Steel frames and trusses for Noosa Heads

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What to know about building in Noosa Heads

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

• Noosa's Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan identifies areas along the Lower Noosa River, including Noosa Heads, as increasingly at risk of inundation from rising sea levels.

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• The Noosa Plan 2020 flood overlay maps areas affected by a modelled 1% AEP flood for the year 2100, including storm tide.

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• In the 2021 Census, 37.6% of the 3,491 private dwellings in Noosa Heads were unoccupied on census night, compared with 9.3% across Queensland.

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• The Bureau of Meteorology's Tewantin RSL Park station (040908), the nearest current station to Noosa Heads, records a mean annual rainfall of 1,607.8 mm (1996-2026).

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• Noosa Council's Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan (2021) notes that Noosa Main Beach erodes on an annual basis and that a sand recycling system commissioned in 2012 and a buried boulder seawall from the 1960s beneath the Hastings Street boardwalk limit shoreline recession.

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• The same plan assesses the coastal-erosion risk to all built assets along the Noosa Main Beach beachfront as already intolerable, and relies on minimum floor heights for new buildings to manage tidal inundation risk in Noosa Heads.

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Frame design in Noosa Heads

Wind classification

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

Salt exposure

Noosa Heads 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

Flood levels

Check Noosa Shire 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

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