RIBA: Climate Change Toolkit: Designing for Flood Risk

Designing for Flood Risk

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This is the seventh of eight components of Climate Change Tools, a package of guidance developed by the RIBA to encourage architects to engage with the issue of climate change, and to help them both mitigate and adapt to the challenges of global warming.

Designing for Flood Risk

gives users a general understanding of the main issues that flood risk gives rise to, provides an overview of current policy and legislation, and outlines potential design responses.