Simplified Dual-Drainage Modelling for Flood Risk Assessment in Urban Areas
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Exeter
Department Name: Engineering Computer Science and Maths
Abstract
Flooding is a major problem in the UK as recent high profile events in the summers of 2006 and 2007 have shown. In these events the damage to property and belongings ran into billions of pounds and a number of people were injured or lost their lives in these events. Therefore, predicting the location and severity of flooding is extremely important in preventing these losses. Current computer models for predicting flooding are highly accurate, but take a very long time to run even on the fastest computers. This project intends to use a technique known as cellular automata, a model based on the localised interactions of small cells, to simulate flooding in such a way that it will be possible to run complicated scenarios on a standard PC. The new approach will gain efficiency by making use of the fact that each cell can only 'see' the cells closest to it and the project will investigate the best ways of allowing each cell to communicate with its neighbours. The approach will be tested over a number of different flooding scenarios and compared with existing methodologies to demonstrate its accuracy and increased efficiency over standard methods.
Organisations
- University of Exeter (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Messina (Collaboration)
- National Taiwan University (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- CH2M HILL (Collaboration)
- Tsinghua University China (Collaboration)
- University of Central Florida (Collaboration)
- National Autonomous University of Mexico (Collaboration)
- National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) (Collaboration)
- Richard Allitt Associates (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Project Partner)
- United Utilities (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Thames Water (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- MWH (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Wallingford Software (Project Partner)
- Northumbrian Water Group plc (Project Partner)
- Jacobs (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Kelda Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Mouchel (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Environment Agency (Project Partner)
- HR Wallingford (Project Partner)
- Torbay Council (Project Partner)
- UK Water Industry Research (Project Partner)
Publications
Laméris DW
(2022)
No Evidence for Biased Attention Towards Emotional Scenes in Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).
in Affective science
Guidolin M
(2016)
A weighted cellular automata 2D inundation model for rapid flood analysis
in Environmental Modelling & Software
Zhang C.
High resolution urban flood modelling considering multiple information sources and urban features
in Environmental Modelling and Software
Webber J
(2019)
Comparing cost-effectiveness of surface water flood management interventions in a UK catchment
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Djordjevic S
(2014)
Quick and accurate Cellular Automata sewer simulator
in Journal of Hydroinformatics
Savic D
(2013)
Formulation of a fast 2D urban pluvial flood model using a cellular automata approach
in Journal of Hydroinformatics
Djordjevic S
(2020)
Case study of the cascading effects on critical infrastructure in Torbay coastal/pluvial flooding with climate change and 3D visualisation
in Journal of Hydroinformatics
Gibson M
(2015)
An investigation of the efficient implementation of cellular automata on multi-core CPU and GPU hardware
in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Bedford M
(2022)
Modelling flooding due to runoff from spoil heaps during heavy rainfall
in Mining Technology
Liu H
(2018)
Correction to: Assessing real options in urban surface water flood risk management under climate change
in Natural Hazards
| Description | We have developed a 2-dimensional flood modelling methodology that is at least an order of magnitude faster than existing approaches, but provides similar accuracy. This has been demonstrated on a number of case studies and via the industrial uptake of our findings (i.e., insurance industry, government agencies, water/infrastructure consultants). |
| Exploitation Route | This has already been happening as major insurance/re-insurance companies (e.g., Munich RE), government agency (e.g., Slovenian Environment Agency) and consultants (e.g., ICS Consulting) are using our tools to assess flood risk. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| URL | http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/cws/resources/caddies-framework/ |
| Description | ? Munich RE (http://www.munichre.com/en/homepage/index.html), the largest re-insurer in the world, have commissioned a customised version of our software to use it for the assessment of global flood risks. ? ICS Consulting (http://icsconsulting.co.uk/) and the University of Exeter have gained funding for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project that started in 2015 to customise our software for the use in infrastructure planning. ? The international insurance company RMS is adopting the software to analyse flood hazard layers for various geographies and urban areas so the Insurance companies can provide underwriting solutions. ? Catastrophe Engineering and Analytics is using the CADDIES-2D model to build up the flood modelling capacity for evaluating the flood insurance premium for their global clients. ? The Slovenian Environmental Agency (contact Marjan Moderc) are building an operational flood forecasting system using CADDIES-2D to provide a real-time flood prognosis with a 3 day lead-time at several flood prone locations in Slovenia. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | A single, scalable national assessment of flood risk (NaFRA 2)- Options Assessment |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | As a member of the Specialist Technical Input Group, Prof. Savic influenced the scope and provided recommendations for delivering a single, scalable assessment of flood risk. This recommendation formed the basis for the Environment Agency to develop a business case to secure funding to deliver the solution across England. The proposed solution is cost beneficial, technically feasible and affordable. NaFRA2 includes all sources of flooding and aims to be trusted and used by the EA partners and customers. One of the objectives is to be able to present flood risk so that it can be understood and provide consistent answers, to maximise the value of local detailed flood risk information that is used to inform operational decisions and also to be able to underpin long term investment decisions. |
| Description | CADDIES application for business case of Paignton secondary flood defence |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | CADDIES was applied to evaluate the flood impact to Paignton under current and future climate change scenarios. The results demonstrate the secondary flood defence plan will effectively protect over 1000 properties and 1700 residents from 1 in 200 year return period coastal overtopping flooding event in 50 years horizon, with the expect annual benefit more than £3 million per year. This has help Torbay Council to build a strong business case to apply for £3 million government funding for building the flood defence. |
| Description | (RECONNECT) - Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law |
| Amount | € 4,999,686 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 770142 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account |
| Amount | £39,656 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | EU H2020, RESCCUE |
| Amount | € 6,900,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | GA no 700174 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2016 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | Emergency flood planning and management using unmanned aerial systems (Prof D Butler) |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P02839X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | Flood impact assessment in mega cities under urban sprawl and climate change |
| Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Department | Global Innovation Initiative grant |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2015 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | H2020-DRS-201 (EU-CIRCLE) |
| Amount | € 7,283,525 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 653824 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 05/2018 |
| Description | H2020-SC5-2018 (FIWARE4Water) |
| Amount | € 4,997,945 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 821036 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | H2020-SU-SEC-2018 (aqua3S) |
| Amount | € 5,997,068 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 832876 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | KTP with ICS consulting |
| Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | KTP9721 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | Munich RE |
| Amount | £51,883 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Munich Re Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 02/2014 |
| Description | New Partnership Program for the Connection to the Top Labs in the World |
| Amount | $4,400,000 (TWD) |
| Organisation | Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | UK-China Urban Flooding Research Impact Programme |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Title | CADDIES Framework |
| Description | CADDIES is an open-source framework which aims to use cellular automata techniques and modern hardware with parallel processing capabilities for fast dual-drainage flood modelling (2D urban surface flows linked with 1D subsurface sewer flows). The CADDIES framework is divided into multiple components / software: Rapid and accurate reduced-complexity 2D urban surface flow model(s). Rapid and accurate reduced-complexity 1D sewer flow model(s). An application programming interface (API) to create fast cellular automata applications that run on modern hardware with parallel capabilities. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The efficiency and accuracy of CADDIES models have enabled the applications in large areas and for huge number of simulations. The CADDIES-2D model has be adopted by the industries for flood risk assessment continental scale and for the analysis of flooding caused by water main bursting in urban areas. It is also being used for flood simulations in mega cities. |
| URL | http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/cws/resources/caddies-framework/ |
| Description | 2014-16 RS-NSC Development of real-time flash flood mapping and early warning system |
| Organisation | National Taiwan University |
| Department | Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The expertise that the Exeter has can help the NTU to develop the proposed system efficiently, which will can contribute to the Taiwanese government to identify the regions could be affected by flooding in advance. The authority can notify the residents and take emergency measures to mitigate the flood impacts more precisely. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The challenging catchment and weather attributes in Taiwan provide an excellent case study to develop and test the real-time flood mapping model. Once the model is successfully applied to Taiwan, the system can be easily transplanted back to the UK because the natural environment is less critical than it is in Taiwan. This will improve the flood forecasting practice in the UK and reduce the flood impact. |
| Impact | CWS and NTU had intense interactions under the international collaboration project. Dr Albert Chen visited NTU in August 2014 and worked with Prof Tsang-Jung Chang and Dr Chia-Ho Wang on flood modelling. Prof Slobodan Djordejvic visited NTU in November 2014 to discuss about further collaboration plans. Prof Tsang-Jung Chang, Prof Yih-Chi Tan and Dr Yong-Jun Lin visited CWS in February 2015 to present the research activities have done in Taiwan. In May 2015, Exeter PhD students Kimberly Bryan and Arshan Iqbal visited Taiwan and worked with NTU team on their research programmes. Dr Tsung-Yi Pan, Dr Kai-Yuan Ke and Dr Chia-Ho Wang visited Exeter in July 2015 to discuss with Dr Albert Chen about the modelling results. They also attended the GII kick-off workshop and shared their experiences about flood modelling. Exeter PhD students Miriam Garcia and James Webber also visited Taiwan and worked with NTU team on their research programmes in November 2015. A joint paper has been published on Journal of Hydrology as a result of the collaboration. Chang TJ, Wang CH, Chen AS. (2015) A novel approach to model dynamic flow interactions between storm sewer system and overland surface for different land covers in urban areas, Journal of Hydrology, 524, 622-679 |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | 2015-17 RS-NSFC Hydrodynamic analysis of urban features with physical and numerical experiments |
| Organisation | Tsinghua University China |
| Department | Department of Hydraulic Engineering |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Centre for Water Systems (CWS) at the University of Exeter has developed a series of computer models (e.g. UIM and CADDIES-2D) to improve the performance of urban flood simulations. The UIM, output from SWERVE and SINATRA projects, introduces additional parameters in the coarse grid modelling to describe those features that affect the flood movement. To simulate the flooding more efficiently CADDIES-2D, output from CADDIES project, adopts simplified rules, which borrow ideas from a computer science field instead of solving hydraulic equations. CADDIES-2D also includes different hardware-based parallelising techniques that further accelerate the calculations. In the project, we aim to combine the strength of the UIM and the CADDIES-2D to develop a new model that can simulate urban flooding at large scale, from GII project, accurately and efficiently. The model will be applied to flood simulations in case study cities to identify the areas that are prone to flooding such that better adaptation measures can be developed to mitigate the flood risk. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Department of Hydraulic Engineering (DHE) at Tsinghua University has excellent facilities for physical hydraulic experiments. The laboratory has six flumes and one of them has been particular designed for flood simulations in urban environment. This provides a great chance to observe the flow dynamics influenced by different urban features. The observed data can then be used to calibrate and to validate the new model. |
| Impact | Dr Di Zhang visited CWS in July 2015 to work with Dr Albert Chen and Dr Guangtao Fu on flood model development. The comparison of modelling results with lab experiments were also discussed. Dr Zhang also joined the GII workshop and discussed about possible model applications. A joint paper has been submitted to the Hydroinformtics 2016. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | 2016 Meeting Prof Jianping Wu at Tsinghua University |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Department | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof Dragan Savic, Dr Guangtao Fu and Dr Albert Chen presented previous research at CWS and future collaboration opportunities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Jianping Wu introduced the transportation management model that Tsinghua University has developed. |
| Impact | Developed the idea to transportation management system that combines flood modelling and early warning, autonomous vehicle for emergency management. It will further extended to multi-disciplinary crisis management that cover other types of disasters. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | 2016 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Organisation | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Department | School of Engineering |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flood modelling developed in SWERVE (UIM), CADDIES (CADDIES), SINATRA (UIM-SIPSON) and GII (large scale modelling) were applied to develop the collaboration ideas |
| Collaborator Contribution | Flood modelling application in Mexico |
| Impact | The partner is interested in the CADDIES 2D model that we have developed and the current studies that we are working on the GII project. The team attended the GII Orlando workshop and agreed to exchange their tools with us and will adopt the CADDIES 2D model and GII methodology for the case study in Mexico. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | 2016 Visit to Hydrotech Research Institute (HRI), National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| Organisation | National Taiwan University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof Dragan Savic, Prof David Butler and Dr Albert Chen visited HRI and presented the CWS's recent research projects, including SWERVE, CADDIES, SINATRA, GII, PEARL, EU-CIRCLE and RESCUUE, and seek for further collaboration opportunities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Ming-Hsi Hsu, Prof Ke-Sheng Cheng and Dr Jing-Sung Lai presented the research in water engineering has been done in NTU. |
| Impact | New proposal submitted to MOST Taiwan |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | 2016 Visit to National Science and Technology Research Centre for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) |
| Organisation | National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Prof Dragan Savic, Prof David Butler and Dr Albert Chen visited NCDR Taiwan University and presented the CWS's recent research projects, including SWERVE, CADDIES, SINATRA, GII, PEARL, EU-CIRCLE and RESCUUE, and seek for further collaboration opportunities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Wei-Sen Li, Dr Jiun-Huei Jang briefed the missions and tasks of NCDR and presented the emergency decision support system. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | CH2M |
| Organisation | CH2M HILL |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I have visited CH2M for multiple times to share my research and expertise on flood modelling with CH2M, and gradually established long-term collaboration with them. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CH2M has supported my EPSRC fellowship application. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Flood impact assessment in mega cities under urban sprawl and climate change |
| Organisation | Tsinghua University China |
| Department | Department of Hydraulic Engineering |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | In the project, we aim to investigate the future flood impact as the consequence of the combination of urban development and climate change in three mega cities - London, New York and Beijing. Two of them are coastal cities facing sea level rise impact as well. An urban growth model will be developed using the satellite sensor data and the artificial intelligence techniques to detect the changing trends of urban sprawl and to project future urban growth scenarios in these three cities. The parameters derived from the urban growth model will be used in hydraulic modelling to assess the flood impact for the whole city in the 2050s. The state-of-the-art hydraulic models will be adopted to simulate flooding in complex urban environment with high spatial resolution. The multi-disciplinary collaboration will bring the experts from the UK, the US and China together to create an operational framework for analysing flood impact associated with various urban development conditions and climate change scenarios at the mega-city scale. The results can inform urban planners about the potential increase of flood risk such that better urban development strategies can be developed and implemented to avoid unexpected flood impact. The methodology developed from previous SWERVE, CADDIES and SINATRA projects were applied to the GII project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Stormwater Management Academy (SMA) at UCF was founded in 2003. UCF researchers have recently developed the multitemporal change detection techniques for land use and land cover change assessment in fast growing urban regions (Chang et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2009; Gao et al., 2012), streamflow forecasting under climate change impact (Makkeasorn et al., 2008), and flood impact assessment (Kao and Chang, 2011; Sun et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2009) based on Copula-based flood frequency analysis, and pattern recognition via empirical orthogonal function. Furthermore, a suite of low impact development technologies have been developed by SMA and evaluated in the context of flood mitigation impact. All the models/methods can be transferred directly to other parts of the world in support of simulating urban growth and assessing flood risk. For example, as a Co-Principal Investigator, Prof Chang has been working with a research team at the University of Hong Kong to carry out a project titled "Developing a Sustainable Hong Kong through Low Impact Development: from Science to Innovation Policy." Prof Chang is also the Principal Investigator of the ongoing NOAA-funded project "Coupling Risk and Resilience Assessment for Networked Sustainable Drainage Systems in a Coastal City under Climate Change Impact. He has been leading national and international research projects of water resources systems analysis and environmental risk assessment for more than two decades. The knowledge and experience within the SMA will create a complementary effect to fast flood impact assessment model development for mega cities in the project. The Department of Hydraulic Engineering at THU has developed some process based numerical models for predicting flow, sediment and contaminant transport processes in inland and coastal waters. Prof Binliang Lin is a professor of the Hydro-environmental engineering program at THU. He has been involving in the development and applications of first principle physics-based numerical models for assessing the flood hazards to buildings and vehicles. He will contribute his experience to modelling the flash floods in ultra-urban region. Dr Jian Sun is a lecturer at THU. He has been working on numerical model simulations with the aid of physical experiments of urban flood flows in urban regions. He will contribute to the development of computer models for large scale urban flood predictions. |
| Impact | The partnership will strengthen the networking among the UoE, UCF and THU. By working closely on the common problems that the three countries are facing, the team will develop a cohesive framework for assessing future flood impact in mega cities due to urban growth and climate change, which will contribute to better urban development strategies. The engagement will allow the partners across three countries to gain new knowledge and experience from each other in different social-cultural environments. We will arrange joint-dissemination of project knowledge in different national and international conferences and develop further research collaboration ideas for more new proposal submissions to several international programs, such as the Belmont Forum, HOROZON 2020, and the Lead Agency Initiative via NSF-EPSRC or NSF-NERC programs, to achieve a long-term sustainable partnership. The project outcome of this research will end up a possible book publication that may present the state-of-the-art flood impact assessment to the community. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Flood impact assessment in mega cities under urban sprawl and climate change |
| Organisation | University of Central Florida |
| Department | Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | In the project, we aim to investigate the future flood impact as the consequence of the combination of urban development and climate change in three mega cities - London, New York and Beijing. Two of them are coastal cities facing sea level rise impact as well. An urban growth model will be developed using the satellite sensor data and the artificial intelligence techniques to detect the changing trends of urban sprawl and to project future urban growth scenarios in these three cities. The parameters derived from the urban growth model will be used in hydraulic modelling to assess the flood impact for the whole city in the 2050s. The state-of-the-art hydraulic models will be adopted to simulate flooding in complex urban environment with high spatial resolution. The multi-disciplinary collaboration will bring the experts from the UK, the US and China together to create an operational framework for analysing flood impact associated with various urban development conditions and climate change scenarios at the mega-city scale. The results can inform urban planners about the potential increase of flood risk such that better urban development strategies can be developed and implemented to avoid unexpected flood impact. The methodology developed from previous SWERVE, CADDIES and SINATRA projects were applied to the GII project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Stormwater Management Academy (SMA) at UCF was founded in 2003. UCF researchers have recently developed the multitemporal change detection techniques for land use and land cover change assessment in fast growing urban regions (Chang et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2009; Gao et al., 2012), streamflow forecasting under climate change impact (Makkeasorn et al., 2008), and flood impact assessment (Kao and Chang, 2011; Sun et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2009) based on Copula-based flood frequency analysis, and pattern recognition via empirical orthogonal function. Furthermore, a suite of low impact development technologies have been developed by SMA and evaluated in the context of flood mitigation impact. All the models/methods can be transferred directly to other parts of the world in support of simulating urban growth and assessing flood risk. For example, as a Co-Principal Investigator, Prof Chang has been working with a research team at the University of Hong Kong to carry out a project titled "Developing a Sustainable Hong Kong through Low Impact Development: from Science to Innovation Policy." Prof Chang is also the Principal Investigator of the ongoing NOAA-funded project "Coupling Risk and Resilience Assessment for Networked Sustainable Drainage Systems in a Coastal City under Climate Change Impact. He has been leading national and international research projects of water resources systems analysis and environmental risk assessment for more than two decades. The knowledge and experience within the SMA will create a complementary effect to fast flood impact assessment model development for mega cities in the project. The Department of Hydraulic Engineering at THU has developed some process based numerical models for predicting flow, sediment and contaminant transport processes in inland and coastal waters. Prof Binliang Lin is a professor of the Hydro-environmental engineering program at THU. He has been involving in the development and applications of first principle physics-based numerical models for assessing the flood hazards to buildings and vehicles. He will contribute his experience to modelling the flash floods in ultra-urban region. Dr Jian Sun is a lecturer at THU. He has been working on numerical model simulations with the aid of physical experiments of urban flood flows in urban regions. He will contribute to the development of computer models for large scale urban flood predictions. |
| Impact | The partnership will strengthen the networking among the UoE, UCF and THU. By working closely on the common problems that the three countries are facing, the team will develop a cohesive framework for assessing future flood impact in mega cities due to urban growth and climate change, which will contribute to better urban development strategies. The engagement will allow the partners across three countries to gain new knowledge and experience from each other in different social-cultural environments. We will arrange joint-dissemination of project knowledge in different national and international conferences and develop further research collaboration ideas for more new proposal submissions to several international programs, such as the Belmont Forum, HOROZON 2020, and the Lead Agency Initiative via NSF-EPSRC or NSF-NERC programs, to achieve a long-term sustainable partnership. The project outcome of this research will end up a possible book publication that may present the state-of-the-art flood impact assessment to the community. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Visiting Researcher at University of Messina |
| Organisation | University of Messina |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof Giuseppe Aronica at University of Messina invited Dr Albert Chen as a visiting researcher to collaborate with his research team for one month. The topics discussed include urban flood modelling that has been done in FRMRC/2, SINATRA and CADDIES.; flood risk assessment and resilience strategies done in CORFU and PEARL. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The travel expenses and accommodation was covered by University of Messina. |
| Impact | One paper for Urban Water Journal One paper for Flood Risk 2016 |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | Licensing of CADDIES software |
| Description | CADDIES has been licensed to a company in the US for three years from Jan 2020. |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Copyrighted (e.g. software) |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | Not yet been reported. |
| Title | CADDIES |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CADDIES has been tested by an UK consultancy company. |
| Title | CADDIES application in Boston |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | An US constancy requested for using CADDIES pro version for flood simulations in Boston. |
| Title | CADDIES application in EU-CIRCLE |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CADDIES software is applied in mutliple case studies (Torbay, Cyprus, Dresden) in EU-CIRCLE project and integrated with the CIRP platform |
| Title | CADDIES application in Guatemala |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CADDIES was used in a student project for flood simulations in Guatemala |
| Title | CADDIES application in India |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CADDIES was applied to flood simulation in Bangalore in India |
| Title | CADDIES application in Khulna, Bangladesh |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CADDIES was applied to flood modelling in Khulna case study in EU-CIRCLE project, the knowledge derived from SINATRA project also contributed to the application |
| Title | CADDIES application in Millbrook |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CADDIES was applied to Millbrook case study in collaboration with Westcountry Rivers Trust. |
| Title | CADDIES application in Singapore |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simlation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | CADDIES has been adopted for flood simulation in Singapore. |
| Title | CADDIES application in Twin Cities |
| Description | CADDIES application |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | CADDIES was adopted by University of Minnesota in the Community Value of Golf Courses project to provide valuation of the "flood mitigation" ecosystem service (ES). |
| Title | CADDIES application in UK industry |
| Description | CADDIES is a fast 2D flood simulation model |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | An UK international company is requesting to use advanced CADDIES pro version for commercial applications. |
| Title | CADDIES application in Utah Univerity |
| Description | CADDIES application |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | CADDIES was applied to the research conducted by Utah University |
| Title | CADDIES application in the INVEST Project |
| Description | CADDIES application |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | CADDIES being tested in the Invest project, led by Stanford University |
| Description | "Introduction of CADDIES flood model" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mike Gibson delivered an introduction presentation of CADDIES. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyBS9DUFJDw |
| Description | 11 Community of Users |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen, Dr Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia and Dr Mike Gibson attended the 11th Community of Users workshop, organised by European Commission, to demonstrate the research outcome of EU-CIRCLE project, where the CADDIES model was applied to flood simulation. The Torbay case study was presented by Dave Stewart from Torbay Council, accompanied by the live demonstration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2886&v=BXP8l_8vQjM |
| Description | 12th International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering, Hydro-Science & Engineering for Environmental Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 200 participants attend the conference. The talk raised great interests regarding the NERC FFIR research and the CADDIES model from global the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://iche2016.hyd.ncku.edu.tw/ |
| Description | 18-19 April 2016 GII Beijing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | GII team presented latest research progress and outcomes to the partners and stakeholders in Beijing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://goo.gl/photos/sG1y5tBerBGk5e2k7 |
| Description | 2016 GII Orlando workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GII team presented latest research progress and outcomes to the partners and stakeholders in Orlando. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 2016 Prof Savic as Plenary Speaker at Hydroinformatics 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | More than 300 audience attended the Hydroinformatics conference. Prof Savic lecture has attracted colleagues for further interest for adopting the research tools/outcomes generated from iWIDGET, CADDIES, GII, Serious Gaming, and SIM4NEXUS projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.hic2016.org/html/plenary_speakers.php |
| Description | 21 April 2016 TTFRI-CWS workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Dragan Savic, Prof David Butler and Dr Albert Chen presented the CWS's recent research activities to seek further collaboration opportunities, including EPSRC/NERC projects: CADDIES, SINATRA, Safe & SuRe, Large Tidal Stream Farms, RAMB, STREAM CDT, WISE CDT, CHANCE and TWENTY 65 EU FP7/H2020 projects: iWIDGET, PEARL, SARASWATI, Water4India, EU-CIRCLE, RESCCUE and SIM4NEXUS TTFRI presented the recent reseach topics, including Optimal integration of the ensemble quantitative precipitation forecasts from TAPEX in Taiwan by Ming-Chang Wu The development of operational ensemble river flood forecasts and its application to bridge scour warning by Ya-Chi Chang Lunch Development of a smart flood warning system in urban areas: A case study of Huwei area in Taiwan by Sheng-Chi Yang Operational early warning systems for storm surge in Taiwan by Mei-Ying Lin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://goo.gl/photos/MWHQjsAYaM6AySiTA |
| Description | A webinar that CADDIES and SINATRA outputs were presented |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CADDIES and SINATRA research outcomes were presented by Dr Chen in the talk Data models for water management, a webinar event organised by FIWARE foundation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/3i1ZrIbhAHU |
| Description | APCC-ASEAN Disaster Management Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The APCC-ASEAN Disaster Management Symposium was organised by the APEC Climate Center (APCC) and more than 50 delegates, including disaster management officials and experts, from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the US participated in the event. The topic was 'Promoting and supporting scientific and technical research that will inform disaster management practice and policy' and it included four sessions: • Necessary bridging for successful Disaster Risk Reduction and Management • Current Disaster Risk Reduction policy creation process and required research efforts • Current Disaster Risk Reduction research efforts in the Asia-Pacific and processes for determining research topics • Bridging the gap between science and policy together Dr Chen presented the research findings from the related projects that the CWS has contributed to, including EU FP7 CORFU and PEARL, H2020 RESCCUE and EU-CIRCLE , EPSRC CADDIES, CREW/SWERVE, and FRMRC/FRMRC2, and British Council Global Innovation Initiative, to officials and experts in disaster management from ASEAN countries. Dr Chen also shared the work in the ongoing NERC FFIR programme and discussed potential future research to help policy makers. The audience identified that flash flooding as a key area where better science and technology are desperately needed to support decision makings in hazard mitigation. Research outcomes from FFIR programme will benefit ASEAN countries in building the capacity of flood forecasting that consequently will enhance early warning and reduce flood damage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.apcc21.org/notice/apccnewsView.do?lang=en&bbsId=BBSMSTR_000000000016&nttId=4906&pageIndex... |
| Description | An open-source GIS model for urban floods simulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Laurent Courty introduced the flood model developed in UNAM and discussed about the further collaboration with GII project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ZnCxs-nhdoRjMyRTFiNktyQ00 |
| Description | Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Beijing, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen presented the research to the practitioners in the municipal department for urban drainage design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen presented the research outcomes to the national urban planning institution in China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Congrats to our #FloodHack winners: teams LIVE (1st), FloodIt (2nd) and Interception (3rd) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | #FloodHack organiser announced the winners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/frathgeber/status/688836592040062976 |
| Description | Development of flood model for mega city scale modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen presented the hydraulic model CADDIES developed at University of Exeter for mega city scale flood modelling on 18 April 2016. Wide interested received from workshop attendees for asking to use the model. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Dr Chen as a keynote speaker and an expert in live debate at FloodExpo 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen was invited to give a keynote speech on flood modelling and risk assessment at FloodExpo 2017. The talk attracted over 100 audience, mainly from industry, and a series of questions regarding the methodology and applications were raised during the discussion. Dr Chen also participated in the expert panel live debate with over 50 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.thefloodexpo.co.uk/speakers/albert-s-chen/ |
| Description | Dr Chen presented on the China-UK Joint Workshop on Urban Flooding and Sponge Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chen presented flood modelling research outcome from CADDIES, GII and FFIR to over 50 audiences from the UK, China, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Sri Lanka. Intense discussion followed the presentation for the potential application of the methodologies in other countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ESPRIT (Embedding Strategic Planning In flood Resilient ciTies) Capacity Building Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ESSPRIT workshop was organised by CWS and Tsinghua University, China, supported by the Office of Spongy City Development of Suzhou City and Suzhou University of Technology. More than 100 participants attended the workshop, including the directors and officers of the Resident and Construction Office of Jiangsu Province, Suzhou Municipal Resident and Construction Bureau, Urban Planning Bureau, Water Bureau, Garden Management Bureau, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute, and practitioners from local consulting companies participated in the workshop. It received significant attention form the media in Suzhou and nearby areas. The Suzhou TV channel interviewed the experts and broadcasted the news regarding the workshop.UK and China. The models and work that CWS has developed were presented in the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Estimation and Prediction of Damage and Loss from Flood Disasters Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Estimation and Prediction of Damage and Loss from Flood Disasters Workshop was held for sharing the research outcome between CWS and Inha University, Korea. CWS team is invited to participate an international symposium in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | European Transportation Conferences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen attended ETC, discussed with attendees regarding climate impact on transportation network, and looked for future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Exeter Dr helps to create flood-awareness app |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The news is seen online, as well as the local newspaper, which reached more than 1000 readers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/business-daily-local-news/exeter-dr-helps-create-flood-awarenes... |
| Description | Flood expert helps create winning flood awareness app |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press release regarding the success in FloodHack. It was on the website of University of Exeter for public engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_492678_en.html |
| Description | Flood impact to Paignton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A video regarding CADDIES application in Paignton was produced and shared via Youtube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/gMfZPVGNw_M |
| Description | GIS in hydroinformatics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A lecture on GIS in hydroinformatics that introduce the GIS application in urban flood modelling within SINATRA and CADDIES projects. 20 students were in the lecture each year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018 |
| Description | Hamish Hall visited CWS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chen met Mr Hamish Hall at European Transportation Conference and invited him to give a seminar at University of Exeter. 30 academic and research students attended the seminar and discussed with Mr Hall about flood management. Profs Savic, Djordjevic and Dr Chen shared with Mr Hall the research projects that CWS is involving and laboratory experiment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Host Dapeng Yu from Loughborough University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Guangtao Fu and Dr Albert Chen discuss with Dapeng Yu on flood modelling at mega city scale that is related to CADDIES, GII and SINATRA projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Innovate in smart city sewer for disaster reduction, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen delivered a keynote to over 100 government officers, local authorities, industry practitioners related to urban flood management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2019 |
| Description | International workshop on urban flood modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SWERVE, CADDIES and SINATRA research results are presented at a workshop on Urban Flooding Research Challenges at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Joao Leitao visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joao Leitao visited CWS to discuss about the collaboration in CADDIES applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Keynote talk at ESPRIT (Embedding Strategic Planning In flood Resilient ciTies) Capacity Building Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen delivered a keynote at the workshop in Suzhou, China, that more than over 100 delegates, including directors and officers of the Resident and Construction Office of Jiangsu Province, Suzhou Municipal Resident and Construction Bureau, Urban Planning Bureau, Water Bureau, Garden Management Bureau, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute, and practitioners from local consulting companies participated in the workshop. It received significant attention form the media in Suzhou and nearby areas. The Suzhou TV channel interviewed the experts and broadcasted the news regarding the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/cws/news-events/news/title_679640_en.html |
| Description | Lib Dem Spring Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Association of Lib Dem Engineers and Scientists' invited Dr Albert Chen to talk about flooding research on the Lib Dem Spring Conference 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.slideshare.net/albert_cws/2016-citizen-participation-in-flood-risk-assessment |
| Description | Meeting with global reinsurance company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chen presented SWERVE, CADDIES and SINATRA research outcome to an international reinsurance company and discussed about future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Network Rail Drainage Challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Network Rail and other academic colleagues regarding the drainage issues that require further research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participating in Math Foresees workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen was invited to attend in Math Foresees workshop and shared the research from SWERVE, CADDIES, and SINATRA with the participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation "Analysing Flood Impact to Urban Services" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CADDIES was used in the study of the presentation that Dr Barry Evan delivered to the ESSPRIT workshop that over 100 audience attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation "Analysing the cascading effects on critical infrastructure in Torbay coastal/pluvial flooding with climate change" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CADDIES was used in the study of the presentation that Dr Mike Gibson delivered to the ESSPRIT workshop that over 100 audience attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Water Control Room Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen was invited to present the research at the Water Control Room Forum, organised by Southwest Water. The attendees include the Water Control Room teams from water companies in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentations to Industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meetings with multiple industry companies were held to demonstrate CADDIES applications and to discuss further collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presntation "CADDIES - Fast cellular automata models for 2D flood simulation" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mike Gibson introduced CADDIES in ESSPIRT workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Prof Dragan Savic as the Keynote Speaker at FloodExpo 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Savic presented the key findings in urban flood modelling and 3D visualisation from CADDIES, GII, SINATRA, Serious Gaming, and SIM4NEXUS projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.thefloodexpo.co.uk/speakers/professor-dragan-savic/ |
| Description | Prof Savic presented on the China-UK Joint Workshop on Urban Flooding and Sponge Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Savic presented research in CADDIES, GII and FFIR to over 40 audiences from the UK, China, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Sri Lanka. There was interesting discussion about the methodologies in sponge city applications . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/cws/news-events/news/title_598626_en.html |
| Description | RAEng Frontiers of Engineering for Development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen was invited to attend RAEng Frontiers of Engineering for Development and shared the research from SWERVE, CADDIES, SINATRA and GII with the participants. A joint proposal was submitted to RAEng, following the discussion with the participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Research outcomes presented in postgraduate lectures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research outcomes and knowledge from SWERVE, SINATRA, CADDIES and GII projects were adopted in Water Management in Developing Countries lectures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Research outcomes presented in undergraduate lectures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research knowledge and outcomes from SWERVE, SINATRA, CADDIES and GII projects are presented at Water Resources and Pollution Control |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Royal Academy of Engineering, Rebuilding a Resilient Kerala after the Floods UK-India workshop, Kerala, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen was invited to deliver a talk regarding the research done in CWS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at RAE UK-India workshop - Urban flood modelling and resilienceUrban flood modelling and resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen delivered a talk at the Royal Academy of Engineering, Rebuilding a Resilient Kerala after the Floods UK-India workshop, Kerala, India |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Team LIVE win 1st place at the 2016 Hackathon! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | JBA Consulting's website report the success of the LIVE team in FloodHack 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.jbaconsulting.com/news/team-live-win-1st-place-2016-hackathon |
| Description | The International Symposium on New Paradigm for Damage Estimation on Natural Disasters, Seoul, South Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Slobodan Djordjevic and Albert Chen were invited to deliver keynote lectures at The International Symposium on New Paradigm for Damage Estimation on Natural Disasters, Seoul, South Korea. They also joined the expert panel to discuss about urban flood risk research. Over 100 participants attended symposium and interests were raised after the event for seeking further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Tsinghua University, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen presented the outcome from the research projects to the academic group in School of Environment, Tsinghua University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UFMRM WG webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen is coordinating Urban Flood Modelling and w |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7405941/7405941-6257915019120517124 |
| Description | Unblocking Innovation: Launching the HIF's Surface Water Drainage Challenge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | The Humanitarian Innovation Fund's invitation me to participate the Unblocking Innovation: Launching the HIF's Surface Water Drainage Challenge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unblocking-innovation-launching-the-hifs-surface-water-drainage-chall... |
| Description | University of Exeter International Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around 30 international undergraduate students from a variety of backgrounds. Four hours lectures regarding flood modelling, risk assessment and management that raised intense discussions on the topics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Modelling and Risk Management Working Group, IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Albert Chen's experience and knowledge from SWERVE, CADDIES, SINATRA and GII projects made him the coordinator of UFMRM WG. The UFMRM WG is organisng monthly webinars to share the knowledge and research outcomes among the colleagues. These events have attracted global audiences and formed further collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7405941 |
| Description | Water Resilience Challenge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Water Resilience Bootcamp was held to bring together top academics, innovators and entrepreneurs, to tackle some of the key issues in managing water risks and building a resilient world. Dr Albert Chen presented the work from the CWS research team and facilitated the discussion with the participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.impactlab.org.uk/events/view/take-on-the-challenge-water-resilience |
| Description | Webinar related to CADDIES application |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CADDIES was adopted by Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation for assessing flood impact in urban area. The result was presented by CMCC researcher Dr Roberta Padulano in a webinar on the topic of "Urban flood modeling in a changing climate" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Webinar talk on CADDIES |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mike Gibson presented CADDIES on UFMRM webinar that raised many discussions from participants. About 20 people participated in the webinar and the video was shared on Youtube and has been viewed over 40 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8AtU_F_-o |
| Description | Webinar talk on Hexgon CADDIES application |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Joao Leitao presented the development of Hexgon CADDIES on UFMRM webinar that about 20 people joined the event. The recorded video was shared on Youtube and has been viewed over 160 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lfuNHmsWLg |