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