Do
buildings require antidote…?
Twenty years ago, if you were a
flood authority and the responsibility of building a dam on the river has been
given to you then as an engineer you must have thought of having a
concrete and steel flood barrage which sits there quietly until there is a
flood. You are asked by any engineer to design a solution to town centre
flooding, they would most probably design the solution as you thought. But as
we know building any structure at any place is a long time process. There are
many factors in the environment which affect the construction in many ways. Not
only does this take a long time to plan and design and build but also this is
expensive. This solution does not always work when the flood happens! So, is
there any other alternative for such a problem…?
As per the suggestions by Prajukti’s structural design consultants, one approach can be like
creating solutions that use the power of distributed resources which will
deliver multiple benefits which effective outputs, in contrast to fixed assets
dedicated to a single issue risk. By following this way, solutions will no
longer belong to one domain of one entity, such as a water organisation, but
evolve in response to a changing environment by involving multiple entities in
the market like landowners, solutions providers, stakeholders, funders and
mainly the customers.
Modelling distributed solutions
In Prajukti’s consideration,
the use of technology in the right plays a very important role. Like when the
prediction of the flood is done by scientists and there is a possibility of
flooding then at that time the appropriate solution can be implemented
according to the area. The good team is required to carry out all the
functionality effectively that should be modelled a synchronised network of
upstream flood retention areas and comes up with the solution with digital
technologies and should have the talent to manage them. These include programs
for a couple of things like rapid flood prediction and also flow optimisation
across retention areas.
Predictions can help a lot when
there is a need. The flood prediction tool comes up with good results. It
has up to 87% accuracy even for this proof-of-concept model. When rain is
falling then the tool is taken into consideration and if the concentration of
water is more then it's detected that when the rain will impact a river. It
includes the machine learning technology which works on the database. This tool
has ideally absorbed 20 years of historical rainfall and flood data at reading
intervals of approximately 15 minutes, and capable of delivering the results
with only three years of data.
Another approach can be the
optimisation tool which uses LMS (Least Mean Squares) optimisation techniques
to create adaptive software which is able to identify how to distribute
water between upstream storage ponds as well as in a river to achieve optimally
emptying and refill times quickly. This tool not only provides a more effective
and optimized flood solution to traditional infrastructure and manual methods,
but also it is able to reduce the size of retention volumes needed. This tool
also allows the system to reset itself in preparation for the next storm or
flood.
Prajukti is one of the structural engineering firms in
India which is doing good in the construction consulting business. Visit https://prajukti.com/ to
have a look at Prajukti's engineered buildings.
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