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Bushfire CRC > Research > Protection of People and Property > Building and Occupant Protection

Documents & Reports

Raphaele Blanchi & Justin Leonard
The influence of human behaviour on house loss [pdf 123.1 kb]


Julian Black
Development of a residential planning tool to minimise house loss from bushfire in the urban interface [pdf 96.5 kb]


Water tank behavior in Bushfires
A collaborative project between BlueScope Steel Limited and the Bushfire CRC - Research into the performance of water tanks in bushfire. [pdf 11.5 Mb]


Measurements of Moisture Content in Decking Timbers Exposed to Bushfire Weather Conditions
A preliminary investigation into the moisture content in decking timbers exposed to bushfire weather conditions. [pdf 3.4 Mb]


Fire Tests on Timber Decks
[pdf 874.8 kb]


Fire Tests at the Interface between Timber Decks and Exterior Walls
[pdf 3.6 Mb]


Tanks on trial for home defence
Update 8 - Rainwater tanks have been assessed for bushfire conditions. [pdf 175.8 kb]


Performance of steel power poles
Report into the perfomance of steel power poles in bushfires. A project conducted with BlueScope Steel [pdf 2.5 Mb]


Assesment of fire retarded timber
A Report on the assessment of fire retardent treated timber for decking systems. [pdf 283.0 kb]


Measuring Ember attack on Decking
Measuring Ember Attack on Timber Deck-Joist Connections [pdf 1.3 Mb]


Fencing report
Final fencing report - conducted under contract from BlueScope Steel. [pdf 2.5 Mb]


Report on Window and Glazing performance
Window and Glazing Exposure to Laboratory-Simulated Bushfires [pdf 1.7 Mb]


An investigation of house fire spread
A report on house fire spread following an experiment at Gulgong NSW [pdf 1.1 Mb]


Report on building losses in the Canberra fires
Report on building losses in the Canberra fires [pdf 4.2 Mb]


Presentations & Posters

Tanks on trial for home defence
Update 8 - Rainwater tanks have been assessed for bushfire conditions. [pdf 175.8 kb]


Vehicle Burnover - Hobart 2007
[pdf 136.7 kb]


Blanchi Presentation at Protugal conference 2006
Lessons learnt from post bushfire surveys at the urban interface in Australia - Final Paper [pdf 607.2 kb]


Presentation to Forest Fire Research Conference Portugal November 2006
[pdf 1.8 Mb]


Raphael Blanchi
Fire indicators - a European perspective. [pdf 195.4 kb]


Bushfire Risk at the Rural Urban Interface
Paper given at the Bushfire 2006 Conference June 2006 in Brisbane [pdf 37.8 kb]


Justin Leonard, Blanchi, Bowditch, Sargeant, White, MacIndoe
Measuring house loss risk at the interface. [pdf 2.9 Mb]


R Blanchi, A Tibbits, MA Gill
Experiences of the 2003 Canberra bushfires. [pdf 1.2 Mb]


Raphaele Blanchi, Chris Lucas, Klara Finkele, Justin Leonard
Meteorological conditions and wildfire related house loss in Australia. [pdf 184.2 kb]


Raphaele Blanchi, Justin Leonard, Bob Leicester
Risk Model. [pdf 215.8 kb]


D1 Bushfire 2004 - Blanchi
Presentation at Adelaide conference [pdf 620.0 kb]


D1 Risk 2004
Presentation at risk conference [pdf 242.6 kb]


D1 Wildland fire 2003
Presentation at Wildland Fire conference in Sydney [pdf 67.5 kb]


D1 Bushfire 2004
Presentation in Adelaide [pdf 420.3 kb]


Protection of people and property - BCRC / AFAC 2005 Poster
The objective of this research is to provide essential tools to predict and manage risk posed by bushfire to the community and infrastructure [pdf 118.5 kb]