North Yorkshire-headquartered Flood Technology Group has further expanded its team by making two key appointments, as well as establishing its first dedicated manufacturing base.
A specialist in the field of flood adaptive technology, the company has confirmed its Flood Adaptive Platforms will be assembled at its new manufacturing premises on Gowdall Road in Snaith, East Yorkshire.
Twelve years in the making, the multi-purpose Flood Adaptive Platform is a mechanical jack system designed to detect and react to flood conditions by automatically elevating above the rising water.
It has already been applied to both mobile homes and modular buildings but can be used to protect a range of infrastructure across many different sectors, from utilities and energy to commercial and transportation.
Flood Technology Group was founded by North Yorkshire resident Andrew Parker one year ago.
David Kinsley will take up the role of head of assembly & installation at the company, and Peter Hall has been appointed project manager. Both will be based at the firm’s new manufacturing site.
They will be responsible for the assembly and installation process as the business rolls out its Flood Adaptive Platforms for holiday homes, lodges and caravan businesses across the UK and beyond.
In January of this year, Flood Technology Group reported that it 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.
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.
The business is bringing these products to market, with a string of projects at holiday parks across the UK in the pipeline.
Simon Gilliland, chief executive, said: “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.
“Around 20,000 caravan pitches in the UK are not even being used due to flood risk, according to data from the National Caravan Council.
“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.”
