Bushfire Planning & Design Blog

We often get queries about providing advice on landscape design to reduce bushfire risk. Managing vegetation to reduce bushfire risk is something that all land owners and managers can do. People that live in bushfire prone areas (which is an area of land that can support a bushfire or is likely...

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...