Flood Barrier How do we define a flood barrier? Most of us would say any barrier which prevents water from getting somewhere we don't want it to go - and by that we generally mean we want to stop it getting to buildings and hence to us. Traditionally this has been done through civil engineering - walls, coastal defences, river defences, dams, containment areas - and engineers are rightly proud of their ability to prevent water getting near buildings. Indeed it could be argued that important cities in Europe (many major cities are on rivers) depend on good flood barriers - London of course, Amsterdam (and much of Holland), Rome, Paris and so on. European engineers are very good indeed at large scale flood defences. But floods no longer come mainly from rivers and the sea. They are often caused by heavy rain and winds, which combine with inadequate drains as well as swollen rivers and higher sea levels, to create sometimes unprecedented levels of flooding. And more dams, wall and levees don't work. Sometime civil defences even result in water leaving an area more slowly than it would otherwise. We need to extend our definition of a flood barrier to include direct defence of properties. That way, wherever water comes from it can't get in. But how to do that properly? In the past no-one spent much time considering it - rather we've hoped, or assumed, that water will not reach us at all. But now it does reach us no matter what we do, so there is a great need to work out how to stop water getting into buildings. Luckily Flodef exists solely to help property owners do that. Flodef works harder than anyone else at directly providing flood barriers to buildings, and has the widest range of techniques currently on the market. Flodef has commercial protection, domestic solutions, flood-proof new build techniques, and also specialises in Utility buildings and important civic buildings such as railway stations. On top of that Flodef always has a large number of supplementary products such as flood alarms, sumps and pumps, automatic airbricks and non-return valves. Last but not least it is currently developing other new barrier solutions for different property requirements. Flodef's surveyors are expert in identifying the best way to protect any buildings. Call Flodef at any time for professional advice on how to provide your own flood barrier for your properties, whether you own a cottage, a mansion, an office block warehouse or the electricity supply buildings serving millions of people. Flodef can help - defending buildings from flood is what we do.