Beyond Minimum: Proposition for Building Surveyors to Exceed the Minimum Standards of the Construction Code

Tim Law

doi:10.1061/(asce)la.1943-4170.0000463

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AbstractThe Australian National Construction Code lays out the minimum necessary standards for buildings. As building regulations have grown more onerous, the cost of construction has also become m...

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This paper describes the practice of building surveying in Australia
The minimum standard of the National Construction Code (NCC), together with those set by state and local governments, is in commercial reality the maximum that a building surveyor can require of clients, be they architects, builders, developers or homeowners
To summarize by way of application, the NCC requires that in places such as Melbourne (Climate zone 6) the walls must be wrapped with vapor permeable membranes — sarking that is exempt from the non-combustibility test, and adopting a flammability test method that is ill-suited to plastics — made from the same material found in the cores of combustible cladding that the Victorian government is spending A$600 million to replace

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This paper describes the practice of building surveying ( called building certification in some states) in Australia. The minimum standard of the NCC, together with those set by state and local governments, is in commercial reality the maximum that a building surveyor can require of clients, be they architects, builders, developers or homeowners.

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