Steel frames and trusses for Agnes Water, engineered for cyclonic sites

Supplying Agnes Water from Crowley Vale

What to know about building in Agnes Water

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

• Gladstone Regional Council has prepared a Seventeen Seventy Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Plan to address coastal hazards on the neighbouring 1770 shoreline.

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• In the 2021 Census, 31.8% of Agnes Water's private dwellings were unoccupied on census night.

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• The Bureau of Meteorology's Seventeen Seventy station (039314) records a mean annual rainfall of 1,126.2 mm (1986-2026).

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• Gladstone Regional Council describes Agnes Water and 1770 as sitting at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef and as the most northerly beach on the east coast to regularly receive Tasman Sea swell.

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Council-wide planning notes for Gladstone Regional Council: see the Gladstone page

Frame design in Agnes Water

Cyclonic Wind Region C

Queensland Government guidance places coastal areas north of Bundaberg, including Agnes Water, in cyclonic Wind Region C, so frames and trusses here are engineered for a C1 to C4 site classification. Source · How wind classes work

Salt exposure

Agnes Water is a coastal town. Tell us how far the site is from the water: coating and detailing are chosen for it. · Coatings and coastal sites

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