Learn about our work and how to engage with us.
Since the 2022 Brisbane floods, Resilient Kurilpa members have been active in listening, advocating, documenting, and sharing locally-developed flood knowledge and resources to strengthen the resilience of the broader Kurilpa community (and many others!)
Many of the resources on this website are conceived and designed by our volunteer and professional network members, who draw on their own expertise and lived experiences of flood events.
Residents and volunteer community groups (such as Body Corporate Committees) are free to use the resources on this website to strengthen their flood response in a residential context.
Engaging with Resilient Kurilpa network members:
Organisations and government agencies seeking to inform their flood resilience strategies and programs may reference and link to our online resources with attribution to Resilient Kurilpa. Or contact us to enquire about collaborating with our network members.
Past work
Apartment-dwelling communities
In-person and online recorded information sessions where body corporate committees, building managers and residents share flood mitigation planning knowledge.
Promotion of the comprehensive, locally-developed and Flood Mitigation Plan for Kurilpa Apartments Template covering planning for people and infrastructure via preparedness, response and recovery.
Community education and advocacy
Submissions post flood to Brisbane City Council and Queensland State Government.
Media engagements with the ABC local radio and publications in the Westender.
E-petition to Queensland State Government to include apartments in financial recovery assistance.
Research partnership with Griffith University Design PhD candidate to collect flood stories, develop the Kurilpa Flood Library, a tool to support community flood education and planning.
Crowdfunding to develop the the Resilient Kurilpa website, library and insights blog to record and share our local, growing knowledge base on flood mitigation strategies.
Research into flood insurance availability and affordability now and in future.
Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness training for two Resilient Kurilpa members to facilitate planning with people with disability and support networks.
Tin and timber communities
Housing forum in August 2022.
Home assessments and design solutions for adaptation-positive residences outlined by architectural and engineering experts.
Advice about recovery programs including Resilient Homes Fund, and flood insurance issues and options.
Warnings, evacuation routes and hubs
Flood gauge provision in West End.
Spatial analysis to provide evacuation routes at different flood levels.
Relevant route signage and real-time information per intersection during flood events.
Liaison with Energex about their transformer strategy to match the spatial analysis and consider, where possible, the chance to minimise vulnerability of high-rise infrastructure to outages.
Kurilpa Flooded Intersections Map to spread awareness of transport limitations during flood and mitigate evacuation risks in future.
