Flood Wall Installations & Applications

FLOOD WALL BARRIERS - PERIMETER WALL

A perimeter flood wall is a removable flood protection system that is designed to be a free-standing wall. A perimeter flood wall may enclose an area, or it may tie into concrete flood walls or an earth levee.

University of Iowa - Art Building West

Despite the fact that this installation of the Invisible Flood Control Wall is protecting a building, it is not strictly a flood proofing application. The design uses a perimeter wall configuration, enclosing the building on three sides and tying into high earth on the fourth side.

Holman Field - St. Paul Downtown Airport

This perimeter flood wall spans to runways on the banks of the Mississippi River. The flood protection system ties into earth levees, as well as concrete flood walls.

Quaker Oats - Cedar Rapids, IA

This manufacturing facility sits at a large bend on the Cedar River. The flood protection schemes include several runs of removable flood wall, as well as concrete walls and earth levees.

Pier 26 Removable Flood Wall

The Invisible Flood Control Wall around City Vineyard at Pier 26 in lower Manhattan protects the building from flooding and hurricane surge from the Hudson River.

Flood Proof - Bothell, WA

Removable flood barriers are used to flood proof a high tech office and communications facility.

Flood Proof - Bothell, WA

Removable flood barriers are used to flood proof a high tech office and communications facility.

Flood Proofing in action - Lincoln, VT

Burnham Hall in Lincoln, VT survived the flooding of the New Haven River during Hurricane Irene by integrating the Invisible Flood Control Wall into their flood proofing system.

FLOOD PROOFING

Flood proofing of structures can be achieved using the Invisible Flood Control Wall. The flood wall system can be endlessly customized to protect doors and windows to help achieve dry flood proofing.

FLOOD BARRIERS - CLOSURES

The flood wall closure is an application wherein the overall flood protection system mainly comprises a concrete wall or earth levee, and the removable flood wall planks simply drop in a short span to close the system.

Flood Wall Closure - East Grand Forks, MN

This 12' high flood barrier closure requires three intermediate support posts to pick up the potential flood loads from the Red River.

Flood Wall Closure - Fargo, ND

This school uses architectural walls to ring the campus, leaving several opening that are easily closed before a flood event by dropping in the aluminum stop logs.

Flood Wall Closure - Louisville, KY

A removable flood wall closure is in place at Louisville Slugger Field, home of the Louisville Bats.

Flood Wall Closure - Cedar Falls, IA

Concrete walls and the Invisible Flood Control Wall are used in a flood closure application to allow for a bike path along the river.