What are essential safety measures, and who must maintain them?
Sprinklers, alarms, exit signs, fire doors and fire-rated walls only protect people if they are maintained. Who must do it, and how each state checks.
Fire Safety
Passive fire, cladding, essential safety measures, bushfire and emergency planning.
Passive fire protection explained: compartments and fire-stopping
How the NCC uses fire-resisting construction, compartments and fire-stopping to contain a fire, what an FRL means, and what evidence and maintenance it takes.
Fire-stopping service penetrations: what inspectors look for
How C4D15 and Specification 13 govern service penetrations, what evidence proves a fire-stopping system complies, and the defects inspectors look for first.
Building in bushfire-prone areas: BAL ratings and AS 3959
What each BAL rating means, how bushfire prone land is mapped, how the NCC calls up AS 3959 and the NASH Standard, and who assesses a site.
Combustible cladding in Australia: rules, risk and remediation
Why cladding became a national issue, what the NCC requires of external walls, how Victoria, NSW and Queensland restrict ACP, and where remediation stands.