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Finding a solution in Floodgate that mirrors our celebration of British innovation and engineering has been immensely satisfying – The Floodgates performed exactly as we hoped, and we couldn’t be more pleased.

St Lawrence’s Church in Appleby was seriously flooded during Storm Desmond in December 2015, along with a lot of the town. After the cleanup, it was decided to use Floodgates to protect the Church against future flooding.

We're often asked to justify why our Floodgates are "only" 68cm high and can't we make taller barriers to cope with deeper floodwater. We also get asked whether it would be better to fit a flood-proof door, so we will attempt to address both these issues here. Why...

Heron & Brearley own 36 pubs and 15 Spar convenience stores, some of which are on garage forecourts, across the Isle of Man. December 2015 saw extensive flooding as a result of a series of four winter storms battering the island one after the other, culminating...

After the unprecedented floods in the summer of 2007, the government set up a review headed by Sir Michael Pitt. In his Interim Report, Sir Michael concluded, “that the Government should establish a systematic, coordinated, cross-sector campaign to reduce the...

The International School of Tanganyika (IST) is an independent, private, not-for-profit day school located on two campuses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. IST offers rigorous academic programmes coupled with a wide range of extra-curricular activities serving students...

St Austell Brewery is an independent family owned brewery founded in 1851 and still growing. As well as the core business of brewing fine ale - the business owns and operates a network of 170 pubs, inns and hotels stretching from the Scilly Isles to Bristol. Many of...