IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features New Civil Engineer (NCE) on ‘Learning from Hurricane Katrina’.
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Rob Hakimian writes for New Civil Engineer:
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has pioneered a more resilient approach to urban development that… could be a blueprint for the UK…..
‘The pumping system was built in some cases 100 years ago… it was not designed in the first place to manage so much water…’ [says Andy Sternad]…
When it came to rebuilding New Orleans to be more resilient… simply restoring the pumping system wasn’t going to make it futureproof……
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