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.

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

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.

This corrigendum changes expiry dates contained in NCC 2019 and NCC 2019 Amendment 1 relevant to some NCC referenced documents.

This report is a quantified risk assessment relating to the risk to vulnerable occupants in Class 9 Buildings associated with bushfire attacks in designated bushfire prone areas.