Building Regulations 2020 Report: 900 Pacific Hwy Project

This report analyzes the building regulations relevant to a proposed project at 900 Pacific Hwy & Fitzsimons Lane, Gordon 2072. It covers various aspects of the National Construction Code (NCC) 2019, including building classification, owner-builder requirements, time limits for work and permits, structural provisions, fire resistance and safety equipment, and access and egress requirements. The report provides detailed explanations of the objectives and clauses related to each section, ensuring the project's compliance. Key areas of focus include fire safety measures, lightweight construction protection, exit signs, structural reliability, and provisions for people with disabilities. The report also addresses time limits for building permits, commencement and completion of work, and the implications of permit lapses. The assignment is structured as a formal report prepared by a fictional building consulting company, including details of the company's objectives, employee roles, and qualifications. The report aims to advise the client, Ponzi Developments, on the project's compliance with the deemed-to-satisfy provisions of the NCC 2019 and relevant Australian Standards.

BUILDING REGULATIONS 2020
Table of content
Part-1 Introduction
Objectives of the regulation
Part 3 National construction code
Classification of building
Relevant building surveyor must determine the classification of a building
For certificates of building for owner-builders Applications are required to be proposed in
this format
Information to accompany the application for a certificate of consent
Application for permit to construct or alter the building
Part 4 Time limits for work and permits
Commencement of work
Completion of building work
Lapsing of the building permit
Notice of imminent lapse of building permit-commencement of work
Notice of imminent lapse of building permit—completion of work
Part 5 Structural provisions
Objectives
Structural reliability
Part 6 Fire and resistance and safety equipment
Objectives of fire resistance
Basis on which these objectives are based
Prevention of spread of fire
Prevention of spread of fire
Protecting lightweight construction
The requirement of exit signs
Fire-protected timber
Smoke hazard Management
Maximum distance of escape route
Part 7 Access and Egress requirement
Minimum necessary Access and Egress this project requires for people with disability
Minimum necessary Access and Egress requirements for this project for general people

Part 8 Health and enmity
Objectives
Subfloor ventilation

Introduction (Building Act 1993)
The following are the objectives of the regulations
(a) To recommend the standards required for the construction and dismantling of buildings;
and
(b) To meet the guidelines of the regulation's requirement which control the design,
construction and use of buildings and places of public entertainment; and
(c) To recommend matters pertaining to the maintenance of buildings and its use; and
(e) To advice the safety standard for places of entertainment purpose; and
(f) To recommend the matters and standard relating to the safety measures and fire safety
(g) To frame the needs for the design and siting of sole occupancy and other associated
buildings; and
(h) To enlist the minimum qualifications requirement and necessity for other matters in
relation to building practioner’s registration; and
(i) To enlist penalty and fees related to Building Appeals Board, matters of the Authority and
the Building Regulations Advisory Committee; and
(j) To provide for other associated matters for the Building Act 1993.
(k) to recommend for matters pertaining to the authorisation of components, construction
methods, designs, building products and all other things related with building work;

Part 2 National Construction Code
National Construction Code of Australia
The NCC is adopted and forms part of these Regulations as modified by these Regulations
mention in the assignment.
Use of National construction code
The expressions and terminologies used have been adopted form NCC 2019 and have the
same meanings as they have in the NCC 2019.
Classification of building
The buildings must be classified as per the guidelines given by NCC (2019).
The surveyor of the building must determine the classification of a building
1) Surveyor of the building must classify the building when executing these Regulations.
2) In case of ambiguity related to the categorisation of a building coming under NCC,
the surveyor of the building must categories the building according to the class it most
closely mimics.

Part-3 Owner Builder
For certificates of building for owner-builders Applications are required to be proposed
in this format (Building act 1993)
(1) For the approval of the certificate, the application form must be under guideline
prescribed by Australian authority.
(2) For BCA act, the application form must contain the following data
a) Building site address where the work is to be carried out
b) Telephone number, name, address and ARBN, ACN or ABN (if required) of all
the owner of the land;
3) Illustration of proposed building work;
4) Cost details of the building work;
5) Description of work which builder is going to do and whether this is done to get
profit or gain;
Information to accompany the application for a certificate of consent
For fulfilment of section 25C(2)(c)(i) of the BCA Act, The application must consist of the
following information
(a) any affirmation or proof of identity, the witness of the applicant that is required by the
Authority;
(b) In case the building site is in process of the Transfer of Land Act 1958, Certificate for
the title will be required before 7 days of date the application for the land
(c) All the evidence of ownership of the land required by the Authority must be submitted if
the land is not in the process of the Transfer of Land Act 1958,;
(d) Within 28 days before the date of the application handwritten agreement from each of the
owner accepting the making of the application must be submitted in case there is multiple
owners of the land.

Application for licence for alteration or construction of the building
An application pertaining to building construction must consist of the following items
(a) Xerox of any permit of plan related to work of the building proposed;
(b) Drawings to a scale of not less than 1:100 showing the proposed plan at each floor
sizes, levels, sections dimensions and the elevations and locations of structural
members, together with any details that are necessary to show compliance to a
scale of not less than 1:20.
(c) Description of type and methodology of construction
(d) Allotment plans statement of the proposed use of all buildings;
(e) Xerox of necessary reports to illustrate that the site work will be if constructed in
the guidelines with the reports and computations, resembles with the Act.
2) The allotment plan must consist of the following matters
a) Dimensions and boundaries of the allotment of the proposed building work;
b) Nearest street intersection;
c) Dimensions & positions of the building and its link to
i) The boundary allotment; and
ii) Allotment consisting of any existing building;
iii) Any part of a land or building on adjacent allotment if required to show
compliance with the Act and these Regulations;
iv) The floors of the building, levels of the allotment, stormwater drain
management and street drainage channel;
d) The point of drainage and layout of drains on the allotment together with details
required to show conformation to the Act and these Regulations;
e) Impermeable surface’s area, locations and dimensions and extent of coverage of
impermeable surface in the allotment if required in compliance with the
regulation.
f) The car parking spaces, dimensions and location.
g) The private open space’s area, locations and dimensions

Part-4
Time limits for permits and building work
Starting time of work
From the time when building paper is issued. Within 12 months of the date of issue of the
building permit the work must get started. Since this is a class 2 building (Building act 1993)
Finishing time of building work
Within 36 months of the date of issue of the building permit project must be completed. Since
this is a class 2 building
Lapsing of building permit
1) When the work on site is not started till the last date of starting time. The buildings
permit lapses.
2) If the work on building site to which the permit applies is not finished till the last day
of the period within which the work must be finished the building permit will lapse.
Once the building permit lapses it no longer remains in force of the Act and these
Regulations.
Notice of imminent lapse of building permit—commencement of work
If the relevant building surveyor has not inspected the first mandatory notification
stage of the work immediately before 30 days before the commencement date of
building work. The building surveyor without delay must give notice to the contractor
for the building permit that applies to the building work of the date on which the
building permit will lapse.
Notice of imminent lapse of building permit—completion of work
If the relevant building surveyor has not carried out an inspection of the final mandatory
notification stage of the work immediately before 30 days before the completion date of
building work including any extension to that date, the building surveyor without delay
must give a notice to the contractor for the building permit that applies to the building
work of the date on which the building permit will lapse.

Part-5
Structural provisions
Objectives: (NCC 2019)
(a) Building should be designed in such a way that during structural failure person must
be able to escape.
(b) To reduce injury from structural failure
(c) To safeguard adjacent property
(d) The building should be designed in such a way that injury of people is reduced up to
the maximum possible extent.
Structural reliability
Consists of two parts:
i) Features that a building is required to have required performance; and
ii) Preventive measures in association with these features.

Part-6
Fire resistance
Objectives of fire resistance (NCC 2019)
(a) Protect people from injury and illness when the building catches fire; and
(b) To provide safe passage in case of fire hazards in buildings; and
(c) To provide proper facilities to emergency personal ; and
(d) to prevent further spreading of fire; and
(e) To prevent injury to the people in case of failure of the structure due to fire.
The basis on which these objectives are based
In case of fire accidents building should
a) Incorporated those features which reduce risk to the people suffering from illness
or injury.
b) Proper designing of exit path which will reduce the risk of them suffering illness
or injury while running to escaping a fire;
c) Providing proper features in building to assist rescuer if it becomes important for
the rescuer to take such actions such as search and firefighting;
d) Preventing fire to spread to the adjacent building;
e) To prevent sway failure of the building that can affect the adjacent building.
The building is to be constructed and designed in such a way that it will
(a) Design of the building is to be done in such a way that will let the people escape safely;
and
(b) Incorporating such features in building that will assist emergency personal to perform
rescue operations; and
(c) Prevent the damage to the adjacent building
Prevention of spread of fire
Since this is a class 2 building so in this building sleeping accommodation should be
provided. So, people get time for evacuation. On the ground floor level of the project, Least
Fire Resistance Level (FRL) for the external loadbearing members is 90/ 90/ 90 (NCC 2019)

Protecting lightweight construction
Protection of lightweight construction is required because in general, it is more vulnerable to
failure than other heavy wall construction materials, such as brick masonry thicker than 70
mm and concrete during fire incidence. Lightweight construction is permitted only in those
areas in which steel column or similar materials are used.
In this building which comes under Type B construction. The components which need to be
protected from fire are common wall, external wall, lift pit’s floor framing and whole floor,
loadbearing firewalls, all loadbearing internal walls (including those of shafts), garbage non-
loadbearing lift, ventilation, pipe and alike shafts which do not facilitate spread of fire and
hot products of combustion and non-loadbearing walls needs to be resistant against fire.
The requirement of exit signs
A visible photoluminescent exit sign must be provided in the building to facilitate entry of the
person into the building. A photo luminescent exit sign must fulfil the following
requirements:
(a) It should always be charged and should emit at least illumination of 100 lux with a
colour temperature of at least 4000 kelvin; and
(b) In case of power cut-off, it should provide a minimum luminance of 30 mcd/sqm for
the minimum duration of 1hour 30 minutes; and
(c) Checking of performance at regular intervals by testing it standard conforming to
ASTM E2073-10
The emergency lighting system must be located at
(a) In every stairway which is fire-isolated or fire-isolated ramp;
(b) In each hallway, corridor, passageway, or alike, which have a length from the nearest
doorway opening to the entrance doorway of any sole-occupancy residency unit in a
Class 2 part of a building of not more than 6m directly to
(i) Fire isolated ramp, fire-isolated passageway or fire isolated stairway; or
(ii) An external passageway serving replaced by fire-isolated stairway under; or
iii) An external balcony giving passage to a fire-isolated ramp, fire-isolated
passageway or fire-isolated stairway; or
iv) an open space or road

a) An intercom system and sound system for emergency warning purposes during
calamity conforming to Australian Standard 1670.4 must be incorporated.
Fire-protected timber
Places where fire-protected timber is required a minimum FRL of must be incorporated so
that protection against fire is achieved for the building elements.
Criteria for achieving minimum Fire resistance level:
a) Non-combustible covering to safeguard against the spread of fire of not less than 45
minutes when tested under Section 4 of AS 1530.4 (see Clause2.1(a)(ii)(A));
b) Minimum two layers of 13mm thickness, to achieve the minimum FRL of element
fire-protective grade plasterboard fixed in the manner given in (Clause 2.1(a)(ii)(B))
of NCC.
Excess Smoke Management
Smoke alarms complying with AS 3786 must be incorporated in the building for smoke
hazard management and should be connected to consumer's main source. Furthermore, heat
and smoke vents must also be started by smoke detection alarms.
The maximum distance of escape route
A maximum of 20m of distance is allowable from any direction of building as prescribed by
NCC code.

Part-7
Accesses and eagerness requirements
Minimum essential Access and Egress this project will require for people with disability
b) For every 100 car parking 1 space or part, thereof will be required for a person with a
disability.
c) The following standard suggested by Nation construction code to braille:
i) Braille and tactile signs are required to be located at not lesser than 1200mm and
must not be higher than 1600mm from floor surface level.
ii) To make escape path clear during period of low visibility i.e. fire in building
Braille and tactile signs will required to be illuminated to ensure visibility during
emergency conditions of a fire.
iii) As per the criteria set out by Australian Braille authority Braille will need to be of
Grade 1 braille (uncontracted).
iv) The shape of braille must be domed and raised.
v) Pinpointed braille at 8 mm below the text’s bottom line (excluding descenders).
vi) Left justified braille must be used.
vii) For braille readers, a solid arrow must be provided, when an arrow is used in the
tactile sign.
viii) A semi-circular shaped braille locator at the left margin must be aligned
horizontally with braille text’s first line, on signs which consist of multiple lines
of characters and text.
Minimum necessary Access and Egress requirements for general people are
i) Shaft opening must be kept safe from fire doors with minimum FRL of -/60/30.
ii) The material used for the covering of floor below the fire door should not
combustible.
iii) A smoke detector must be located on both sides of the opening and should not be
more than 1.5m in the horizontal direction from the opening.

iv) To facilitate safe escaping condition all doors opening into the shaft should not be
more than 20m from the exit.
v) Signs guiding the escape path of nearby exit must be located at places that are
visible.
vi) Braille and tactile signs are required to be located at not lesser than 1200mm and
must not be higher than 1600mm from floor surface level
ix) To make escape path clear during a period of low visibility i.e. fire in building
Braille and tactile signs will require to be illuminated to ensure visibility during
emergency conditions of a fire.

Part-8
Health and amenity
Objectives
The building must be constructed to resist:
a) Leakage of water of rainwater from roofs and walls due to improper waterproofing
b) Leakage of water through a low lying opening
c) Seepage coming out due groundwater through permeable walls and floor
The intensity of storm considered
Strom intensity of repletion period of 1 in 20 is considered for the design of the building. This
limit is assumed to be fair for design purpose, to the person liable for construction of the
building and the person liable for building affected by re-directed surface water.
Subfloor ventilation
Prevalent dampness in building may result in the following:
(a) Poor health conditions and perilous conditions or loss of amenity for the residing
persons
(b) Higher humidity levels and degradation of building components on subfloor level.

REFFRENCES
Sections 7, 9, 15A, 261 and 262 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Building Act 1993.
NCC 2019 Volume 1, Section C, Part 1, Subsection C1.3
Building Act 1993, Volume 1, Section 25, Part C, Subsection (a)
Building Act 1993, Volume 2, Section 25, Part C, Subsection (c), clause (i)
Building Act 1993, Volume 2, Section 25, Part C, Subsection (b), clause (i)
Building Act 1993, Volume 1, Section 25, Part C, Subsection (2), clause 4(2)
NCC 2019, Volume 1, Section C, Part CO1
NCC 2019, Volume 1, Section C, Part 3, Subsection 3.10, clause (c), Sub-clause (i)