Apartment Toolkit
Below you’ll find resources for our growing community of body corporates, building managers and residents to draw on and adapt for their apartment.
Join our Apartment Network on Facebook to connect and share your flood planning queries with us and other Kurilpa apartment-dwellers.
Attend or watch our recorded webinars on apartment flood planning, insurance, volunteers and renters support, and more.
Develop a Flood Mitigation Plan for your apartment.
Use our Flood Mitigation Plan Template as a guide to help you to:
Keep a record of flood impacts and mitigation works to minimise flood risks now (and for future residents and owners).
Establish and define roles and responsibilities.
Develop communication, evacuations and safety procedures for responding to floods.
Develop communication materials and checklists that support your apartment community to prepare for floods.
1. Review guidance to help you develop your plan
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Step-by-Step Flood Planning for Apartment Buildings
Watch this recorded webinar on flood mitigation planning for apartment buildings with local engineers Adrian Sains and Bruce McNaughton.
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Step-by-Step Flood Planning for Apartment Residents
Watch this recorded webinar to help your body corporate and apartment community prepare residents for floods with Dr Beth O’Brien and Leanne Sturgess.
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Kurilpa Flooded Intersections Map
Learn which intersections in West End are likely to flood to plan for possible evacuation roadblocks and routes.
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Example Flood Mitigation Plan
Read the Riverpoint Apartments (Draft) Flood Mitigation Plan November 2022 as an example of what yours could look like.
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Example Trigger Point Guide
Develop your own Trigger Point Guide by understanding how river heights might correlate to response actions in your building. See Riverpoint Apartment’s as an example guide, correlated to Forbes Street and Ferry Road.
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Example Guidance on River Level Predictions
Understand how to predict river levels with this guidance document developed for Riverpoint Apartments.
2. Add templates to your plan
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Duty Card Templates
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Flood Event Procedure Checklists
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Emergency Contact Lists Template
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Resident Contact Information Template
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Flood Preparedness Card Template
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Assets and Equipment Register Templates
3. Create resident communications
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Resident Preparedness Notice
Print this PDF for your apartment lift and common areas to notify residents about flood preparedness steps.
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Building Communication Notices
Edit and print these Word documents to use in your apartment building during a flood response.
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Notice from Body Corporate to Residents Template
Edit and print this Word document to provide information to residents about building procedures in the event of a flood.
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Example Flood Preparation Notice
An example of A Flood Preparation notice for residents developed by Bridgewater Boardwalk in Kangaroo Point.
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Example Flood Alert Notice
An example of a Flood Alert notice with important information developed by Bridgewater Boardwalk in Kangaroo Point.
Community presentations
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Flood Mitigation Meeting Slides
Revisit the presentation slides from our Apartment Flood Mitigation Meeting hosted by Resilient Kurilpa and Riverpoint Apartments on the 31 October 2022.
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Bridgewater Boardwalk Presentation Slides
Revisit the slides from Helen Ward of Bridgewater Boardwalk in Kangaroo Point who presented at our Flood Planning Conversations workshop on 28 September 2024.