Jon Robinson, Director – Water at global built environment consultancy AECOM takes an expert view of the Government’s National Flood Resilience Review and says innovative thinking is needed to protect communities, businesses and vital infrastructure from future flooding.

Ian Heijne, Technical Director for Flood Risk and Resilience at Atkins, one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, discusses the Government’s National Flood Resilience Review.

The deadline is approaching for submissions to the Call for Evidence under the National Flood Resilience Review launched by the government following Storm Desmond last December.

Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss has announced that the Government is to set up a National Flood Resilience Review to examine how to better protect the country from future flooding and increasingly extreme weather events.