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"By 2030, climate change will make one in 25 Australian homes “uninsurable” if
greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, with riverine flooding posing the
greatest insurance risk, a new Climate Council analysis finds.
As a professor of architecture, I find this analysis grim, yet unsurprising.
One reason is because Australian housing is largely unfit for the challenges of
climate change.
In the past two years alone we’ve seen over 3,000 homes razed in the 2019-2020
megafires, and over 3,600 homes destroyed in New South Wales Northern Rivers
region in the recent floods.
Building houses better at withstanding the impacts of climate change is one way
we can protect ourselves in the face of future catastrophic conditions. I’m
part of a research team that developed a novel, bushfire-resistant house
design, which won an international award last month.
We hope its ability to withstand fires on its own will encourage owners – who
would otherwise stay to defend their home – to flee when bushfires encroach.
Let’s take a closer look at the risk of bushfires and why our housing design
should one day become a new Australian norm."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
