Reliably and competently assess bushfire risk.

A professionally trained, experienced, and accredited bushfire practitioner will competently assess your bushfire risk and can provide you with practical advice on how to protect your home and family.

Ensure you comply with planning, development and building requirements.

They will ensure that your proposed development complies with all bushfire-related planning, development and building laws and meets the requirements of the Council and the fire services.

Save you money.

A professional assessment of the likely impact of bushfires on your home could save you thousands of dollars in construction costs.

Get you into your new home faster.

Your development can be approved quicker with less inconvenience, as the Council certifies and the fire services trust and recognise the work undertaken by accredited practitioners. This may also save you money.

Provide advice on protecting existing buildings.

Accredited practitioners can advise on protecting existing buildings, including sprinklers, shelters, building upgrades, and landscaping. They can provide you with a bushfire-ready roadworthy report for your home.

EMBER Bushfire Consulting has an accredited Level 3 bushfire planning practitioner.

Level 3 practitioners can assist with complex or sensitive development applications by developing performance-based design solutions or undertake complex fire behaviour modelling as an alternative to the prescriptive bushfire protection measures.