloodSmart Analytics, Groundwater Flood Forecasting, GW5, News

    Groundwater flooding represents a significant part of the overall flood risk in the UK, but is widely missed as it results from subsurface flow processes that are not very well understood and hard to observe. This brief review of last Winter brings a useful illustration of the groundwater hazard. …

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  • Groundwater Flooding and Climate Change
    October 16th 2019 in Blog, Climate change, Featured, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics, GW5

    The UK’s climate is changing, and this will potentially increase the frequency, severity and extent of groundwater flooding. Businesses and individuals should take action to assess vulnerability and improve resilience if they are at risk to groundwater flooding and climate change. The first step…

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  • Flood Risk and Climate Change: Developers Must Respond to Greater Uncertainty
    December 4th 2018 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, FloodSmart Analytics

    The Met Office has provided its first major update on climate change in almost 10 years, warning of significant increases in rainfall, flood risk and coastal sea level rise in the decades ahead. This stark warning means planning authorities and communities will assess location for the long term on…

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  • Climate Change and UK Infrastructure: “A Cascade of Risks”
    July 13th 2016 in Blog, Climate change, FloodSmart Analytics

    In a 2,000-page report, the Climate Change Committee outlines clearly that the UK is ill-prepared for the impact of long term climate change on our communities. Critical infrastructure could be destroyed by flooding, while soil quality will deplete through poor, overly intensive farming and land…

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  • Understanding climate change
    November 18th 2015 in Blog, Climate change, FloodSmart Analytics

    Climate change data Significant fluctuations in natural climatic conditions occur over time as evidenced by the geological record and Antarctic ice cores which show a range of -10 C to +6 C over the last 800,000 years relative to current temperature. However, there is good scientific evidence to…

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