Steel frames and trusses for Ipswich

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What to know about building in Ipswich

From Ipswich City Council, state agencies, the Bureau of Meteorology and the ABS. Each item links to its source.

• The Ripley Valley Priority Development Area (4,680 ha, about 5 km south-east of the Ipswich CBD) could develop into 48,750 dwellings housing about 131,000 people.

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• Ipswich City Plan 2025 maps flood risk in overlay OV12 'Flood Risk and Overland Flow' using five development-related flood risk categories.

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• Ipswich City Council's historical flood mapping tool shows the 1974, 2011 and February 2022 flood extents.

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• The 2021 Census counted 2,468 people in the Ipswich central suburb, where 15.0% of occupied dwellings were flats or apartments.

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• The Bureau of Meteorology's Amberley AMO station (040004), the nearest current long-record station to Ipswich, records a mean annual rainfall of 857.3 mm and a mean maximum temperature of 26.9 °C over 1941-2026.

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• The Bureau of Meteorology estimates that over 7,000 Ipswich properties are flood-affected once the Bremer River exceeds 19.25 m on the Ipswich gauge at David Trumpy Bridge, which peaked at 24.5 m in 1893, 20.7 m in 1974 and 19.40 m in January 2011.

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Frame design in Ipswich

Wind classification

Set lot by lot in Ipswich under AS 4055; send us your site's classification with the plans. · How wind classes work

Flood levels

Check Ipswich City Council's flood information for the lot first. If it sets a minimum floor level, a raised steel floor system is one way to meet it. · Steel floor systems

Growth-area builds

Repeated house designs in Ipswich's growth areas suit factory-made frames: each repeat is made to the same engineered drawings. · Steel framing for developers

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