University Flood Management Project: Construction Industry Focus

This project proposal addresses flood management in the construction industry, focusing on buildings in flood-prone areas. The project aims to minimize re-occupation time after flooding events by incorporating flood resistance and resilience measures. It identifies problems such as inadequate approaches to reduce flood impacts and lack of recommendations within the industry. Proposed solutions include flood avoidance, resistance, resilience, and repairable measures. The best solution is identified as flood avoidance, with feasibility supported by research from Halpin, Lucko & Senior (2017) and Goh et al. (2016). The study also highlights the importance of flood resilience as an integrated approach, referencing Perera et al. (2016) and Cox et al. (2018). The methodology involves secondary research, utilizing existing data from research reports and similar documents, which is a cost-effective approach. The project includes a Gantt chart to track deliverables and evaluate project performance. The project is a comprehensive overview of flood management in construction.

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Project
Title
Flood Management
in Construction
Industries
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Project Brief
The new buildings in the flood prone areas are mainly designed
properly so that they can cope with all the flood waters as well as
helps to minimize the re-occupation time after the flooding event.
The project that supports all development in present guidance has to
be proposed that is to be incorporated in the flood resistance as well
as flood resilience.
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Identified Problem
The problem that is identified for this research proposal
includes the following:
◂ Problems identified in flood resilience.
◂ Proper appropriate approaches to reduce impact of flood in
buildings.
◂ Proper recommendations is not available in the
construction industry.
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Possible Solutions
There should be Flood Avoidance measure that is to be taken in
flood management.
There should be Flood Resistance to prevent the flood water.
There should be Flood Resilience that reduces the impact of
flood water.
There should be Flood Repairable measure that helps to repair
the elements that are destroyed in flood water.
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Best Solution Possible
The best possible solution for flood management is flood
avoidance measure that is to be taken while constructing the
buildings and the surroundings. This helps to avoid the
building to be flooded. The Flood Resistance also helps to
reduce risk by constructing the building in a way that helps to
prevent all the floodwater that enters the building and can
damage the building’s fabric.
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Feasibility Study
As per Halpin, Lucko & Senior (2017), the government state
that those particular areas are needed to be developed according
to policy of flood risk management.
Goh et al. (2016), states that there is flood avoidance measure
that is to be taken while constructing the buildings and the
surroundings. This helps to avoid the building to be flooded.
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Feasibility Study
According to Perera et al. (2016), the flood resilient in the
construction industries have become an essential part of
integrated approach. The flood resilient is used to manage the
flood risk management in the construction industry.
As per Cox et al. (2018), There are many processes that are
applied in the construction industry that limits the entering of
water in the construction property
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Critical Analysis
Secondary Research analysis is to be carried out in this
research proposal. The secondary research that is to be
established mainly includes the research materials that are
mainly published in the research reports as well as includes
similar documents.
This research method is a cost effective approach compared to
the primary research approach. This is because this research
method mainly uses all the existing data that are collected by
other authors in their research.
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Log Book
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Log Book Contd..
All the deliverables that are stated in the project proposal Gantt
chart. The Gantt chart states different deliverables that are to be
delivered at the time specified in the project list above.
From the Gantt chart, the performance of the project can also be
evaluated that states the project performance.
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References
Cox, D., Lonie, I., Carroll, D., & Rhodes, T. (2018). Large basins or small dams?: Reducing
flood risk to communities through design and construction. In Hydrology and
Water Resources Symposium (HWRS 2018): Water and Communities (p. 214).
Engineers Australia.
Goh, K. C., Goh, H. H., Omar, M. F., Toh, T. C., & Zin, A. A. M. (2016). Accidents
preventive practice for high-rise construction. In MATEC web of conferences (Vol. 47, p.
04004). EDP Sciences.
Halpin, D. W., Lucko, G., & Senior, B. A. (2017). Construction management. John Wiley &
Sons.
Perera, S., Babatunde, S., Adeniyi, O., & Ginige, K. (2016). Community stakeholder
perspective on construction industry-related needs and skills for enhancing disaster
resilience.
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