Data collection
Data that describe real built assets are needed to produce model variants that represent them, and ultimately to build damage functions that accurately depict their vulnerability.
floodam.building was initially developed to build damage functions at the national level in France. To do so, we thus need to collect data on built assets at the level of France. At the time of writing, we already have model variants that represent the French dwellings in terms of building materials. However, we still need to collect the necessary data to obtain representative models of French dwellings in terms of contents and protection, and to produce representative models of other built assets.
Building materials representative of the French dwellings
To produce model variants that better represent the dwellings in France, we used the information contained in two reports: a report produced by the Agence Qualité Construction (AQC 2009)1 and another one produced by Pouget consultants (Pouget Consultants 2017).2
The first report indicates the share of different building materials in dwellings for which a building permit was issued in France in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The second report classifies the French dwellings depending on their type (house or apartment) and their period of construction. For each type of dwelling, it indicates the most common building materials.