Tour a Windsor home retrofitted to reduce the risk of basement flooding

TORONTO, May 6, 2015 /CNW/ - The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) retrofitted a Windsor, Ontario home to reduce the risk of basement flooding. As part of the insurance industry's ongoing commitment to educate Canadian homeowners about disaster safety, ICLR has once again chosen Emergency Preparedness Week (May 4-8) to unveil its latest home retrofit project, this time in Windsor, Ontario.

Where: 4233 Northwood Lakes Dr., Windsor, Ontario
When: Friday, May 8, 2015 at 11 am EST (until noon EST)

Representatives from ICLR and the City of Windsor will be on hand to conduct tours of the house and answer technical questions relating to urban flooding, basement flood mitigation and the retrofit.

Established in 1998 by Canada's property and casualty insurers, ICLR is an independent, not-for-profit research institute based in Toronto and at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. ICLR is a centre of excellence for disaster loss prevention research and education. ICLR's research staff is internationally recognized for pioneering work in a number of fields including wind and seismic engineering, atmospheric sciences, water resources engineering and economics. Multi-disciplined research is a foundation for ICLR's work to build communities more resilient to disasters.

SOURCE Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction

Media contact: Glenn McGillivray, Managing Director, ICLR, tel. [phone], ext. 3216, cell 416-277-5827, [email protected]