Texas Flood: Flood-resistant Structures for Enhanced Resilience

The attributes of resilience are relevant at all scales of buildings and urban habitat, but nowhere more so than with buildings exposed to storm surge and flooding caused by torrential rain events. What do you do when existing structures don’t meet current flood regulations, or your facility is historically flood-prone, and you want to mitigate future damages? How can you make your facility or campus more resilient to potential flooding events? Are low-impact cost effective solutions available? The design and implementation of efficient, low-impact, and cost-effective floodproofing systems is becoming increasingly commonplace as owners become more cognizant of the effects flooding has on their long-term investments, whether for a single facility or an entire campus, owners are implementing custom-designed active, passive and hybrid systems to best fit the parameters of the site, building(s), budget, and operations.