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PUT YOUR FEET UP!
If you didn’t make it to BAF, the next best option to being
there is to view recordings of the presentations. The ABCB
filmed the full range of presentations, so visit their website
) and look to the bottom left corner for the
BAF 2015 Conference tab – Presentations Online.
The technical presentations catered for both building
and plumbing streams and were interspersed with some
interesting presentations including a futurist, the architect
behind Channel 9’s The Block as well as some leading
architectural/construction sector thought leaders.
So, off with the NetFlix for a couple of nights and take in a
selection of the recorded presentations and you’ll make up
for some lost ground (but not the useful networking).
Hand in hand with the push to a performance based code
direction is the option of developing your own Alternate
Solutions for individual project needs. This subject can
be somewhat challenging for practitioners but there are
now ample resources on the ABCB website to explain the
principles and the process to develop a performance/
alternate solution.
Over the coming issues, this magazine will publish real
examples of Alternate Solutions and how the owners of
those solutions achieved their results and the benefits of
that work.
THE FUTURE OF BAF
Developing and managing an event such as BAF 2015
takes lots of time and effort and certainly does side-
track the ABCB from its important and cumbersome code
development tasks. There was rumour that this might have
been the last such national event, I hope that’s not the case.
With the move to a 3-year amendment cycle for the NCC,
there’s still good reason to provide an opportunity for the
sector to get together, even if it is 3-years apart, for those
ever-important face to face discussions.
Building Australia’s Future
THE PROGRAM IS:
City Date Venue
Canberra 17 February National Convention
Centre
Hobart 19 February Hotel Grand
Chancellor
Brisbane 23 & 24 February Brisbane Convention
Centre
Darwin 26 February Darwin Convention
Centre
Perth 3 & 4 March Perth Convention
Centre
Adelaide 7 March Adelaide Convention
Centre
Sydney 9 & 10 March National Maritime
Museum
Melbourne 16 & 17 March Melbourne
Convention Centre
You can book your seat from the ABCB website, further
information by emailing or call
1300 134 631
NCC 2016 NATIONAL SEMINARS - COMING YOURWAY
With the next amendment to the NCC coming into
effect from 1 May 2016, the ABCB is presenting a series of
seminars around the capital cities, where you will be able
to hear and engage with presenters, explaining the various
changes.
These events will be well attended, so book early and note
it in your diary.