Five Rings
Site → Perimeter → Shell → Life Systems → Recovery
Weather Protection · complete-property resilience
Protect the building. Control the water. Reduce the heat. Keep essential systems working.
Apollo NZ Global treats severe weather as a connected property problem. Wind, flood, fire, heat, coastal exposure and infrastructure interruption can interact, so the strongest protection strategy starts with the failure pathway rather than a shopping list of products.
Wind Flood Fire Heat Outage
Whole-property method
Protect from the outside in. Plan for what happens next.
Weather resilience is strongest when the site, building shell, essential systems and recovery pathway are considered together.
01SiteTerrain · drainage · vegetation · access
02PerimeterWalls · hardscape · barriers · near-building zone
03ShellRoof · openings · vents · edges
04Life SystemsPower · water · communications · cooling · sanitation
05RecoveryAccess · records · drying · repair · next action
Failure Pathway
What fails first, what happens next, and where can the chain be interrupted?
Survive · Function · Recover
Protect the structure, preserve essential use, shorten the recovery path.
Protection Dividend
Compare everyday value as well as hazard-day value.
72-Hour House
Stress-test shelter, water, sanitation, food, communications and temperature.
Resilience Passport
Record evidence, limits, maintenance and the next useful intervention.
Weather Protection divisions
Seven connected hazard pathways. One property system.
Available now
Hurricane & Cyclone
Complete-Building Protection for wind, debris, glazing, doors, garages and vulnerable openings.
Open pathwayAvailable now
Flood Protection
Demountable barriers, rapid temporary defence and opening protection for ground-level water entry.
Open pathwayComing soon
Stormwater & Rainwater
Control runoff before it reaches the building using drainage, attenuation, infiltration and storage pathways.
Open pathwayAvailable now
Coastal & Storm-Surge
Coordinate wind, salt, surge, erosion, water entry and remote-service requirements around exposed sites.
Open pathwayPlanning pathway
Extreme Heat & Solar Control
Reduce solar gain before increasing cooling demand through exterior shading, screens and opening strategy.
Open pathwayComing soon
Wildfire & Ember Protection
Reduce ember entry and ignition pathways around vents, roof edges, openings and the near-building zone.
Open pathwayPlanning pathway
Building Resilience
Coordinate the site, shell, life systems and recovery plan for new builds, renovations and existing properties.
Open pathwayPlanning pathway
Resilient Property Framework
Use the Five Rings, Failure Pathway, Protection Dividend and 72-Hour House Test to decide what matters first.
Open pathwayRange development
Current systems plus the next verified product families.
Coming Soon means the category belongs in the Weather Protection programme, but the final supplier, model, technical evidence and project limits are still being verified before Apollo publishes a product specification.
Coming soon
Self-rising flood gates
Automatic or hydrostatic-deploying flood-gate systems for suitable entrances and access points.
View related pathway Coming soonStormwater attenuation + infiltration
Underground modular crates, detention and infiltration pathways for site water control.
View related pathway Coming soonFlood detection + high-water alerts
Early-warning sensors and alert pathways that complement physical barriers and drainage.
View related pathway Coming soonCoastal geotubes + erosion systems
Project-specific shoreline, embankment and erosion-control pathways for exposed sites.
View related pathway Coming soonEmergency pumping + water storage
Flood pumping, rainwater and emergency-storage pathways for continuity planning.
View related pathway Technical verificationWildfire ember protection
Ember-resistant vent, mesh and near-building protection products subject to verified technical evidence.
View related pathway01Weather protection strategy
A building is a protection system, not a collection of gadgets.
Severe-weather losses often happen as chains: an opening fails, water enters, power is interrupted, a pump stops, a lower room floods, and recovery becomes larger than the first defect. Apollo maps those chains so one intervention can interrupt the most consequential pathway.
02Weather protection strategy
Start outside the building and work inward.
The property should be read in layers: the site and water path, the perimeter, the building shell and openings, the life systems that keep the occupants functioning, then the recovery pathway. That keeps product selection connected to the actual property.
03Weather protection strategy
Standing is not enough: Survive → Function → Recover.
A resilient property should resist the event, preserve essential functions where practical, and make cleanup and repair less punishing when the event exceeds the protection in place. Apollo uses those three outcomes when comparing systems.
04Weather protection strategy
Weather Protection is specification-led, not catalogue-led.
Hard ratings, tested spans, impact claims, water depths, fixings, electrical interfaces and fire-performance claims stay tied to the exact product and project. New families can be shown as Coming Soon while sourcing and technical verification are still underway.
Apollo method
MAP → PRIORITISE → VERIFY → INTEGRATE → MAINTAIN
Map the hazard and building interfaces. Prioritise where failure has the greatest consequence. Verify the exact product evidence and local design requirements. Integrate structure, drainage, power, access and recovery. Maintain the system so the protection remains real rather than historical.
Technical evidence standard
Framework first. Exact evidence before claims.
The planning framework helps identify what to protect and which questions to ask. Actual structural, flood, electrical, wildfire, drainage and product-performance decisions remain tied to current local requirements, exact supplier documentation and qualified professional input where required.
Apollo NZ Global · International project supply
Build the weather-protection package around the property.
Send the location, plans, photos, opening dimensions and the weather risks you are trying to manage. If a product family is still marked Coming Soon, we can also use the project brief to guide sourcing and technical verification.