- Title
- Risk-based cost-benefit analysis of climate adaptation measures for Australian contemporary houses under extreme winds
- Creator
- Qin, Hao; Stewart, Mark G.
- Relation
- Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience Vol. 1, no. 3
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43065-020-00002-1
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Climate adaptation measures improve housing resilience to extreme winds, and reduce economic losses associated with wind and rainfall damage under a changing climate. Several adaptation measures are adopted in this study for Australian contemporary houses subjected to non-cyclonic windstorms to either reinforce the building envelope or increase the water resistance of building interior. A risk-based cost-benefit analysis is conducted to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these adaptation measures that considers the effect of construction defects. It was found that the annual expected losses for houses in Brisbane with construction defects are considerably higher than those without considering construction defects, whereas the influence of construction defects is lower for the Melbourne houses. The cost-benefit analysis reveals that strengthening windows is cost-effective for Brisbane and Melbourne houses. Installing window shutters significantly reduces economic risks associated with extreme winds and is cost-effective for houses in Brisbane. Adaptation measures are generally not cost-effective for Melbourne houses due to lower extreme wind speed and associated rainfall.
- Subject
- Australian contemporary houses; non-cyclonic windstorms; economic losses; construction defects; risk-based cost-benefit analysis; climate adaptation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1416283
- Identifier
- uon:37024
- Identifier
- ISSN:2662-2521
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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