Building performance standards — star ratings of energy efficiency — were introduced in Australia in 2003 and then toughened in 2006 and 2011. However, the steady increase in house sizes there has ...

New building rules in Australia allowing “all-gender” toilets have raised safety concerns for girls and women, according to a ...

Anyone who has built or renovated their own home will know how complex the National Construction Code (NCC) can be. And so, too, does the industry itself. It must keep up with minimum standards for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following last week’s economic reform roundtable in Canberra, the federal government has announced it will be pausing changes to ...

The Australian Building Codes Board delays a ban on plumbing products containing lead by two more years, despite backlash from the industry.

Geoff Hanmer has received research funding from the Building and Construction Council (BACC) NSW. A prestige apartment building in Sydney built by a well-known developer is undergoing a second ...

TrinaTracker has announced that its 1P tracker system has been validated by the inspection and certification organisation RINA Tech Renewables, for compliance with the Australian building codes and ...

Laddie Assey, a Sydney-based mechanical engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the building industry, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site last month about fire safety faults at the Q1 tower on ...