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Originally Posted by Alchemy
Given these houses are built on frequently flooded land, whatever happened to he queenslander home built on stilts ?
With today's engineering you should be able to use steel poles for the supportnwhich will take a moderate "bash" and a bit of current.
Perhaps not if you are in the centre of an extreme hit but just flooding... One wonders.
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I agree.
I use to live in Moree which is on a great big flood plain with black soil as foundations.
Despite this the building code was that all new buildings or renovations had to have floor level 500mm above the highest known flood (1954). Only the old houses don't comply and lots of them have been lifted on stilts to comply.
I'm not sure why the same rules wouldn't apply in Brisbane. Many of the houses we are seeing flooded on the media images are not old houses.
Have the Qld councils in these areas decided not to bother with similar rules?