This handbook provides guidance on the energy efficiency requirements for Class 2 apartment buildings. It also complements the Housing energy efficiency handbook. Together, these handbooks are intended to help you understand and comply with the latest…
Performance Solution scenario This Performance Solution scenario has been developed to assist plumbing practitioners in formulating Performance Solutions concerning high rise apartment stacks. This scenario demonstrates the performance design process…
There’s new energy efficiency requirements and compliance pathways for apartments in NCC 2022.
Here’s an overview of what you need to know.
This video from the NCC 2022 Webinar Series held in March 2023 covers the changes to apartment energy efficiency in NCC 2022.
These changes will make it easier for apartment buildings with centralised heated water systems to comply with the NCC.
PCD 2025 - Apartment energy efficiency - centralised heated water systems
The ABCB Roadshow events provided insights into proposed changes to the next edition of the National Construction Code (NCC). Stakeholders, industry professionals, and the public engaged with ABCB staff during these events.
On 1 May 2015, Western Australia (WA) adopted the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA) as the primary technical compliance standard for plumbing work.
If you think a product or material may be non-conforming you can contact the relevant authorities by visiting the Jurisdictional contacts page and select your state or territory.
The Australian Building Codes Board is made up of eighteen members including a Chair, the head of each state and territory building administration, a Commonwealth building policy representative, up to seven industry representatives, and a…
The Australian Building Codes Board is a standards writing body responsible for the National Construction Code, the WaterMark Certification Scheme and the CodeMark Certification Scheme.
The case study of the Manhattan on the Park Apartments, a 17 storey building with 330 residential apartments and ground floor retail, demonstrates how a sanitary drainage Performance Solution can be used to meet the Performance Requirements of the NCC…
Technical report for PCD 2025 - Apartment energy efficiency - centralised heated water systems.
A lot has been said and debated about the recent Grenfell Tower apartments’ fire in London. It is not intended to repeat or extend that here
You may have heard there are new whole-of-home (WOH) energy efficiency requirements for residential buildings in NCC 2022. But what does this actually mean?
This case study of a residential apartment building is applied using the NCC provision A2.2(4). This four-step process demonstrates a sanitary drainage Performance Solution.
This document explains the requirements for reducing thermal bridging in residential buildings focusing on metal-framed walls, roofs, ceilings and floors. It provides practical guidance on compliance options and methods to improve energy efficiency and…
Simon Croft from the Housing Industry Association (HIA) outlines what the NCC 2019 changes mean for the residential sector and what all building professionals will need to know.
This updated report presents an order of cost estimate for the proposed changes to the National Construction Code of Australia (NCC) to include mandatory minimum accessible housing provisions for new Class 1a (single residential) and Class 2 (…