Bushfire Planning & Design Blog

In 2020 the Rural Fire Service (RFS) approached Blackash Consulting to help them undertake work to assist the bushfire rebuild in NSW after the 2019/20 state-wide bushfire natural disaster which destroyed over 2400 homes across 34 local government areas. Many communities in NSW experienced...

Since its establishment in 2013, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has been conducting research into bushfire that supports the development of cohesive, evidence-based policies, strategies, programs and tools to build a more disaster resilient Australia....

Blackash has been part of the team working on the large industrial estate on a 154-hectare site known as Oakdale West Estate. A State Significant Development, located within the Western Sydney Employment Area (WSEA), in the Penrith LGA. Blackash has been providing bushfire expertise and...

I was fortunate enough to be a coauthor of an article, Rethinking Crisis Information for position magazine originally published in issue 105 of Position magazine. It is authored by Maritin Tomko, Lew Short, Sisi Zlatanova and Maurits van der Vlugt. The communication of the spatial extent of...