Following the Government’s announcement to provide grants to help protect properties from flooding, we take a look at Enzygo Hydrology Team’s role in flood protection and how you could protect your property. Scott Dawson, senior hydrologist of Enzygo, discusses. Flood Protection from a Local Perspective As part of...
Learning how to live with floods The UK can no longer rely on ever-larger flood defences for protection against heavy rains that can now fall almost anywhere at any time. The alternative is learning how to live temporarily, but regularly, with water. Which is why we...
Daniel Alstead, associate director of Hydrology at Enzygo, talks about the importance of getting your site drainage right and what to look out for when doing the planning for new site developments. What do you do at Enzygo? Enzygo Ltd are an independent, multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy with...
Matt Travis, Director at Enzygo, shares some of his experiences in unlocking complex flood-related development problems and how to avoid development pitfalls. What do you do at Enzygo? Enzygo is a multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy specialising in providing technical services to the built environment sector (https://enzygo.com/our-services/). We work...
Rain or shine as 2019 becomes 2020? Forecasting the weather is a tricky business. If asked whether the next 12 months through winter 2019 and on into 2020 will be very hot, very cold, very wet or very dry, I have to be honest and say...
Strict rules now protect key coastal and estuarine wetland conservation sites from nutrient pollution – rules that many developers fear could threaten housing targets in the Southeast, and potentially the rest of England. Are there sustainable solutions to this complex problem? As I would like...
The enterprising Victorians lacked two of today’s greatest environmental innovations as they painstakingly built 550-miles of pioneering new sewer under London to prevent any repetition of the “Great Stink” of 1858 caused by a stagnant River Thames in a summer heatwave. The development of highly-efficient large-scale...
This year’s UK weather has been a rollercoaster ride. And no-one yet knows for certain whether 2018 will end with a white fairy-tale Christmas, a winter of intense storms, or a long cold and dreary combination of rain, sleet, snow and flooding. However, we do...
Batteries are going to change our lives. Not disposable AAA Duracell Bunny-type batteries. But big batteries storing spare solar farm or North Sea wind energy and iron out peak time grid fluctuations, plus small batteries holding locally-produced low-cost energy for green homes and electric cars. Learning...
You planned for flooding. But are water shortages on the heels of terrible spring weather too difficult to cope with? Freezing ‘Beast from the East’ temperatures lasted until March followed by a heatwave in May. Is this a one-off crisis or an opportunity, and will...