Flood Protection as a Service

Why buy flood barriers when you can hire them?

Choose your FPaaS subscription plan
Select your barrier(s) from a centrally held resource
Agree your “trigger point”
Work with your chosen deployment partner
Wrap up, clean, dry and return to storage

FPaaS (Flood Protection-as-a-Service)

The problem/challenge

(Severe) flooding is becoming more prevalent Budgets are being squeezed
Capital schemes can take up to 6 years with planning, consents & installation
Rural communities often fail the cost: benefit ratio
There are more schemes required than available money

FPaaS – Time for a Rethink!

The SES in rural Australia is largely volunteers and runs separate to fire & rescue (CFA?)

State budgets are tight

Purchased equipment is not needed everywhere at the same time

Purchased equipment spends most of its life in storage

So, why buy – why not hire the products with a deployment service?
Lease purchase for equipment – as a shared resource
Budget moves from CapEx to OpEx

FPaaS Delivery Model*

*various plans available depending on risk appetite

Low recurring fee with high call out $
High recuring fee, low $ call out with priority service
Et al
Survey all locations – walk the flood defence line
Decide on suitable products, based on footprint, height, available resource
Choose installation partner(s) and train them
Install flood sensors or sign up to alerts
Decide on trigger point(s)…

Design and Planning

Service level agreement

Fixed term contract

Preparations inc. training

Readiness (stand-by)

Call out

Temporary & Demountables

Used where funding for permanent solutions is not secured or justified (cost/benefit ratio)
Needs pre-installed footings
Can go high & very long (kms)
Requires alert to decide to deploy
Needs lots of personnel
Needs security 24/7

Water filled Flood Barriers

They need a lot of water to fill them, but they can be stacked high and run for many kilometres to help protect communities and homes from rising flood waters.

Frame Type Flood Barriers

Frame barriers are easy and quick to install from single spans of 1 or 2m up to many kilometres. The barriers range in height from 750mm to 2.4m and have custom corner and angle units to cope with most deployment scenarios.

Choosing flood barriers that have been accredited to an independent test scheme such as BS851188 or FM2510, will provide users with added confidence of their performance in the most severes floods.