Opportunity card softening profit: non-core buildings in floodplains

This is an opportunity map for softening covering non-core buildings located in flood-prone areas. Scores are awarded to buildings from the dataset ‘Large-scale reference file Flanders’ version 2020. No further differentiation is made in the score. If a building is located outside the core in a flood zone, it gets the maximum score of 5. This opportunity map related to non-specific buildings in flood area contributes to the preparation of the final opportunity map for softening profit (https://www.vlaanderen.be/data location/catalogue/opportunity map-softening profit). In order to efficiently and effectively reduce the degree of hardening, it is important to gain insight into those locations that are most likely to soften the soil. In order to determine where annealing is most promising, the opportunity map of annealing gains (and assessment framework) was thus developed. The opportunity maps – including this opportunity map of non-core buildings in flood-prone areas – show per parameter whether a paved location is difficult or easy to anneal based on the properties of the pavement itself and therefore has a large or small opportunity for annealing. More information about the creation of all priority and opportunity cards and the final combination to the final opportunity card softening profit can be found in the final report of the study carried out on behalf of the Environment department: https://researchportal.be/en/publication/softening profit-weighting framework-and-opportunity map-part-1