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YIMBY Melbourne's Jonathan O’Brien argues Melbourne "can no longer have a city that is patches of towers joined by the flat carpet of single detached dwellings.

Guardrails and handrails are essential safety measures in any work environment that has elevated structures like roofs, walkways and access platforms. It is crucial that guardrails and handrails are properly designed according to the relevant Australian standards and installed for the safety of all employers, employees, and visitors. Download this whitepaper for a concise guide to the guardrail and handrail requirements under AS 1657.

Mathew Aitchison who heads up the Building 4.0 CRC has been advocating for a federal building minister for a while now. He also wants to rewrite the way we do construction in this country. After the CRC’s conference at Monash College at Melbourne’s Docklands this week, both those things look closer than ever.

Metal roofing, walling, facades and structural components are subject to a wide range of legal and technical requirements. As buildings grow in height and complexity, it will be even more difficult to keep track of the building codes, standards and regulations that will apply, requiring all stakeholders in the building supply chain to have a thorough understanding of their compliance responsibilities.

Access all onsite construction requirements with a hardcopy of the National Construction Code (NCC). When you purchase a hardcopy, youll also get special access to HIA fact sheets and information to download and add to your resources when updates happen. Volume One: Commercial Buildings (Class 2–9) Volume Two: Residential Buildings (Class 1 and 10 Buildings). Order your copy today.

For optimal reliability and safety, accurate internal design pressures must be applied to all building designs. To achieve this, it is essential for architects, designers and specifiers to understand the recent changes to AS/NZS 1170.2, which sets out the procedures for calculating wind speeds and resulting wind actions to be used in structural design.

It’s time to act as quickly as humanly possible. This week, Australia’s leading engineers and technology experts from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering have called for Australia to get to net zero 15 years quicker than our current goal of 2050 to be more consistent with a 1.5℃ trajectory.

A series of experiments and simulations have been conducted to investigate how natural (i.e. buoyancy and wind-driven) ventilation through cavities formed behind steel cladding can influence the thermal and hygric (i.e. moisture-related) performance of walls in Australia. Changes to the National Construction Code (NCC) in 2019 introduced requirements for the thermal resistance of cavities to be calculated using methods outlined in the new standard AS/NZS 4859.2:2018. These calculation methods re...

For optimal reliability and safety, accurate internal design pressures must be applied to all building designs. To achieve this, it is essential for architects, designers and specifiers to understand the recent changes to AS/NZS 1170.2, which sets out the procedures for calculating wind speeds and resulting wind actions to be used in structural design.

The Sustainability Summit features a pivotal session titled Why 10-Star Homes Will Become the Norm in Residential Design. But How to Get There? which will address a fundamental shift in the aspirations of homeowners and builders beyond the mandated 6-star energy rating stipulated by the National Construction Code.