Highlights from the proposed NSW building regulation reforms The NSW government is consulting on an enormous package of reforms to over eight Acts and regulations. The reforms also propose … [Read more...]
More changes ahead for the Building Act – new bill introduced into the Victorian Parliament on 21 June 2022
See our article on the proposed amendments - More changes ahead for the Building Act … [Read more...]
Building confidence: A report for the Building Ministers’ Forum in Australia has spearheaded efforts to reform regulation and improve safety
In September 2017, Prof. Peter Shergold and I were commissioned by the Australian Building Ministers’ Forum (BMF) to assess the country’s building regulation systems. The BMF, which comprises state, … [Read more...]
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Is it time for governments to remove the mandatory professional indemnity insurance requirements for building surveyors?
There was a lot of press during 2019 about the state of the professional indemnity insurance (PII) market in Australia for private building surveyors (also known as building certifiers). We heard of … [Read more...]
Better Buildings & Consumer Protection
This article was first published in the AIBS Building Surveyor magazine issue 2/2019 How do we regulate so that buildings get built properly? AND What do we do to protect consumers when buildings … [Read more...]
Summary of cladding ‘bans’ in Australia
Summary of cladding 'bans' 31 Oct 19 … [Read more...]
Lacrosse Decision – What does this all mean?
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal's decision relating to the combustible cladding fire at the Lacrosee Tower in Melbourne's Docklands was delivered in March 2019, over 4 years after … [Read more...]
Examining common themes in the Shergold Weir and Hackitt Reports
The Building Confidence report prepared by Professor Shergold and Bronwyn Weir for the Building Minister's Forum in Australia was released in April 2018. Two weeks later, the UK government released … [Read more...]
Aluminium Composite Panels – ‘attachments’ and ‘bonded laminated materials’
I recently read with interest the following article claiming that in most cases combustible cladding identified in cladding audits around Australia are likely to have been installed on buildings in … [Read more...]
Registration for trade contracors and amendments to facilitate the state-wide cladding audit program
Last week the Minister for Planning, the Hon Richard Wynne, introduced the Building Amendment (Registration of Trades and Other Matters) Bill 2018 into the Victorian Parliament. The Bill makes … [Read more...]