Appendix D - Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan

                         Ecological Natural Area Management



6 Assessment of Asset Protection Zones, Radiant Heat Loads
  and Bushfire Attack Level
An assessment of Asset Protection Zone Widths, associated Radiant Heat Loads and a Bushfire
Attack Level as related to Radiant Heat Loads will be conducted using the protocol in Bushfire
Resilient Communities as it supersedes Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme Planning scheme policy
for the bushfire hazard overlay code
6.1    Assessment of Asset Protection Zones and Radiant Heat Loads
The Building Code of Australia references Australian Standard AS3959 Construction of buildings in
bushfire-prone areas for Deemed to Satisfy building requirements for bushfire risk management
construction of buildings.
This section assesses Asset Protection Zone Widths, associated Radiant Heat Loads and Bushfire
Attack Level as related to Radiant Heat Loads for the house to determine a level of construction
required to achieve the objective of the Standard which is to “prescribe particular construction
details for buildings to reduce the risk of ignition from a bushfire while the fire front passes”.
(Standards Australia, 2009).
Bushfire Resilient Communities allows the use of Method 2 of Australian Standard AS3959, subject
to the adoption of site-specific values of FFDI, site-specific vegetation hazard classes, modified
modelling of surface fuel loads and effective and site slopes
This report uses software developed by Newcastle Bushfire Consulting which models the Bushfire
Attack Level using Method 2 of Australian Standard AS3959.




Bushfire Risk Assmnt & Mngt Plan for a “Community housing” development at 55 Carpenters Rd, Cooroy   February 2022

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