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New Civil Engineer is delighted to be bringing back the Innovation Accelerator at this year’s Flood Resilience and Water conferences.

The conference will showcase the latest thinking on flood prevention strategies with case studies and best practice, but the Innovation Accelerator will shine a spotlight on technologies developed by SMEs to deliver on the industry’s ambitions.

At NCE’s Flood Resilience and Water collocated conferences on 28 April our shortlisted companies will be given the chance to pitch live their innovation to tackle the issues surrounding resilience, mitigation or, carbon reduction within the flood sector to an expert panel of judges and other delegates at the event.

Judges will then put questions to the candidates before deliberating over the winner who will be announced at the end of the day.

Criteria

Entries will be judged based on the following criteria:

  • Innovation: The originality of the idea and potential impact on the flood and/or water sector
  • Impact: Potential for your innovation to be used more widely both in the UK and internationally to solve challenges faced by the flood and/or water sector.
  • Value: How does this innovation your innovation improve efficiency, financial cost or carbon cost of an overall project or maintenance activity?
  • Leadership: How does your innovation position you as an industry leader and why should other projects take the lead from your development?
  • Collaboration: How have you worked with the wider industry to develop your innovation and what further plans do you have to broaden your collaboration?