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Natural hazards – unnatural disasters
• Floods are natural hazards, but
unnatural disasters are the deaths
and damages that result from
human acts of omission and
commission.
• Every disaster is unique, but each
exposes actions by individuals
and governments that, had they
been different, would have
resulted in fewer deaths and less
damage.”
Prevention is possible.
World Bank Report 2010
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Joint Chambers Breakfast Seminar on Flooding
Hotel Grand Millennium, Sukhumvit
Aquafence AS
Marcel Wismer, Sept 25 th 2012

Many flood protection solutions available …
Permanent / semi-permanent walls
Fully mobile walls
Brick walls Post / dambar system Big bags / sand bags Aquafence mobile wall
• Every system has pros- and cons; every system has trade-offs
– Low-cost system = higher risk of failure?
– Good enough vs. best-in-class?
– Permanent, cheap and restrictive vs. mobile, more costly and fully adaptable?
• No perfect solution: every user has a risk / reward profile
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What is AquaFence ?
A revolutionary non-fill, mobile
Flood Protection System
•Marine-grade panels form a mobile wall
•Long life cycle - all materials are fully
waterproof. No maintenance needed
•Mobile with rapid deployment - 1000x
faster to set-up than sandbags
•Reusable - up to 80 times
•No foundation/piling needed - uses
water as a stabilizer
•No fill material needed (sand, water, ..)
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What people forget …
• It is not good enough to have a
flood protection system and feel
safe for all times
• What if ….
– Your initially trained staff have left
your company ?
– Your staff cannot remember what
they have learned ?
– Your staff panic during a crisis ?
– Your flood protection system is
not functional after many years ?
– Your flood protection system is
not stabile enough and fails?
New Orleans flood protection system breach
during Hurricane Katrina (2005)
A flood protection system must be functional, and cannot collapse
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Achieving piece of mind …
• Solutions to keep your assets safe
– Regular staff training
• 1-2x per year
– Flood protection emergency drills
• 1x per year
– Regular maintenance of flood
protection equipment
• 1x per year
– 3 rd party certification of flood
protection system
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Our ongoing certifications
• Full performance certificate from the German
Institute of River and Coastal Engineering,
Hamburg University of Technology
• On qualified United Nations supplier list, which
mandates very high standards for product quality
and product reliability
• Ongoing testing / certification at the US Army
Corps of Engineers
• Ongoing vendor list certification from FM Global,
one of the worlds largest US based commercial /
industrial property insurance organizations
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We are ready …. Are YOU ???
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