Flooding on the home front: Boosting UK flood resilience brick by brick

Madeleine Cuff
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Construction experts BRE unveil 'flood resilient home', under new drive to change how the UK thinks about flood risk

Flooding is becoming an inevitable part of life in the UK. Climate change means wilder, wetter winters for this particular corner of northern Europe, spelling more storm surges and flash flooding events...

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