Study level

  • Honours

Faculty/School

Faculty of Engineering

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

QUT Resilience Centre

Centre for the Environment

Supervisors

Associate Professor Anthony Ariyanayagam
Position
Associate Professor
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
Professor Mahen Mahendran
Position
Professor
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering

Overview

Bushfires often have detrimental impacts on both the natural and built environments. Although current building standards are in place to reduce the influence bushfire has on new buildings, existing and older residential properties are more susceptible to bushfire ignition.

Identifying and restoring the most vulnerable features in existing properties can assist in reducing the property damage caused by bushfires. Implementing new technology into these risk assessments of existing bushfire-prone properties can reduce the time required and lower costs.

As part of this project you will work with the QUT Wind and Fire Lab researchers.

Research activities

In this project you will:

  • review the process of pre-bushfire condition assessment methods
  • use satellite imagery to identify the vegetation density surrounding houses
  • reconstruct the buildings (i.e. houses) and conduct heat transfer analysis for the selected buildings in Brisbane, Queensland
  • investigate the use of satellite data for better bushfire planning and prediction.

Outcomes

This study aims to develop a model to assess the risk of individual existing residential properties by identifying their surroundings using satellite imagery and machine learning.

The study will contribute to developing guidelines for using already available advanced technology in pre-bushfire condition assessments of buildings.

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