"With a cost to insurers of around £3 billion, the summer floods have engendered the largest natural catastrophe insurance loss ever recorded in the UK."
ABI, 2007
"The scale of the surface water flooding problem faced in summer 2007, and the growing likelihood of similar flooding in the future means there is a clear need for action."
The Pitt Review (Interim)
"Insurers that invest in flood risk assessment technologies have saved tens of millions of pounds by careful risk selection."
Dr. Justin Butler
"Flooding is 30 times as costly as getting burgled and this thief takes everything in its path.”
V1 Magazine - 19 june 2009 - The high severity and increasing frequency of major flood events worldwide has driven flooding up the political and risk management agenda. David Martin, Technical Manager of flood risk assessment and modelling consultants Ambiental talks about how their flood modelling system, Flowroute™, helps address some of these issues...
The Independent - 20 June 2009 - More than 10 million people are thought to be living in homes which are at risk of flooding, according to government figures issued yesterday. The new National Flood Risk Assessment figures now suggest that more than five million homes are at risk, twice the level that was previously estimated...
Ambiental Press Release - May 2009 -Leading flood risk assessment company Ambiental has developed a new method of flood modelling and mapping using cloud computing. This technology makes it possible to create national-scale flood risk data with increased detail and accuracy...
Water Active - February 2009 - Dr Justin Butler, Managing Director of flood risk company Ambiental, explains how to protect sites from flooding and meet OFWAT's new standards...
Water & Wastewater - January 2009 - Ofwat has demanded flood risk assessment be included in April's five-year exercise. Justin Butler, managing director of Ambiental Technical Solutions, explains the assessment and protection measures utilities need to take...