Less than two years since its launch, Yorkshire-based Flood Technology Group has achieved a brace of high profile national award wins in less than a month, cementing its position as a leader in the emerging field of flood adaptive technology.
On Thursday 3 July, the fledgling business was named New Civil Engineer’s ‘Technology Solutions Provider of the Year’ for 2025 at an awards ceremony at the Hilton Bankside hotel in London, which was fiercely contested by innovators from across the UK. Held annually, the New Civil Engineer Awards celebrate firms that are improving the construction and engineering industry through innovative equipment and products.
Flood Technology Group was one of three shortlisted finalists contesting the ‘Technology Solutions Provider of the Year’ category, and was chosen as the overall winner by a panel of independent judges, who said: “The judges were impressed by a well thought-out and cost-effective solution to a major flood risk challenge. The solution demonstrated broad applicability — from mobile housing to national infrastructure — and addressed flood prediction alongside key business considerations, such as insurance and finance.”
News of this latest award win comes less than a month after Flood Technology Group was named ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2025 Park Home Champions Awards for its ground-breaking climate resilience projects at UK holiday and and residential parks. Its team is currently working with caravan, lodge and park owners at multiple sites, helping them future-proof their homes and businesses against the growing flood risk that we face due to climate change.
Simon Gilliland, Chief Executive of Flood Technology Group, said: “We are absolutely overjoyed to have been recognised at a national level for being leaders and innovators in our field. Both of these awards are a testament to the hard work of our amazing team and, of course, the indomitable Andrew Parker. Andrew spent more than a decade developing and testing the innovative flood adaptive technology that he invented, before founding Flood Technology Group in November 2023 to bring his products to market. I’m absolutely thrilled for him that his hard work and determination has been recognised on such a prestigious, national platform.”
Andrew Parker, founder and Managing Director of Flood Technology Group, said: “These are huge awards for our small but amazing team. Everyone has given up something to get us where we are today, from their time and support to leaving well paid, secure jobs at a point when there was no guarantee that we’d be able to achieve commercial success with our products.”
Andrew Parker designed the ground-breaking Flood Adaptive Platform after witnessing the devastation that the extensive flooding experienced in Yorkshire and other areas of the country in 2012 caused to his friends and family. Andrew, whose background is in domestic construction, spent more than a decade honing his ideas and testing his products, working with experts at the University of Hull’s Flood Innovation Centre, the University of Liverpool and the HR Wallingford hydraulics research laboratory near Oxford.
In 2023, he formed Flood Technology Group to bring his products to market and was soon joined in the business by Simon Gilliland, a leading flood risk expert who is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of Defra’s Property Flood Resilience Roundtable.
Flood Technology Group has its headquarters at Great Heck in North Yorkshire, as well as a manufacturing site at nearby Snaith, just over the East Yorkshire border. Its rapidly growing team is currently rolling its groundbreaking Flood Adaptive Platform and Flood Early Warning System technology out to the UK holiday and residential park sector, where there’s been huge demand from customers in riverside and coastal locations.
However, Flood Technology Group’s products have also been successfully applied to modular buildings and the team recently announced that it would soon be starting work on its first residential project at a riverside site here in the UK. They have vast potential to protect people, property, assets and infrastructure across multiple sectors, both in the UK and globally.
