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SMART mobile flood pro­tec­tion for SMART Cities
Quick and easy to set up  — safe in operation!

Pic­ture: The AquaWand, stored invis­i­bly in stand­by mode on site. The only thing to be seen is a line drainage. In fact, all com­po­nents are con­cealed under the tra­vers­a­ble cover.

In the 36-sec­ond film, you can see the rapid assem­bly of the AquaWand type140 in fast motion the rapid assem­bly and the rapid assem­bly of the AquaWand type200.

1. The AquaWand

We devel­op, man­u­fac­ture and dis­trib­ute mobile flood pro­tec­tion sys­tems for pro­fes­sion­al use.

The AquaWand is a closed sys­tem, always in stand­by mode. Every­thing is secure­ly con­nect­ed, noth­ing can be lost or stolen. There are no screws, the con­struc­tion is sim­ple, all com­po­nents are pulled out of the chan­nel, inter­locked and bolted. 

With the AquaWand, fast, tar­get­ed action can be imple­ment­ed by any­one with min­i­mal effort (a trained team = 1 m² AquaWall / 1 man-minute). Expe­ri­enced emer­gency per­son­nel are relieved, valu­able time and man­pow­er are free for fur­ther cru­cial tasks, such as man­ag­ing crit­i­cal infrastructure.

The CO2 emis­sions of the AquaWand are low­er than those of the clas­sic alu­mini­um dam beams in pro­duc­tion as with assem­bly and dis­man­tling (no stor­age, no logis­tics) decreas­ing by a fac­tor of 10.

2. Installation examples / application scenarios of mobile flood protection systems

2.1 The AquaWand on shore (Baltic Sea in Denmark)

Flood oper­a­tion: mobile flood pro­tec­tion on shore

2.2 The AquaWand between two build­ings (Hildesheim, Germany)

Flood oper­a­tion: mobile flood pro­tec­tion between two buildings

2.3 The AquaWand of a land­marke build­ing (Bavaria)

Flood pro­tec­tion: mobile flood pro­tec­tion around a house

2.4 The AquaWand as flood pro­tec­tion in dri­ve­ways (Zurich, Switzerland)

Flood pro­tec­tion: mobile flood pro­tec­tion in driveways

2.5 The AquaWand as line pro­tec­tion next to run­ning waters (Sax­ony)

Mobile flood pro­tec­tion as line pro­tec­tion next to run­ning waters

2.6 The AquaWand as build­ing pro­tec­tion already dur­ing shell construction

Flood pro­tec­tion: mobile flood pro­tec­tion installed in the building

Images: The AquaWand200, length 4 m, height 1.8 m

Images: The AquaWand140, length 1.9m, height 1.2m

Images: The AquaWand140, length 15 m, height 1.2m

2.7 Line pro­tec­tion on the EMS riv­er with dif­fer­ent AquaWand types and pro­tec­tion heights (NRW)

Mobile flood pro­tec­tion: Var­i­ous AquaWän­den (mobile flood pro­tec­tion sys­tems) on a flow­ing watercourse

2.8 Image: Rapid mobile enclos­ing flood pro­tec­tion around a hos­pi­tal in 2 x 70 metre lengths and a dri­ve­way to be closed.

Flood pro­tec­tion: mobile flood pro­tec­tion around a hospital

2.9 The AquaWand installed as a stor­age pool in a car park. In this way, an area can be used multifunctionally.

Flood pro­tec­tion / stor­age basin: mobile flood pro­tec­tion in a car park

Instal­la­tion exam­ples / appli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios of the AquaWand:

The appli­ca­tion is very ver­sa­tile to imple­ment in an urban space.

Since no sup­ply routes are required for logis­tics, hard-to-reach areas are also pos­si­ble for the use of the AquaWand.

It is also pos­si­ble to switch between AQUABURG’s mobile flood sys­tems “AquaWand” and the “new low-priced AquaVerschluss”!

3. The surfaces of the AquaWand, functional and visually appealing

The AquaWand offers struc­tural­ly attrac­tive solu­tions in urban spaces as well as for his­tor­i­cal sites, as it is always on site, but only vis­i­ble dur­ing floods.

Per­ma­nent­ly installed but only tem­porar­i­ly required flood pro­tec­tion sys­tems place high visu­al demands on their place of demands on their instal­la­tion site, as they con­tribute to the over­all impres­sion. Nor­mal­ly only the cov­ers of the AquaWand made of hot-dip gal­va­nized steel, stain­less steel or Corten steel are visible.

4. Overview of the different AquaWand types

The AquaWand — in the floor                         — in the wall

The pro­tec­tive heights of the AquaWand can be select­ed from 60 cm to 400 cm.

The dif­fer­ent AquaWand types can be installed in a trench, in a wall or dike.

The sta­t­ics of the indi­vid­ual AquaWand can be adapt­ed to the local con­di­tions, extend­ed secu­ri­ty require­ments and cus­tomer requests.

5. The most important strengths of the mobile flood protection system at a glance

Quick:

• Stor­age on site
• Fast self-suf­fi­cient assembly
• Assem­bly with­out qual­i­fied  per­son­nel with handy tools

Cheap:

• No stor­age costs
• No logis­tics costs
• Very low per­son­nel costs

Safe:

• Very robust
• Under­wash­ing protection
• Large impact protection
• High sys­tem stability

Con­clu­sion: fast, safe mobile flood pro­tec­tion with very low oper­at­ing costs and organ­i­sa­tion­al costs for the flood deploy­ment of tomorrow’s mobile flood pro­tec­tion systems.

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6. Flood protection wall — tested and certified

The AquaWand is one of the best stud­ied mobile flood pro­tec­tion sys­tems on the market.

Images: Tests of the dif­fer­ent flood pro­tec­tion walls at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty Ham­burg-Har­burg (TUHH) — test at the RWTH Aachen and tests at the AquaWand with a 4‑metre damming height in a spe­cial­ly con­vert­ed test facility.

7. Films var­i­ous tests

7.1 The 34-sec­ond film shows the quick instal­la­tion of the wall rail in the wall brack­et. This makes it pos­si­ble to quick­ly pro­tect the mobile flood pro­tec­tion even when the water is already coming.

7.2 In the 20-sec­ond film, a flot­sam impact with addi­tion­al flood­ing can be seen. The tar­pau­lin-net con­struc­tion of the AquaWand absorbs the large impacts very well.

7.3 The 35-sec­ond film shows the test set­up and a strong flot­sam impact in a sequence of images like videos. The film clear­ly shows that the forces of the flot­sam impact are well absorbed.

7.4 Extreme weath­er often places extreme demands on a pro­tec­tion sys­tem!
The 60-sec­ond film shows var­i­ous extreme tests:

• Struc­ture in snow and ice,
• Net dam­age dur­ing floods,
• post dam­age dur­ing floods,
• Emer­gency repair of the tar­pau­lin dur­ing floods

8. NEW: The economical AquaVerschluss

SMART mobile flood pro­tec­tion for SMART Cities
Inex­pen­sive to buy, easy to set up — safe to use!

NEW: The eco­nom­i­cal AquaVerschluss

The Aqua­Ver­schluss = clo­sure  sim­ply screwed into ground sleeves or quick­ly stuck into a floor rail

The eco­nom­i­cal Aqua­Ver­schluss is sim­ply brought to the place of use and assem­bled easily.

x2 Only the wall and floor sleeves of the mobile flood pro­tec­tion can be seen.

Aqua­Ver­schluss advantages:

• sim­ple
• hard­ly any logis­tics (fits on Euro pallets)
• cheap

The CO2 emis­sions oft the Aqua­Ver­schluss are many times low­er than those of the pro­duc­tion of clas­sic alu­mini­um dam beams.

9. Installation examples / application scenarios

The NEW Aqua­Ver­schluss = Clo­sure as flood pro­tec­tion in an under­ground car park (Aus­tria).

The Aqua­Ver­schluss is tak­en from stor­age X1 (stowed small) and screwed into the Wall and floor sleeves X2 (only the sleeves are visible).

Flood deploy­ment: mobile flood pro­tec­tion at large openings

10. Overview of the different AquaVerschluss heights

Pro­tec­tion-Height from 60 cm to 200 cm.

10.1 Ware­house and logis­tics AquaVerschluss

The Aqua­Ver­schluss can be stowed and stored small (see pic­ture above) = low­er mobile flood pro­tec­tion costs.

The posts stand on a Euro pal­let and are con­nect­ed with lash­ing straps.

11. AquaVerschluss — tested and certified

Pic­ture: Aqua­Ver­schluss in the test basin of the TUHH.

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12. Films AquaVerschluss

12.1 The 27-sec­ond film shows the leak­age test (with clear water) at the TUHH. The leaks are very small, with water only escap­ing from the low­er left and right cor­ners of the Aqua­Ver­schluss. Due to the tar­pau­lin, there are no oth­er seals and no leaks on the entire surface.

12.2 In the 24 sec­ond film, flood­ing is shown. Even after unhook­ing the top rope at the top left of the wall con­nec­tion, the con­struc­tion is very sta­ble and there is no dam­age to the net or the tarpaulin.

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13. 1:1 Model of the AquaWand / AquaVerschluss

In order to be able to bet­ter assess the AquaWand / Aqua­Ver­schluss, we offer you the pos­si­bil­i­ty to check its qual­i­ty and strengths. For this pur­pose, we have a 1:1 mod­el with which we can demon­strate all the essen­tial prop­er­ties of the AquaWand and AquaVerschluss.

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