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Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas
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Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing.
The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a building surviving a bushfire. If you are designing landscapes and buildings in bushfire areas you need to be aware of these factors so that the chances of losses to life and property can be minimised.
Landscape & Building Design for Bushfire Areas integrates the latest scientific knowledge about buildings and bushfires with a flexible design approach.
The book contains two main sections:
1) Provides a clear description of what happens in a bushfire. It describes the environment in which bushfires occur, how a fire attacks, and how buildings are ignited and destroyed.
2) Sets out a practical design approach to the design of buildings and their immediate surroundings. It presents a range of options for designing the various elements of both landscapes and buildings in bushfire-prone areas.
This book encourages design for bushfire to be included as a normal part of designing in bushfire-prone areas, rather than as an undesirable add-on. It will assist planning and building regulatory authorities to improve and administer regulatory requirements and guidelines.
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CSIRO Publishing; November 2003
112 pages; ISBN 9780643098817
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112 pages; ISBN 9780643098817
Read online, or download in EPUB or secure PDF format
Subject categories
- Academic > Engineering > Building construction > Systems of building construction, Including fireproof construction, concrete construction
- Academic > Engineering > Building construction > Protection of buildings, Including protection from dampness, fire, burglary
- Architecture > Design & Drafting
- Technology > Engineering > Civil
- Science > Environmental Science
- Technology > Construction
ISBNs
0643090991
9780643069046
9780643090996
9780643098817