Industry Reports
Letter from BPIC to Ben-Morton MP on COVID-19-Building-Supply-Chain-Security
Gain confidence that your building products comply
Understand the severity of the problem
Professor Shergold and Ms Weir made 24 recommendations to the Building Minister's Forum in their report, "Building Confidence - Improving the effectiveness of compliance and enforcement systems for the building and construction industry across Australia.
Strategies to minimize the risks
The issue of non-conforming building products, whether domestically manufactured or imported, is an important and complex challenge of national significance. It can have life safety, health, economic, legal and social consequences.
BPIC Construction Products Conformance Guide
This guide will help Industry Associations that represent building product manufacturers, suppliers and installers to advise their constituents about how to manage product conformance data under new minimum necessary Non-conforming Building Product - Chain of Responsibility legislation requirements and new National Construction Code requirements.
A Guide to managing product substitution
This guide will help designers, contractors, clients, building certifiers and building owners to manage product substitution (using building products other than those originally specified or
requested). It provides an easy 3-step control process for managing the possible risks.
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Gaps and weaknesses in the building and construction conformance framework
Local producers conforming with relevant standards and regulations can be at a competitive disadvantage when the price at which competing product is sold reflects lower levels of attention to the quality that is required under Australia's conformance framework.
QLD Building & Construction Legislation (Non-conforming Building Products - Chain of Responsibility and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017
to regulate building products to ensure -
(i) the safety of consumers and the public generally; and
(ii) persons involved in the production, supply or installation of building products are held responsible for the safety of the products and their use.
(ii) persons involved in the production, supply or installation of building products are held responsible for the safety of the products and their use.
A Guide to Australian Building Product Conformity
Independent 'third-party' certification is recommended for products which have a high risk of failure, or where the consequences of failure are likely to be significant.
The Senate
Economics Reference Committee
Non-conforming building products: the need for a coherent and robust regulatory regime
(December 2018)
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Shergold Weir Implementation Plan
The implementation plan for the recommendations of the Shergold Weir Report
was released 20 May 2019.
