Our Poster titled “Resilient House Designs based on Lessons Learnt from Black Summer Fires 2019/20” by Dr Sahani Hendawitharana, Dr Anthony Ariyanayagam and Prof Mahen Mahendran was presented at the 2023 Institution of Fire Engineers (Australia) National Conference. The conference was held as a part of AFAC23 on 23-24 August 2023 in the Exhibition Hall of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, with AFAC23 powered by INTERSCHUTZ Exhibition with over 200 leading industry exhibitors on display.
We would like to thank Dr Dmitry Bratanov and the QUT Research Engineering Facility (REF) staff and gratefully acknowledge QUT’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility and Thunderhead Engineering for the academic license for Pyrosim software. Also, we acknowledge the financial support from the Queensland University of Technology and the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, Australian Government.
We highly appreciate the support of Alisa Totenhofer and the Scenic Rim Council Disaster Management Team and the contributions of QUT final-year thesis students.