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CIRIA:   Property flood resilience (PFR) is an important part of our response to flood risk. PFR includes measures that reduce the risks to people and property enabling households and businesses to reduce flood damage, speed up recovery and reoccupation of previously flooded properties. PFR measures should reduce the amount of water entering buildings (known as resistance measures), or limit the damage caused if water does enter a building (known as recoverability measures).

Developing a code of practice for property flood resilience

It was recognised by those managing flood risk and wanting to improve communities flood resilience that more was needed to be done to improve the confidence and certainty in the planning and delivery of PFR measures.

A Code of Practice (CoP) was developed to set the benchmark for those installing or constructing PFR and includes six standards specifying what should be achieved when delivering PFR. Supporting guidance was produced to explain how the standards could be met and explains how a six staged process aligned with the standards complies with the CoP and follows good practice.

Click here to access the code of practice