FloodFree Case Study: Innovative City Solutions for Flood Protection in Perth

Client: Centuria Capital Group Location: William Street, Perth, Australia Product: FloodFree Project Overview Introduction As climate change intensifies, urban areas are becoming increasingly vulnerable to severe flooding. Cities around the world are adopting innovative flood protection solutions to safeguard communities and infrastructure. One such success story is the implementation of FloodFree Barriers — a leading […]

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NZ Govt Revamps Infrastructure Funding to Boost Housing

News / Claudia Clark

The New Zealand government has announced a comprehensive overhaul of infrastructure funding mechanisms to bolster housing development. This initiative, part of the “Going for Housing Growth” strategy, seeks to address critical challenges in land supply, infrastructure, and growth incentives. Transition to a Development Levy System Central to this reform is the replacement of the existing

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Addressing Infrastructure Challenges in New Zealand

News / Claudia Clark

New Zealand’s urban development is increasingly constrained by aging and overburdened infrastructure. Developers often face high costs, shared investment obligations, or outright restrictions due to capacity limitations. Expanding infrastructure requires careful planning, significant funding, and political stability at both local and national levels. Water reform remains a pressing issue. Councils and utilities are developing Water

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Protecting Auckland’s Infrastructure: Watersmart Implements FloodFree Barriers for Critical Pump Station

News / Watersmart Marketing

In late January 2023, Auckland experienced an unprecedented deluge as a summer’s worth of rain fell in a single day. The torrential downpour caused widespread flash flooding across the city, resulting in nearly $2 billion in property damage. Among the affected areas was the suburb of Wairau Valley, where floodwaters inundated a critical wastewater pump

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LowCO – decentralising water infrastructure eases stress

News / @angelac

When attending a number of conferences around the country over recent weeks, the challenge of funding to enable growth kept emerging as a core topic – and within it the issues of infrastructure stress, funding and resilience. Our attention was particularly grabbed by a point made with power by noted economist Shamubeel Eaqub at the

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AI Feature to Improve Safety

News / @angelac

AI technology is being used to improve public safety during the operation of automated flood barriers, such as deploying large hydraulically actuated tilting flood barriers. With an increase in flood mitigation projects, and more and more flood barriers being installed in public spaces, there have been significant design considerations around the safe operation of these

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Innovative Flood Barrier now protecting Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Everybody’s building

Blog / Simone Adams

Flood Barrier at Everybody’s bar and restaurant 21st Century solution for Auckland CBD heritage building now in place after floods took out transformer in 2022. Building owners of a central Auckland heritage office and entertainment building have installed an innovative self-raising flood barrier to prevent a recurrence of the flooding that took the building out

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