Our projects target urgent resilience needs on the Kurilpa peninsula.

Resilient Kurilpa members are active in listening, advocating, documenting, educating and sharing flood knowledge and resources that can strengthen the flood resilience of our community.

Our projects to date

Apartment-dwelling communities

  • Ongoing information sessions where body corporate committees, building managers and residents share flood mitigation planning knowledge.

  • Promotion of the comprehensive, locally-developed and Flood Mitigation Plan for Kurilpa Apartments Template covering planning for people and infrastructure via preparedness, response and recovery.

Community education and advocacy

  • Submissions post flood to Brisbane City Council and Queensland State Government.

  • Media engagements with the ABC local radio and publications in the Westender.

  • E-petition to Queensland State Government to include apartments in financial recovery assistance.

  • Research partnership with Griffith University Design PhD candidate to collect flood stories, develop the Kurilpa Flood Library, a tool to support community flood education and planning.

  • Crowdfunding to develop the the Resilient Kurilpa website, library and insights blog to record and share our local, growing knowledge base on flood mitigation strategies.

  • Research into flood insurance availability and affordability now and in future.

  • Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness training for two Resilient Kurilpa members to facilitate planning with people with disability and support networks.

Tin and timber communities

  • Housing forum in August 2022.

  • Home assessments and design solutions for adaptation-positive residences outlined by architectural and engineering experts.

  • Advice about recovery programs including Resilient Homes Fund, and flood insurance issues and options.

Warnings, evacuation routes and hubs

  • Flood gauge provision in West End.

  • Spatial analysis to provide evacuation routes at different flood levels.

  • Relevant route signage and real-time information per intersection during flood events.

  • Liaison with Energex about their transformer strategy to match the spatial analysis and consider, where possible, the chance to minimise vulnerability of high-rise infrastructure to outages.

  • Kurilpa Flooded Intersections Map to spread awareness of transport limitations during flood and mitigate evacuation risks in future.