Steel frames and trusses for Toowoomba

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What to know about building in Toowoomba

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

• Toowoomba Regional Council publishes a flood risk information portal where residents can look up a property's flood risk level.

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• The Toowoomba Regional Planning Scheme includes Bushfire Hazard, Flood Hazard, Landslide Hazard, Heritage and Neighbourhood Character overlays.

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• Under the Toowoomba Regional Planning Scheme flood overlay code, the flood planning level for finished floors is the Defined Flood Event + 300 mm in FR1 areas and + 500 mm in FR2-FR4 areas.

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• The 2021 Census counted 108,398 people and 47,979 private dwellings in the Toowoomba urban centre, where 18.4% of occupied dwellings were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses.

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• The Bureau of Meteorology's TOOWOOMBA station (041103, elevation 691 m) recorded a mean annual rainfall of 944.0 mm over 1869-2007 and a mean maximum temperature of 22.6 °C.

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• Toowoomba Regional Council's Gowrie Creek Flood Risk and Management Study (2012), commissioned after the January 2011 flash flood, found that East Creek road crossings through the city have a 10-20% or greater chance of flooding each year and that 43 buildings have a 1% or greater annual chance of flooding.

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• In 2015 Toowoomba Regional Council completed $25 million of flood mitigation works on West Creek and East Creek, including new detention basins at Ballin Drive Park and Garnet Lehman Park and channel upgrades between James Street and Creek Street.

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• The Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (Toowoomba Bypass) is a 41 km toll road passing Toowoomba on its northern side, linking the Warrego Highway at Helidon Spa to the Gore Highway at Athol.

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Frame design in Toowoomba

Wind classification

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

Flood levels

Check Toowoomba Regional 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

Bushfire mapping

Toowoomba Regional Council maps bushfire hazard areas; steel framing is non-combustible, and your certifier sets the requirements.

Character and heritage

Overlays in Toowoomba can drive rooflines and verandah details; frames follow your approved drawings.

Owner-builder? QBCC permit rules and what a kit includes