Access and egress

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

This handbook provides guidance on the energy efficiency requirements for Class 2 apartment buildings. It also complements the Housing Energy Efficiency Handbook.

This handbook provides guidance on the NCC requirements for livable housing design, including the ABCB Standard for Livable Housing Design.

This ABCB Voluntary Standard (‘Voluntary Standard’) is a set of non-mandatory technical provisions that if complied with will enable dwellings to better meet the needs of the community, including o

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.

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

This corrigendum provides a correction to the preview draft of NCC 2022 Volume One.

Provides guidance to use these Verification Methods in NCC Volume One for ramps and access to and within a building.

Provides an overview of options available to demonstrate compliance with the NCC.

Provides information about the grouping of buildings as they are referred to in the NCC. Find out about the classifications of all buildings with this useful reference.