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"Be
safe not sorry", Advertiser,
24th January 2003, pages 32-33 Pryor, Cathy. "Living with a time bomb", Australian, 9th December 2002, page 10.
"VIC:
Architects warn of fire risk houses in the bush", AAP
General
News (Australia), 4th February 1999. "Fed:
Bushfire chief warns against bush development", AAP Newsfeed (Australia), 9th
December 2002. Benson, Simon. "Fireproofing your house by design - THE BUSHFIRE CRISIS", Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2003, page 21. "Call
for building code fire review", Sunbury/Macedon
Regional, 25th
February 2003, page 32. George, Robert. "Reducing
the risk in Bushfire Zones", Sunday Mail, 2nd February 2003,
[Real
Estate section] page H12. BIBLIOGRAPHY AMCORD:
a national resource document for residential development.
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, c1995.
Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Select Committee into the Recent Australian Bushfires. A nation charred: report on the inquiry into bushfires. Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia, 2003. Bushfire
prone areas: siting and design of residential buildings. 2nd
ed.
Brisbane, Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning,
incorporating
Rural Communities ; Queensland Fire and Rescue Authority, Rural Fire
Division,
1997.
Bushfires and building: Architecture 2
[videorecording]. Adelaide, University of Adelade, [no date]. Canberra firestorm
[videorecording]. Catalyst,
ABC-TV, 3rd March 2003. Good
residential design SA: a resource for planning, designing and
developing
neighbourhoods and homes. Planning SA, 1999.
Luke, R. H. Bushfires
in Australia. Reprinted with corrections, Canberra,
Australian
Government Publishing Service, 1986. Maxwell, F.T.T. Housing
design for bushfire areas. Thesis (B. Arch)--University
of
Adelaide, Department of Architecture, 1984.
Webster, Joan. Complete
Australian bushfire book. Melbourne, Nelson, 1986.
Other Articles
"Anatomy of a summer killer", Sunday Mail, 8th December 2002, page 79. Merola, Anna. "Are we next in path of inferno?", Sunday Mail, 26th January 2003, page 48. Benson, Simon. "Advancing embers led blitzkrieg from above - Canberra burns under attack", Daily Telegraph, 22nd January 2003, page 4. "Building
in bushfire prone areas", Built environment innovation
&
construction technology, no. 11, February 2000. "BUSHFIRE
DISASTER", Advertiser, 21st January 2003, page
17.
Hallam, Louise . "Ecohouse a winner. A quick-to-construct cyclone and bushfire-resistant building system is attracting plenty of attention", Townsville Bulletin, 23rd January 2003, page 23. "Living with the natural enemy", Australian, 5th January 2002, page 17. "Protecting your home from bushfire", Built environment innovation & construction technology, no. 23, February 2002. Web sites
Bush fire
protection
issues.
Country Fire Service Authority (Vic.) FireWire website includes Community Fireguard programme, and Publications, among them Living in the bush. NSW Rural Fire Service
Selector.com
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information. Encyclopedia
of architecture, design, engineering & construction.
Wiley, New York, 1990.
Ching, F. D. K. Visual
dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Architect's
data. (Neufert) 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell
Science
Publishers, 2000.
Metric
handbook: planning and design data. 2nd ed.
Oxford,
Architectural Press, 1999.
Time-saver
standards for architectural design data; the reference of architectural
fundamentals. 7th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
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building? fire? [leave the default at] all of theseAlternatively, if you are interested in prevention or control aspects of fire and building, change the default, for example: building? fire? [leave the default at] all of theseGo to What does the Library have on my topic? for ways of improving your search results Use INDEXES and DATABASES to find what articles or papers have been written on your topicThese databases use Boolean operators, in most cases it is safe to use the words AND or OR (with brackets) but there may be other codes used for truncation, such as an asterisk *. Search notes are provided for each database but if you don't get the results you expect, please check with the Architecture Librarian, Kay Leverett.The databases listed below cover information on aspects of fire and architecture, including design and building materials. For Australian material use -
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