Jerry Tyrrell News Today

Firstly, tendering is a scourge on quality in the industry – lowest price usually wins, and invariably it is too low, and something has to give, inevitably quality. Subbies are pressured to lower their costs, and then pressured further to return to a job they lost money on, to repair defects. The end process is a s**tfight to get something approximating the intended finish. Or the builder folds.

But now there is a revolution: The Building Code of Australia or BCA (rebadged as the National Construction Code or NCC) has been turned into a digital graphic document, called ToolsTM. That is, every part of the Code has been made into 3D images, on a website, and every image can be interrogated to reveal all aspects and details of each part of the BCA.

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