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Extreme Events in Australia
AIRAH RESILIENCE TASK GROUP
Paul Stoller, Atelier Ten
We Live In A World of Extreme Events
Extreme Events in Australia
What Are Extreme Events?
ACUTE SHOCKS
- Power, water outage (aging infrastructure)
- Bush Fires
- Cyclones
- Floods
- Heat Waves
- Hail Storms
- Attacks, Occupations
We Live In A Changing World
What Will Change?
CHRONIC STRESSES
- Temperature rise
- More extreme weather
- Rainfall changes (mostly less)
- Sea level rise, inundation
POSSIBLE STRESSES
- Urbanization
- Energy costs
- Laws + regulations
- Risk management
- Sharing economy
Resilience is the capacity to adapt to changing
conditions and to maintain or regain
functionality and vitality in the face of stress or
disturbance. It is the capacity to bounce back
after a disturbance or interruption of some sort.
Resilient Design Institute
What is Resilience?
Resilient design is the intentional consideration
and response to vulnerabilities from extreme
events and longer term disruptions. Resilient
design and building enables future adaptation
and incremental response changing
circumstances.
What is Resilient Design?
Who Cares About This?
Stockland Shopping Centre, Cairns, during Cyclone Yasi, Feb
2011
Who Cares About This?
Who Cares About This?
Who Cares About This?
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AIRAH’s Resilience STG
Resilience best practice guide needed for HVAC industry
Resilience design criteria needed by property industry
Resilient awareness, training, benchmarking needed
Strategic aim for AIRAH to lead this initiative
We Need To Know More About Resilient HVAC!
AIRAH’s Resilience STG
Drafting Resilience strategies for each industry segment
Beginning publicity campaign (this talk, Climate Adapt conference June 2016)
Planning publications: Ecolibrium articles, white paper, design guideline… TDB
Researching how to adapt future climate scenario information into standard industry formats: Design Criteria, TMY (hourly) data files, etc.
For The AIRAH Resilience Task Group
AIRAH Resilience Task Group