National Construction Code Interactive House

Published 12th October 2016

Did you know that every Standard referenced in the Australian National Construction Code (NCC) related to residential premises? The NCC Interactive House interactive website won an award in 2012.

Standards referenced in the NCC fall under the NCC's Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions and compliance with these Standards represents the most common method of satisfying the NCC performance requirements.

You can explore the NCC Standards interactive house, incorporating the Building Code of Australia (BCA) Housing Provisions (Volume 2) and the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA) (Volume 3) of the NCC.

Also discover which Certification Schemes are relevant to building products through the NCC Standards interactive house.

For instance if we click on the backyard we can see a residential access ramp and when we click on it the backyard ramp calls the ramp refers to AS1428.1 but the actual image does not appear to fully comply given it only has a handrail on one side. My guess would be again this was developed without any consultation with the sector, nor any real understanding.

Unsurprisingly, SAI Global the website and copyright owners have a disclaimer which makes clear that:

The information contained within this service is provided by way of indicative guidance only and neither SAI Global Limited nor any of its related bodies represents that it is accurate or complete or suitable for any particular purpose. The onus remains with users to satisfy themselves of their requirements and needs for their own particular circumstances. This tool does not include state and territory variations and any queries on such matters should be referred to the State or Territory authority responsible for building regulatory matters.