Fire safety

Provides guidance on the process for developing NCC Performance Solutions across all Volumes of NCC 2022.

Provides guidance on applying the NCC 2022 evidence of suitability provisions across all volumes.

This report is a cost-benefit analysis of a series of options identified by Weir Legal & Consulting for the Building Product Assurance Framework (BPAF).

This report was commissioned to identify and explore regulatory options to progress the Building Product Assurance Framework (BPAF).

This report provides an overview of the proposed regulatory options for the progression of the Building Product Assurance Framework (BPAF).

In June 2024, Building Ministers approved the ABCB Business Plan for 2024-2025.

This Standard provides a set of technical provisions that if complied with enable dwellings to better meet the needs of the community, including older people and people with mobility limitations.

To support Australians making the switch to electric vehicles (EV), the National Construction Code (NCC) is requiring new buildings to be ready for EV charging.

The Bushfire Verification Methods handbook assists in understanding the Verification Methods for building in bushfire prone areas in NCC Volume One and Volume Two.

This document provides a table highlighting the BCA 2022 references compared to the BCA 2019 references.

CFD analysis to calculate Total R-values and mitigation requirements for thermal bridges in ceilings and suspended floors with adjacent airspace.

Generalised simplified calculation method to calculate thermal bridges in ceilings and suspended floors with an adjacent airspace. (Includes process to deal with battens, encapsulation).

This Fire Safety Verification Method provides a process for engineering the design of fire safety Performance Solutions.

This report summarises the research on the impacts of thermal bridging mitigation (TBM) undertaken to

A review of industry feedback and approaches to upgrading to 7-star building fabric

This report details a range of technical modifications to both the method and underlying assumptions

This report describes the costs and benefits of increasing ratings in Class 1 dwellings from 6 to 7 stars, and in Class 2 buildings from a 6-star average (with a minimum of 5 stars) to 7 average (w

Decision Regulation Impact Statement for a proposal to increase residential building energy efficiency requirements

Decision Regulation Impact Statement for a proposal to increase residential building energy efficiency requirements

The corrigendum to NCC 2019 has been updated to align the expiry dates with the new date for NCC 2022, being 1 May 2023