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This Practice Note provides guidance for building surveyors for amending a building permit in compliance with the Building Act 1993 and the Building Regulations 2018.

This practice note explains the exception from Domestic Building Insurance (DBI) requirements that applies to builders of multi-storey residential buildings.

To assist the industry preparing for changes coming in on 1 May 2023, reduce the risk of non-compliant installation of waterproofing systems, and provide an understanding of the key changes for waterproofing for NCC 2022.

Specifies the requirements for the safe discharge of water from a split system air conditioner.

Sustainable building design should consider durability, affordability, resource conservation, intra and intergenerational social equity aspects, and stakeholder’s perspective throughout its service life; this research has applied life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework to estimate the sustainability performance in terms of a single score, and to identify avenues for sustainability improvement strategies of buildings.