The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) is committed to ensuring practitioners of all experience levels can understand and apply the code. To support you in your job and education, we regularly produce resources such as news articles, videos, infographics and case studies.
You can search the resource library by the topic you’re interested in, your profession or by a specific resource name. Each of our sites has its own resource library which focuses on topics specific to that site. Hence, NCC-related material is collected in the NCC Resource Library and so forth. If there’s something specific you would like to see made into a resource, please get in touch.
Provides guidance to use these Verification Methods in NCC Volume One for ramps and access to and within a building.
This Interim Consultation Report summarises the key themes raised by stakeholders and gives a broad response to each theme.
Assists in better understanding and applying Part F2, Sanitary and other facilities DTS Provisions.
Provides an overview of options available to demonstrate compliance with the NCC.
Provides information about the grouping of buildings as they are referred to in the NCC. Find out about the classifications of all buildings with this useful reference.
This corrigendum changes expiry dates contained in NCC 2019 and NCC 2019 Amendment 1 relevant to some NCC referenced documents.
This toolkit contains a variety of written and visual resources for stakeholders to share information about the WaterMark Certification Scheme across media and communication channels.
This report is a quantified risk assessment relating to the risk to vulnerable occupants in Class 9 Buildings associated with bushfire attacks in designated bushfire prone areas.
This report indicates the likely design and cost implications of complying with the revised Section G of NCC Volume One on a range of ‘example’ buildings.
In March 2022, the Board agreed to implement new bushfire provisions for certain Class 9 buildings in the NCC.
The new requirements will apply to:
This resource has been developed to provide guidance on how plumbing regulations work in Australia.
This video provides an overview of how to use the ABCB’s Lighting Calculator for Non-residential Class 2 Common areas, Class 3, Class 5 to 7 and Class 9 buildings.
Shows the performance-based design process when selecting fans based on system resistance and fan efficiency as part of the energy efficiency of a new retail building.
Relates to the application of the DTS Provisions for energy efficiency in NCC Volume One for fans.
Shows a performance-based design process for the ventilation for a university building using adaptive thermal comfort and predicted mean vote (PMV) for energy efficiency.
The NCC 2019 lighting calculator assists in understanding and applying the NCC Volume Two, Part 3.12.5.5 Artificial lighting Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions for energy efficiency.
Shows the performance-based design process for a house in a flood hazard area. It is recommended to read in conjunction with the Developing a Performance Solution process document.
This infographic gives an overview of the project timeframes and working group participants for the NCC 2022 energy efficiency project.
The focus of this video is on the NCC provisions for access for people (including those with disability) in Volume One.
This video explores the purpose and operation of the WaterMark Certification Scheme for plumbing and drainage products.