Resilience of leaky barriers in Natural Flood Management at the RRC conference
Zora van Leeuwen presented her poster “A Method for Assessing the Resilience of Leaky Dam Networks” online at the 21st River Restoration Centre conference.
Infrastructure
Presentation: National analysis of bridge scour failure risks
Professor Rob Lamb, Director of JBA Trust, gave a presentation on our collaborative research at the ITRC’s meeting…
Could housing associations do more to adapt to climate change?
Research supported by JBA Trust reveals that whilst housing associations are committed to the climate change mitigation agenda, specifically in relation to energy efficiency, there is much less of a focus on adapting to future climate change.
International expert meeting on bridge scour
An international expert meeting on bridge scour is taking place on 16-17 February 2015.
How well do flood defence models match reality?
Recently completed research compares flood risk assessment models with real flood defence failures…
Report on railway asset failures due to flooding and scour
Zora van Leeuwen has completed a summer placement with JBA Trust to investigate
Vulnerability of bridges to scour: insights from an international expert elicitation workshop
A research paper published in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences reports on the vulnerability of bridges to scour and the scientific uncertainties involved in estimating the probability of bridges failing as a result.
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