Storm Malik made landfall in Denmark on January 29, 2022, breaking records to be the strongest storm to hit the country in six years. It posed a great threat to central buildings including cultural heritage sites such as the National Viking Ship Museum located in Roskilde. The NoFloods water-filled flood barriers were deployed as a countermeasure to protect the iconic museum...
Storm Malik hit Denmark with wind gusts of hurricane strength from January 29, 2022, prompting the deployment of NoFloods Barrier; the world’s most reliable flood control barrier. About 1.8 kilometres of the temporary flood protection barriers from Environment Solutions were successfully deployed across 7 locations in Frederikssund Municipality and Jyllinge. In total, more than 4 km of flood control barriers (water tubes)...
In January 2022, the NoFloods inflatable flood barrier was deployed across three different locations throughout the Municipality of Roskilde, to protect against storm Malik that was hitting Denmark. The deployment was successful and no damages were recorded. Here are a couple of pictures that showcase the deployment of the NoFloods flood barrier. The video below shows the NoFloods inflatable barrier in action.
The NoFloods Barriers were yesterday successfully used to protect the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde from flooding. An evening storm was expected to raise the water level in Roskilde Fjord to about 1.3 meters, with a potential risk for the museum that is Denmark’s National Viking Ship Museum for the prehistoric and medieval period. The images below show the NoFloods...
The "MetsterMill" in Sint-Truiden, Belgium, was to undergo a thorough architectural renovation by contractor ABB&Z, on behalf of the owner. The mill wall on the Melsterbeek had to be rebuilt as the foundations were no longer adequate. In addition, the state of the mill basin was unknown e.g. was there a concrete floor present? In what condition was it in? Was there...
Solum, a private Danish company supplying a wide range of environmental services was asked to remove sediment and repair a culvert gate for the municipality of Frederikssund.
In the Maas River, there is a lock from the sea where ships are lifted from approximately 56 to 488 NAP (Normaal Amsterdams Peil). The lock has two gates; an old one with lifting doors and a modern one with point doors. There were issues with the pivots and the neck-pins were damaged, so the authorities (i.e. the Government and RWS) decided...
Find out how our Dutch partner successfully created a cofferdam to enable the repair of a slipway at a ship junkyard in Haarlem, Netherlands.
In June 2018, Romania was hit by heavy rains which increased the water levels in rivers and lakes, thus creating floods in most areas within the country. One of the cities where flooding was highly devastating was Bacău. There, water levels were high and it even exceeded 3 meters in some areas. This was an extreme case isolated to specific areas, whereas in...
With over 2.000 inhabitants per km², the Rhine valley is one of the most densely populated areas in Germany and thus highly susceptible to flooding, especially in cities. In November 2018, Environment Solutions accomplished a dense 3-day training for emergency flood protection, educating more than 30 specialists from the Civil Engineering Department of the City of Karlsruhe, Germany, to successfully...
