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Building Product Information - Good Practice Conformity Guide

The Guide is a tool to support improved building product quality and certainty through increasing the availability and use of appropriate building product information. It includes a checklist for sourcing credible and verifiable evidence of manufacturers’/suppliers’ claims.

Building Product Information - Checklist for Manufacturers & Suppliers

Manufacturers or suppliers can strengthen the credibility, clarity, and verifiability of their building product information and claims by adopting this good practice checklist.

Testing, Inspection and Certification for Building Product Conformance

This simple ‘how-to’ guide is a supplement to the Good Practice Conformity Guide [DJ1] ; a document that describes good practice behaviours for those seeking and providing building product information in the building products supply chain.

The BPIG is a tool to support improved building product quality and certainty through increasing the availability and use of appropriate building product information. It includes a checklist for sourcing credible and verifiable evidence of manufacturers’/suppliers’ claims.

Evidence of Suitability - Proposal for Change

Proposal to change NCC Parts A5G1, A5G2 and A5G3 to improve clarity and consistency. If implemented the changes will help reduce uncertainty and better ensure that compliance information is clear, reliable and trusted across the construction industry.

Building Product Information - Questions to Ask for Specifiers & Installer

Specifiers and installers - Start by asking these questions when working to determine whether a building product or system has the necessary evidence to establish it is suitable to use in the design and construction of a building, including conformance with the requirements of the National Construction Code (NCC).

Building Product Information - Traceability and Digitalisation Guide

A Guide that explains how digital traceability can be implemented in real-world settings and how consistent data systems can benefit every participant in the supply chain. It aims to support organisations as they transition from paper-based and/or fragmented data processes toward integrated digital product information systems. It outlines what data needs to be collected, how it can be verified, and how it can be shared securely and efficiently across the entire supply chain.

National Building Product Assurance Framework

The National Building Product Assurance Framework is the nationally agreed response to recommendation 21 on building product safety from the Building Confidence Report.

The Framework sets out five proposed deliverables under five elements. The Framework is holistic and while the elements can be progressed separately, they are intended to be delivered as a coordinated package with ongoing and focused effort..The ultimate aim of the Framework is to help ensure that building products are used in a way that complies with the NCC.

Building Confidence Report

An assessment undertaken by Profession Peter Shergold and Bronwyn Weir of the effectiveness of compliance and enforcement systems for the building and construction industry across Australia.

At the time it was regarded as a watershed moment for our industry to begin to address the problems that had the potential to undermine public trust in the health and safety of our buildings.