With the transition of NCC 2025 from 1 May 2026 to 1 May 2027, we will see an important step forward towards a modern building code.
The National Construction Code, for the first time, will specify simple, achievable, verifiable quantified performance requirements for structural performance. This enables various deemed-to-satisfy solutions to be developed, verified and published by industry associations, designers, Standards Australia and the like, confident that they will be achieving a consistent and acceptable level of structural reliability.
This is just a first step. Other parts of the NCC also need to adopt simple, achievable, verifiable quantified performance requirements, in order to achieve design innovation and efficiency.
A modern NCC must define requirements but should NOT (as in the past) try to define one (of a possible many) design solutions. The NCC should stick to defining requirements … not be drawn into providing design solutions. That is the role of others.
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