Climate Resilience, Flooding, Storms and Business Continuity

The April 2024 event brought the UAE's heaviest rainfall in more than 70 years, causing widespread flooding and infrastructure damage. Current UAE and Abu Dhabi adaptation planning identifies higher temperatures, extreme weather, sea-level rise, groundwater, soil, biodiversity, infrastructure, health and energy as resilience concerns.

Update emergency and continuity plans for

• Flash flooding and drainage overload at low points on your site or premises.
• Access loss when arterial roads close or flood.
• Power failure and the run-time of standby generation.
• Lightning and high-wind stand-downs for crane and height work.
• Communications failure — a backup channel that does not rely on 4G.
• Supply-chain interruption for critical materials and consumables.

Protect what cannot be reset quickly

Electrical rooms below ground, hazardous-material stores and server rooms are the assets where a single event turns into weeks of downtime. Map low points, elevate what you can, bund what you cannot, and rehearse a multi-agency drill with the local authority, utility and building manager.