Tweed Airport – New Haven, Connecticut

Tweed Airport is vulnerable to coastal flooding from the Long Island Sound and localized flash floods from extreme rain events. The City of New Haven required the airport to install deployable flood protection for the facility. Avports selected National Flood Protection LLC to install Super Flood Logs on 15 openings with protection heights from 2-4 feet depending on flood risk in each location.

The installation included custom features to fortify critical areas of the airport, including a fully-enclosed array to protect the TSA baggage scanners. For another opening, Flood Panel LLC designed a self-supporting wall channel that can absorb the entire flood load with no impact on the building structure. The custom channels were attached to 4×4 steel posts installed by NFP on the building.

Flood Panel designed a custom wall channel to absorb the entire flood load for this opening.

National Flood Protection installed 4×4 steel posts for the custom channels.