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Floating an idea: Prof goes with the flow to protect homes from floods |
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Saturday, 31 January 2009 00:00 |
 Elizabeth English loves her job as an architecture professor at the University of Waterloo, but her heart remains in Louisiana. That's where her passion for preserving the culture and character of New Orleans has led her, to challenge the conventional wisdom about how to protect homes from flood damage.
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University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Annual Report |
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Friday, 01 February 2008 00:00 |
 Elizabeth English has designed a foundation that can float a house. She wants to use it to help rebuild New Orleans.
Usually, houses in low-lying areas are raised to protect them from floods. But a house on stilts can be hard to live in, and stilts don't always work. "Even if you do put the house on eight-foot stilts, you might have a 10-foot flood, Elizabeth notes.
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New Orleans: Two Years Later |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:00 |
 It's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge.
Was it the 1850s, when a coffeehouse owner created the Sazerac cocktail? Or perhaps the 1940s, when a teenager named J.M. Lapeyre invented the automatic shrimp peeler?
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Two Years After the Storm, the Devastated City Is a Boomtown of Fresh Ideas for Rebirth |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:00 |
 Much of New Orleans continues to lie abandoned and destroyed, even a full two years after Hurricane Katrina swept through the region with a vengeance. The Louisiana city still struggles with severe economic problems, dysfunctional government and the toxic residue left in place after the storm waters receded.
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New Buoyant Foundation System Hopes to Save Homes from Flooding |
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Friday, 08 June 2007 00:00 |
 One of the biggest losses to the people along the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Katrina was their homes. Now, LSU has unveiled its prototype of an invention to protect homes from floodwaters. You could call them 'floaties' for your home.
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Float This House: Professor Hopes To Save Ambiance of N.O. Homes |
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 00:00 |
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Floating Houses May Be Big Easy's Answer To Floods |
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Sunday, 08 April 2007 00:00 |
 The next time a hurricane Floods New Orleans, whole neighborhoods might just bob up like corks as the water rises.
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A Louisiana State University engineering professor is lobbying congressional staff and Bush administration officials to push a system she says could protect many homes from the kind of disastrous flooding that occurred in Hurricane Katrina.
The next time a hurricane floods New Orleans, whole neighborhoods might just bob up like corks as the water rises. 
A Louisiana State University engineering professor made the rounds of congressional staff and Bush administration officials this week to push a system she says could protect many homes from the kind of disastrous flooding that occurred in Hurricane Katrina. 
Elizabeth English, associate professor at the LSU Hurricane Center, ha
s found a simple and surprisingly affordable way for people to protect their homes against the dangers of flooding in New Orleans. It's based on a concept called buoyant foundations, an idea as simple as making a house float. 
Elizabeth English, associate professor at the Louisiana State niversity Hurricane Center, wants to protect homes against flooding in New Orleans with "buoyant foundations." 
