In June this year, Sheffield was hit by severe flooding, following some of the wettest weather on record in the UK. On Monday (25 June), Irwin Mitchell’s Sheffield offices, located across two buildings in the centre of the city, were badly hit by the flooding. The ground floors of both buildings were engulfed with water.
Irwin Mitchell’s business continuity team alerted business continuity specialists SunGard to the likely danger at around 5pm on the day of the flooding. By 6pm, the firm’s head of IT operations Gary Thomas rang SunGard, to call on its services and put into action its recovery plan.
