Resilient Buildings: Informing Maintenance for Long-term Sustainability - Final Industry Report

Resilience of buildings is a national objective in disaster mitigation. Often, maintenance is a missing link to improving the resilience of buildings in extreme events. The performance of the buildings decreases over time and without effective maintenance, their vulnerabilities to extreme events will increase. This SBEnrc Project 1.53, Resilient Buildings: Informing Maintenance for Long-term Sustainability, aimed to examine the role of maintenance in making buildings more resilient to the extreme weather impacts of bushfires, floods and water ingress from cyclones and high winds. This project focused mainly on low-rise public buildings and the use of technical knowledge to inform policy and practice. The methodology included literature reviews, workshops, interviews and industry consultations looking for gaps in current policy and practice.