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The structural reliability performance requirements of NCC2025 offer opportunities to the suppliers of innovative building products and systems. This is a summary of the key points for the determination and use of structural reliability indices. 1. The purpose of including quantified structural reliability requirements within the mandatory Parts B1P1 and H1P1 of NCC 2025 is … Read more

The NCC is intended to be a performance-based building code, although many of the requirements have previously been vague, unquantified, prone to legal challenge and subject to difference of opinion by various expert witnesses. While this does not (necessarily) represent a problem for those parts of the building design that are covered by NCC-referenced DTS … Read more

Australia should learn from the Gulf States dilemma. Is #AUKUS worth the risk? Does #PineGap make Australia a target? Which is the greater threat to our sovereignty… our biggest #Trade partner or our #Tariff enemy? Military non-alignment now. Read #QueensPawnToD4 by #RodJohnston

The recent National Press Club presentation discussing opposition proposals to gut the #NCC (National Construction Code) unmasked the complete ignorance of the need for building regulations, the current structure of the NCC and (most important) the way to reform and use it. Yes… it is long and complicated, but this results from the mistaken previous … Read more

“The NCC performs multiple functions beyond minimum safety standards. It is also a mechanism through which industry transformation can occur ….” This is an important statement from an insightful paper by Andrea Sharman (School of Property, Construction and Property Management RMIT), the summary of which is reproduced below. As an industry representative on the Building … Read more

“Queen’s Pawn to D4” by Rod Johnston will shortly launch on the NSW #CentralCoast This #Geopolitical #Novel describes international intrigue through a plot that stretches from the Canberra jungle to the jungles of Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Describing a future in which Australians must choose between #MilitaryNonalignment and old alliances, between peace and war, … Read more

Sensible #regulations based on well researched consensus #Standards such as #IBQC Guidelines is essential to minimize risk of catastrophic #building failures as well as excessive cost. Visit RodJohnstonAUS@gmail.com for more comment. Read #QueensPawnToD4 by #RodJohnston

A worldwide listing of seismic peak ground accelerations is very useful information, because it serves to alert structural engineers and building code regulators of necessary design differences around the world. By way of example, the approaches in Australia and New Zealand are different, hence the different earthquake loading standards. But the differences should not lull … Read more

The Australian National Construction Code NCC has historically been confined to regulating building design to preserve health and safety, e.g. prevention of building collapse. By adopting Deemed-to-Satisfy Australian Standards, it does (to some extent) also consider serviceability. In recent decades, the building regulations have been extended to also encompass societal issues such as climate change … Read more

So this is why Australia needs AUKUS … to defend our trade with China against disruption by #China. https://www.facebook.com/reel/820059264378647 Leave #AUKUS now… before it is too late. Join the peaceful countries of the world in #military #nonalignment. Read #QueensPawnToD4 by #RodJohnston 35K views · 371 reactions | Australia’s Defence Policy explained… in a way. Sort … Read more