Brian Roebuck
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Aug 31, 2007 19:05:49 GMT -5
For those of us afraid of flooding this may be the ticket! "In the Netherlands, where half the country lies below mean sea level and flooding has long been a fact of life, construction and engineering company Dura Vermeer has come up with a novel and, when you think about it, obvious solution to the problem: houses that float. "These type of homes offer a good way of dealing with the effects of climate change," Dura Vermeer spokesman Johan van der Pol told CNN. "Unlike normal houses, they are extremely flexible when it comes to flooding, able to deal with a sea level rise of up to five metres." www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/20/floating.houses/index.html
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