Australia has set a goal of building a million new homes in the next decade, but new homes built to the national minimum standard are unlikely to be liveable in the aftermath of extreme weather events.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.Experiments conducted using a "non-fortified" house compared to a "fortified" house showed how the two structures fared in an extreme weather event inside a test chamber.abc.net.au/news/qld-disaster-resilience-weather-cyclone-climate-housing/102030160Modern buildings are meant to last 50 years.
Ms Cotter is one of a tightly knit community of experts — in academia, government and within big insurance companies — urging leaders to act now to embed higher minimum standards across the country as part of a review of the National Construction Code, due to take effect in 2025, well into our latest building boom.In the Midwest of the United States, the threat is hurricanes.
Crucially, they then developed standards to make clear how far a home has been reinforced beyond the minimum requirements.That means insurers can measure the reduced risk and offer a discount on policies to home owners who build or retrofit to "fortified" standards.Australians have dramatically adapted their homes to deal with disasters in the past.
But critically, the house itself doesn't have to be built to survive the onslaught of wind, water or fire, raising the prospect of communities having to rebuild over and over again. Dr Geoff Boughton, from the Cyclone Testing Station, was surprised by the damage brought by Cyclone Seroja.
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