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Bushfire Planning & Design Blog

AFAC, bushfire, Bushfire Fuel Management, community safety, mitigation, prevention, resilience, risk

Reducing the Bushfire Risk

Bushfires of low or moderate intensity often pose little threat to life, property and community assets. However, bushfires that burn in heavy fuels, steep terrain or on hot, dry and windy days often spread rapidly, crown in forests, produce powerful convection columns and create extensive spot...
06 Oct 14
By : Lew Short
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AS3959, BAL, building in bushfire prone areas, Bushfire Attack Levels Assessments, Bushfire Design, consumer rights, development, Flamezone, infill development, planning

So why are there houses in the Bushfire Flame Zone?

The simple answer is planning decisions of the past often did not take into consideration a range of natural hazards (ie flood, slip, acid sulphate soils etc), standards were not in place (AS3959 was first published in 1991) and development often occurred in a ad-hoc way. Many older...
06 Apr 14
By : Lew Short
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