top of page

The Startup Lifting Cities out of Flood Zones | Terranova

  • Stephen McBride
  • 5 days ago
  • 1 min read
Click the image to watch Stephen’s interview with Terranova’s Laurence Allen.
Click the image to watch Stephen’s interview with Terranova’s Laurence Allen.

Flooding already costs America $180 billion a year. By 2050, more than 300 million people will live with regular flooding.

 

Until now we’ve only had two options: build a seawall. Or give up and move.

 

Terranova’s Laurence Allen is building a third way: Just raise the city itself.

 

I caught up with Laurence to hear how he’s already proven it works… and what it’ll take to lift his first city.


In our interview you’ll hear:

 

  • Why seawalls don’t work… and who’s still building them

  • How a “wood chip milkshake” can fix flooding

  • The forgotten 70s experiment that raised an island

  • How Terranova’s robots lift an entire city in place

  • A trillion-dollar gopher disaster waiting to happen

 

 
 
bottom of page