Voluntary home buy-back demolitions and materials recovery in Maryborough, Queensland

Home buy-back demolitions giving a new lease of life to building materials

4 May 2023
The end result of Queensland’s voluntary home buy-back initiative is the demolition of severely flood-impacted homes, however, this doesn’t mean the end of the line for many of the building materials.
One of the flood-impacted homes currently being broken down and demolished in Maryborough through the Voluntary Home Buy-Back Program.

Home demolitions begin on Fraser Coast following voluntary buy-backs

26 April 2023
Demolition works have now begun in Maryborough on homes bought back under the Voluntary Home Buy-Back Program, with many materials set to be reused or recycled.
LiDAR imagery of the base of Mount Coonowrin, Glass House Mountains on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Shining a new light on Queensland in the name of flood risk management

5 April 2023

Accurate and up-to-date surveys of the physical terrain are critical in developing flood studies.
SEQ flood recovery on track

SEQ recovery on track 12 months after devastating floods

30 March 2023
Of the 8,698 homes and businesses identified as damaged following the catastrophic SEQ floods of 2022, 6,744 properties, nearly 80 per cent, are now damage free once again.
Betterment - Pilbeam Drive

Decade of Betterment making Queensland infrastructure better

24 March 2023
Since the first Betterment Fund was established in 2013, the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) has worked with councils and state agencies to deliver a wide variety of infrastructure projects across the state.
Scuba's Car and Dog Wash in Gympie, one of the thousands of businesses impacted by the 2022 SEQ floods.

Recovery grant helps Scuba's Car and Dog Wash emerge from Gympie flood disaster

23 March 2023

Scuba's Car and Dog Wash in Gympie had been running for almost eight years when it was completely submerged by the highest recorded floods to hit the region in 120 years.
Voluntary Home Buy-Back

More than 100 homes settled for voluntary buy-back

16 March 2023
Queensland’s Voluntary Home Buy-Back Program, part of the $741 million Resilient Homes Fund, has hit a new milestone with more than 100 flood-impacted home settlements complete.
DARM recovery officers inspect a flood-damaged property in Brisbane, Queensland.

Monitoring repairs, reconstruction and recovery following severe disaster events in Queensland

14 March 2023

The Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) introduced Damage Assessment and Reconstruction Monitoring (DARM) in 2011 following a summer of disasters in 2010-11.
A Structural Assistance Grant helped Leah pay for her replacement caravan.

Structural Assistance Grants helping disaster-hit Queenslanders back into their homes

9 March 2023

In February 2022, Leah and her son were living in a caravan on her parents’ property north of Gympie. Two weeks before the flooding, she had moved the caravan to a new position on the side of a hill.
Maleny Botanic Gardens

Better natural disaster resilience for Queensland tourism operators

2 March 2023
More than 30 tourism resilience initiatives across Queensland are set to be supported through the $5 million Building Resilient Tourism Infrastructure Fund, part of a $7 million Tourism Recovery and Resilience package launched last September.
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