Averting Disaster: New Ways to Assess Bushfire Risk and Building Integrity

该项目旨在开发一种新的方法来评估森林火灾风险和建筑完整性，使用基于无人机的先进技术和基于计算流体力学的热传递模型，用于位于森林火灾易发地区的建筑。这种结合的方法将能够评估森林火灾对建筑物的影响，并提供森林火灾前的情况/风险评估，以及针对具体地点采取具有成本效益的补救行动，以减少或消除森林火灾的损害，并在森林火灾季节之前减轻风险。新方法将应用于选定的三个建筑物，通过这些建筑物可以进一步加强和验证。这个项目将展示如何使选定的建筑及其组件成为森林防火安全。

This project aims to develop a new method of assessing bushfire risk and building integrity using drone-based advanced technologies and computational fluid dynamics based heat transfer modelling for buildings located in bushfire prone areas. This coupled approach will enable the evaluation of bushfire effects on buildings and provide pre-bushfire condition/risk assessments, and site-specific cost-effective remedial actions to reduce or eliminate bushfire damage and mitigate the risks pre-bushfire season. The new method will be applied to three selected buildings through which further enhancements and validations can be achieved. This project will showcase how the selected buildings and their components can be made bushfire safe.