NAME MATTHEW BARKER

CURRENT POSITION Graduate Consultant at BRE (Building

Research Establishment)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS BSc (hons.) Environmental Science

Dissertation on soft engineering flood alleviation.

SPECIALISATIONS Flood Resilience technologies and systems, Soft

engineering strategies and data collection, site

testing and flood survey data analysis.

CAREER SUMMARY

Matthew is currently a lead on the DEFRA Roundtable Flood Task Group 3 project to set up

and create an independent guidance portal for flooding through the Centre for Resilience’s

website, www.centre4resilience.org. Matthew has further developed his media and web

development skills to enable this site to continually be updated with recent resilience

research and innovation as well as current policy guidance and information.

He is also a part of the PFR-d Urban Flood Resilience project which aims to improve the

affordability of flood insurance for home and property owners in flood risk areas. This system

provides a revised risk score based on installed flood resistance and resilience measures

that will protect the property from during a flood or minimise the damage extent if flood water

enters the property.

He was also involved in developing the AMSCI standard, a sustainable building assessment

code developed for various offsite construction projects. This project integrating current

standards with guidance from world renowned built environment professionals into a

universal standard that will be used in future design projects. Another project that Matthew

has been involved in, is the UK innovate LIEFPROD project which involved several research

assessments of future low carbon technologies – including the assessment of closed loop

recycling products and circular economy principles.

Matthew graduated Lancaster University in 2015 and proceeded to begin his graduate

scheme placements from September of the same year. Since the commencement of the

scheme, he has completed site testing surveys, project managed numerous certification

projects and also being a member of the Centre for Resilience’s delivery team.

Prior to working for BRE, Matthew completed his BSc (hons.) degree at Lancaster University

in Environmental Science focussing on flood defences and management with his final year

dissertation being completed in partnership with the Environment Agency, “Soft Engineering

Options for Flood Alleviation at Stockdalewath”, in order to find an affordable solution to

flood management within the small village located in Cumbria.

EXPERIENCE

Task leader as part of the DEFRA Property Level Resilience Roundtable in the

development and management of the Centre for Resilience’s free online flood

guidance portal, www.centre4resilience.org.

Undertaking of property level protection resilience and resistance measure surveys,

evaluation of buildings in these flood risk areas and analysis of results.

Project delivery team for the PFR-d Urban Flood Resilience Project.

Assistance and delivery on various low carbon technology research projects for BRE.