UK Flood Defence

After the recent floods around the UK, the following project shows how you can avoid having a potential eyesore of a flood barrier into a pleasant looking wall along the public footpath.

Benwick Flood Defence Project

Brick Panels were contracted to supply and install a brick cladding finish to a flood defence wall in Cambridgeshire. The following pictures tell the story of how first the steel piles were installed to form the flood barrier. We then welded steel rails along the length of the wall on both sides to give a suitable structure to fix the panels to. Once fixed the panels were completed with the jointing bricks and then the whole of the wall was pointed using a standard sand cement mortar mix.

When the pointing was finished the wall was topped off using powder coated metal trims which were sealed to prevent water ingress. Gates and fence panels were added to complete the installation with a newly laid tarmac footpath alongside.

The wall is over a half of a mile long and has made a potential eyesore of a flood barrier into a pleasant looking wall along the public footpath.

  • Rails were fixed to the flood defence
  • The rails were fitted on both sides of the piled sheets
  • The Sheets were leveled to the required height
  • The fixing rails were various heights due to the land height
  • Some of the rails needed to go around corners
  • The panels were laid out along the wall
  • The boards were fixed to the rails
  • Fence posts were fitted to hold the fence panels
  • Panels are fitted on both sides of the piled sheets
  • The jointing bricks were added where the panels meet
  • Powder coated steel tops were added
  • The brickwork was pointed with standard mortar
  • Fence panels were added where required
  • The new wall blends in well with the existing houses
  • The tarmac pathway is added
  • The turf was relaid and the wall looks part of the garden now