Passive Flood Barrier Protects Commercial Building

Installing a flood barrier that is based on the engineering principles of buoyancy creates a self-actuating flood barrier, rather than one requiring power or human intervention to deploy.

A buoyant or passive flood barrier will always deploy when needed. Once water can no longer drain into the storm water systems and starts to back up, the flood barrier rises.

Human intervention and power are not required to activate a passive flood barrier. AWMA offers a range of passive flood barriers.

Pictured is the entrance to a commercial building in Melbourne. This property had been flooded twice, at a significant cost to the owner. With a FloodFree Passive Tilting Flood Barrier now installed, the building is protected from water ingress during heavy rain events.

Nicci, the property owner, states, “Our underground carpark and basement entrance is below street level. It doesn’t take much rain to fall before it fills with water.

I witnessed two significant flood events in my street that cost me thousands of dollars, I wasn’t waiting for a third.

I worked with AWMA’s FloodFree team to have a flood barrier installed across the car park entrance that would automatically stop water ingress whenever it was needed, without me having to do anything. It is amazing how the barrier rises when needed, with the alarm system activated, always floating that bit higher than the water level in order to protect the property from rain water, storm water and street wash. Then, once the water recedes and the storm water systems clear, the barrier drops just as fast, reinstating building access.

Having that piece of mind that the flood barrier will deploy and protect the property as and when needed, has been invaluable.”