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Landmark and TEDs support architects with Designing for Flood Resilience

The land, property and environmental data specialist, Landmark Information, is supporting Ed Barsley of The Environmental Design Studio (TEDS) in delivering a brand new seminar as part of The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Core CPD programme.

‘Designing for Flood Resilience’ provides guidance to architects and designers, while exploring techniques for understanding flood risk contexts, and flood resistance and resilience strategies.

The seminar series is being held in 12 locations across the UK during the course of the year, including Birmingham (1 March), Gateshead (8 March), Exeter (28 March), Chelmsford (10 May) and London (17 May & 5 June). Landmark is supporting the seminar by providing environmental data insights, as well as consultancy advice and best practice from its in-house environmental consultancy team, Argyll Environmental.

Confirms Paul Blewett, Head of Sales at Landmark Information: “Designing our future communities so they are prepared for flood events is something that architects and designers are all greatly aware of, particularly given the high number of extreme flood events we have experienced over recent years. Ed Barsley will be delivering a highly informative seminar that introduces the key principles of designing for resilience, and we are delighted to be supporting the programme with data insights and environmental intelligence.”

The seminar will discuss the various types of flooding that can occur and explains the range of tools and techniques available for understanding flood risk contexts. Strategies for adaptation and resilience are discussed at the catchment, community and building scale in relation to both new and existing buildings. Using case studies and worked examples, Ed will also explain how these techniques may be effectively applied.

Ed is a specialist in environmental design in architecture with a particular interest on developing strategies to reduce flood risk and increase resilience in the built environment.

As part of his role at TEDS, he is a special advisor on flood risk to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industry Strategy, in addition to work he is currently doing to develop a methodology for assessing flood resilience of existing communities, as part of a PhD in Architecture at the University of Cambridge.

The comprehensive sessions will include: • Flood risk contexts: impacts at the global, national and community scale • Types of flooding: the causes, impacts and relevant strategies • Tools and techniques for understanding flood risk and resilience: key principles and resources available • Flood risk management: traditional and contemporary approaches, both inland and coastal • Community level strategies: Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), street level strategies • Building level strategies: resistance and resilience measures for both new build and existing buildings • Reflections on the pathway to a resilient future: opportunities and barriers to change

For more information on the RIBA Core CPD seminars, search for RIBA Designing for Resilience.

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