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Planning and Construction

The challenge for town planners is to maximise the utility of land for public usage, while creating spaces in which people enjoy living and working within a more natural environment.  In recent years there has been far greater awareness of the benefits to human well being to natural living spaces on the one hand, and to the use of green infrastructure t provide long term, lower cost, lower maintenance solutions to water management in urban areas.  These challenges have been compounded by rapid population growth in the south-east of the England and pressures to accommodate larger numbers of people within an already crowded space.  In coming years, a major challenge will be to reduce the amount of diffuse pollution derived from urban areas, and from light industrial estates in particular.

The construction industry seeks to optimise it use of water throughout the lifecycle of the construction process – from the initial building phase, throughout the life of a piece of infrastructure, and during renovation or demolition.  A wide range of water related issues need to be considered, from designing for extremes, or control of normal levels of rainfall, runoff and ground saturation, managing or harvesting the flow of water from buildings and other built surfaces, to disposal of water used within constructed infrastructure – all the while protecting the natural environment, human health and other properties. NERC science is an integral part of the current drive towards green infrastructure and optimising benefits provided by the natural environment within the built environment.

 
 
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Sector: Planning and Construction
An estimated 1.6 million properties are at risk of groundwater flooding in England and Wales, and the resulting expense to people and businesses can be very significant. Following the EU Floods Directive in 2008, an assessment of the risk of groundwater flood risk is now a legal requirement across the UK.
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Sector: Planning and Construction
Following the floods of 2007, the Floods and Water Management Act 2010 provided a strategy for resolving issues of surface water flooding.
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Sector: Planning and Construction
There is the need for Improvement, in relation to increased lead times for predicting events, probabilistic forecasting and more accurate local-scale forecasts at a city or town level.
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Tags : flooding, radar, urban