{"id":22888,"date":"2019-07-18T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/?p=22888"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:06:38","slug":"national-building-agreement-welcome-now-focus-on-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/national-building-agreement-welcome-now-focus-on-action\/","title":{"rendered":"National building agreement welcome, now focus on action"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Australian Institute of Architects has welcomed the agreement today from the Building Ministers\u2019 Forum (BMF) to take a national approach to implementing all 24 recommendations of the Shergold-Weir Building Confidence<\/em><\/a> report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attending the industry roundtable in Sydney this morning, the Institute was also supportive of discussions that envisaged an expanded role for the Australian Building Codes Board and looks forward to the release of further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National President, Professor Helen Lochhead, said the Institute had been calling for national consistency and the uniform adoption of the recommendations from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Today\u2019s announcement is a welcome and positive step towards rebuilding public confidence in Australia\u2019s construction industry that we fully support and endorse,\u2019 Professor Lochhead said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Industry, and most importantly consumers, can have some assurance that there will be a nationally consistent approach to addressing these complex and deeply concerning issues plaguing the construction industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018With this agreement in place the focus now needs to be on action and putting clear timeframes for implementation of each and every recommendation, building on the plan the BMF released in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Shergold-Weir report, now 18-months old, specified a three-year timeframe for the implementation of its recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018There is a huge amount of work still to do and the urgency of pursuing both reforms and rectification works in the interest of public safety must not be allowed to wane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We will also be working collaboratively with other stakeholder associations to continue to improve practice.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute said measures to ensure the consistent registration of qualified building practitioners across all jurisdictions and reform to ensure continuous, truly independent certification of building works throughout construction, must be priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute was also looking forward to updates from the BMF on key actions agreed at its meeting in February, including Ministers\u2019 in principle agreement to a national ban on the unsafe use of combustible ACPs in new construction and legislating a duty of care to building owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For media enquiries contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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