School Of Built EnvironmentPerformance Solutions for Bushfire ProtectionWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 301265.1
Discipline: FIRE TECHNOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Students must have prior knowledge of Bushfire behaviour, planning, building, bushfire fighting and emergency management.
Equivalent Units
200499 Alternate Solutions for Bushfire Prone Areas
Prerequisite
300948 Fire Technology and Engineering Principles
Corequisite
200459 Emergency Management for Bushfire Prone Areas
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in 3709 Graduate Diploma in Bushfire Protection or 3708 Masters in Bushfire Protection and have completed 70 credit points of study.
About this Unit
This unit describes the processes and techniques available to develop performance outcomes to the planning and building of structures required for bushfire protection in Australia. This unit provides advanced methods to address performance when considering bushfire protection measures. It also introduces the 'bushfire protection guidelines' and processes similar to that used in developing performance solutions under the National Construction Code. These include the use of event tree analysis, verification methods, consideration of climate change and the use of annual exceedance probabilities when developing performance solutions. Students are required to develop suitable measures through a performance solution for bushfire protection of a building.