2019 NCC Seminars: Building Code of Australia update (Part 3)

As subject matter experts,
we have an SME network,

SME setting for subject matter experts.

This is an initiative of
their performance work,

where we've actually
found some practitioners,

experts in industry and
we've invited them to become

subject matter experts
affiliated with the ABCB

and that affiliation
means number of things.

It means that they are
available to answer questions.

So you can log an inquiry
across our website and actually

speak to a subject matter expert.

We have some to do with fire safety.

We've got subject matter
experts who are for engineers,

we got subject matter
experts, access consultants,

we have SMEs in energy
efficiency and some who spread

across the various disciplines
and they are there to help

you with those performance
solutions which are a little

bit more generic such as ceiling heights

and things like that.

So do look out for SME network
and do look for opportunities

to become educated by them
and that education does come

in the form of then going
around and doing presentations.

They do that anyway.

Sometimes they might be
presenting with an ABCB

affiliation, sometimes
they're out there anyway,

on the conference circuit,
I think one of various SME

in America recently or soon.

So have a look for our SME network.

They are there to assist you
in using performance solutions.

I'll put the slide on later,

but I can't get to it now
because it's about 30 slides

that way and that was
the NCC 2019 resources.

Because like I said before,
we haven't covered everything.

There's a lot of stuff that
we haven't been able to put

into today's seminar to help you with that

is the list of amendments
but also to help you with

that is the Energy Efficiency
seminars which are coming up

with the property council later this year.

There's also the Fire
Protection Association Australia

seminars, the FPAA seminars to suit

the new FPAA documents
for sprinkler systems

in buildings worse than 25

metres effective high yet for,

stories of four or more, I
mentioned that we're doing is

tailored education programme

for the fire safety verification methods.

So do look out for that one and of course,

a lot of content

for next year

comes into effect sorry, a
lot of content in NCC 2019

comes into effect in 2020.

So that's our energy efficiency
provisions and the FSB

and the fire safety verification methods.

So look out for this
seminar series next year.

It's very likely that a lot
of that content will feature

in this series and publications.

We've got all our handbooks,
brand new handbooks

for brand new verification
methods, existing handbooks,

which have been up even advisory notes

which are sitting out there and available

for our use, for download from our website

and being updated to reflect
the new content in NCC 2019.

So, if you have a question
about something you might even

find a handbook or an advisory note,

which covers the material
that we're putting out,

NCC 2019 plenty of resources,

the practically the entire
office has been beavering away

on these resources lately.

I mentioned also wood solutions

woodsolutions.com that I use.

So if you find yourself doing
a timber mid rise building

for building other than class two, three,

other than class two, class
three or five because now in

NCC 2019, classifications
woodsolutions website.

You'll find a handbook
there to help you use

the new use the provisions
in these new ways.

And of course, that list of amendments

I really can't underline that enough,

because there are a lot
of changes that we haven't

covered and the list of
amendments which we're on your

chair and also available at the website.

The seminar website is very
important document to alert

you to what the changes for NCC 2019 are.

NCC 2019 most of it, first
of May this year will

be the current code.

But of course, as we mentioned earlier,

if we're talking about
adoption of NCC 2019,

we can't do that without
mentioning the transition period

for energy efficiency, that
ends on the 30th of April 2020.

After that date, you must use NCC 2019.

Until then, you can use NCC 2016.

But of course because the
changes are so extensive,

you can't mix and match, between the two.

And of course, a fire
safety verification method,

not a part of the NCC until
the first of May, next year.

But for everything else,
first of May this year,

you'll be using NCC 2019
as the current code.