TR5006:03
Protective Construction
Townsville
39 contact hours. First and second semester. On-campus and flexible delivery.
Staff: Professor R Aynsley.
Extreme events and their probability of occurrence and likely impact on buildings, strategies for minimising risk from such events, case study of tropical cyclones as extreme events, their characteristics, associated forces and associated design loads on residential buildings, selection of residential building claddings and fixings to resist cyclonic wind loads.
Learning Objectives:
- ability to assess design windloads on residential buildings for tropical cyclone conditions and identify appropriate claddings and types of fixings capable of resisting connection loads;
- ability to identify the probability of occurrence and likely impact on residential buildings of seismic activity, bushfires, floods and tidal surge at particular building sites in tropical regions and suggest appropriate protective construction strategies.
Assessment by essay (60%); examination (40%).
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