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Building Code of Australia (BCA)

The Building Code of Australia is produces and maintained by the Australian Building Codes Board on behalf of the Commonwealth government and each State and Territory Government.

The BCA is a uniform set of technical provisions for the design and construction of buildings and other structures throughout Australia. It allows for variations in climate and geological or geographic conditions.

Australian Building Code Board (ABCB)

The ABCB is established by agreement between the Commonwealth Government and each State and Territory Government. It is a co-operative arrangement between the signatories, Local Government and the building industry.

It is responsible to the Planning, Housing and Local Government Ministerial Council, and has a mission to achieve nationally consistent performance based building regulatory systems that are efficient, cost effective and meet community and industry needs.

Goals

The goals of the BCA are to enable the achievement and maintenance of acceptable standards of structural sufficiency, safety (including safety from fire), health and amenity for the benefit of the community now and in the future.

These goals are applied so that the BCA extends no further than is necessary in the public interest, is cost effective, easily understood, and is not needlessly onerous in its application.

State and Territory Variations and Additions

Each State's and Territory's legislation adopts the BCA subject to the variation or deletion of some of its provisions, or the addition of extra provisions.

Legislative Arrangements

the BCA is given legal effect by building regulatory legislation in each State and Territory. this legislation consists of an Act of Parliament and subordinate legislation which empowers the regulation of certain aspects of building and structures, and which empowers the regulation of certain aspects of building and structures, and contains the administrative provisions necessary to give effect to the legislation.

Any provision of the BCA may be overridden by, or subject to, State or Territory legislation. The BCA must therefore be read in conjunction with that legislation. Any queries on such matters should be referred to the State or Territory authority responsible for building regulatory matters.

BCA Decisions

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