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

Documents & Reports

R. Blanchi and J. E. Leonard
Bushfire at the urban interface - Lesson from the Otway fires(1983), Sydney fires (1994) and Canberra fires (2003) [pdf 1.1 Mb]


Bushfire Interface Research
Justin Leonard [pdf 2.7 Mb]


Preliminary Tests on Roof Sarking Exposed to Simulated Ember Attack
L. Macindoe, J. E. Leonard [pdf 1.7 Mb]


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]


Nathan White, CSIRO
Research measurements and Australian standards for protection against bushfire attack. [pdf 518.0 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]


AS3959 Stringency
Investigation into the stringency provided by the draft standard AS3959 [pdf 548.7 kb]


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


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


Presentations & Posters

Program D - Julian Black.pdf
Using neighbourhood scale risk assessment to qualify the benefit of implementing BPM's to an urban interface zone [pdf 374.3 kb]


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]


Justin Leonard
Bushfire interface risk modelling. [pdf 446.3 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]


Conference Papers - External Links

Potential heath impacts to residents from smoke exposure during bushfires
Reisen, Blanchi, and Tibbits.

Attack by Wildfire
Bob Leicester, Justin Leonard, Raphaele Blanchi. Conference program.

Resident's experiences of the 2003 Canberra bushfire.
Tibbits, Blanchi and Gill.

Property Safety: judging structural safety
Justin Leonard. Publishers site.