A year on from its launch, Flood Technology Group has further expanded its growing team by making two key appointments, as well as establishing its first dedicated manufacturing base at Snaith in East Yorkshire.
A leader in the field of flood adaptive technology, the company revealed this week that its ground-breaking Flood Adaptive Platforms will be assembled at its new manufacturing premises on Gowdall Road in Snaith. Flood Technology Group’s headquarters is located just a few miles away in the nearby village of Great Heck. Its founder, Andrew Parker, lives locally and is responsible for designing and creating the company’s innovative flood adaptive products, having witnessed first-hand the devastation that flooding causes.
It has also been announced that David Kinsley will take up the role of Head of Assembly & Installation, and Peter Hall has been appointed Project Manager. Both will be based at the new manufacturing site in Snaith. They will be responsible for the assembly and installation process as the Flood Technology Group rolls its unique Flood Adaptive Platforms for holiday homes, lodges and caravans out to tourism businesses across the UK and beyond, helping them future-proof their activities against climate change.
In January of this year, it was revealed that Flood Technology Group had created the world’s first fully flood adaptive holiday lodges by retrofitting its Flood Adaptive Platform to lodges on a riverside site in Warwickshire. This exciting development confirmed that the company is able to support the safe development of prime plots of land next to bodies of water and in areas of flood risk. Both new build and retrofit tested versions of the Flood Adaptive Platform are available to suit all types of mobile homes, caravans and holiday lodges, and Flood Technology Group is now bringing these products to market, with a string of projects at holiday parks across the UK already in the pipeline.
Twelve years in the making, the multi-purpose Flood Adaptive Platform is a groundbreaking mechanical jack system that’s designed to detect and react to flood conditions by automatically elevating above the rising water. It has already been successfully applied to both mobile homes and modular buildings but can be used to protect a vast range of infrastructure across many different sectors, from utilities and energy to commercial and transportation.
Simon Gilliland, Chief Executive of Flood Technology Group, explained: “The Flood Adaptive Platform’s enormous potential to protect people, property and infrastructure is limitless but, since Flood Technology Group was launched last November, we’ve had a huge amount of interest from the UK holiday park sector. Ultimately, this has been the driver behind our decision to bring our Flood Adaptive Platform for holiday homes, lodges and caravans to market, although we will, of course, be rolling this game-changing technology out to other sectors in the near future.
“There are approximately 365,000 caravan holiday homes and an additional 100,000 residential park homes in the UK, with around 73,000 holiday caravans and 10,000 park homes at moderate or significant risk of flooding. In the region of 20,000 caravan pitches in the UK are not even being used due to flood risk, according to data from the National Caravan Council.”
He added: ““We believe the Flood Adaptive Platform has an important role to play in helping the owners of holiday homes, caravans and lodges to future-proof their homes and businesses against the growing threat of climate change, as well as opening up new areas for development.”
A leader in the field of climate resilience, Flood Technology Group has rigorously tested its Flood Adaptive Platform technology in flood environments, in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and HR Wallingford.
