Jacqueline Diaz-Nieto - Research Student

Telephone: 25734
Room: G17 Kroto Research Institute

email : J.Diaz@sheffield.ac.uk

Research Group

Research Project

Brownfields, flooding and climate change

This project has two objectives, which are:
1. Show whether flood redevelopments can be designed to reduce the impacts of flooding while providing security to occupants and not mobilising contaminants and sediments.
2. Estimate the possible effects of climate change on the above.

The proposed project will use a modelling approach, based on one or more field sites, possibly in the Thames Gateway where SUBR:IM has research sites and good local contacts or sites currently researched as part of the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium. A range of earthwork designs will be simulated for affects on floods, impact on contaminant mobility, and assessed for their value and influence on redevelopment and land values.