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Ensuring building products are fit for purpose and compliant with regulatory requirements
Ensuring building products are fit for purpose and compliant with regulatory requirements
Complimenting the NBPC Good Practice Conformity Guide, this course help businesses that manufacture or supply building products in Australia to develop and implement effective practices for sourcing, developing, updating and providing trusted building product information.
Explore how steel is regulated in Australia, the risks you should be aware of, and how to avoid these risks by correctly identifying certified steel.
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.
Manufacturers or suppliers can strengthen the credibility, clarity, and verifiability of their building product information and claims by adopting this good practice checklist.
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).
Statutory building surveyors require information that demonstrates products, materials and assemblies requiring assessment against the evidence of suitability requirements of
the NCC and referenced standards. The information must be adequate to enable evaluation that the product is fit to be used for its intended purpose.
Sourcing credible and verifiable evidence often relies on conformity assessment, which is a set of processes that show a product, service or system meets the requirements of a standard. A key feature of good practice in conformity assessment is the use of impartial and accredited testing, inspection and certification of products to establish and verify the claims of manufacturers.
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.
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.
An industry-wide initiative supported by the Australian Steel Institute to build a federated digital trust ecosystem for the construction supply chain — enabling every construction product to carry a verifiable digital identity from manufacture to end-of-life.
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.
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.
