Bio-Based Building Materials: Risks, Benefits & Compliance
$99.00 GST
Bio based materials carry a real sustainability case and a real compliance problem. Both need answering before you specify.
This intermediate one hour CPD course covers bio based building materials in the Australian construction context: what they offer, what the risks are, and how they sit against compliance requirements.
Fully online and self paced. Your certificate is issued the moment you finish and is stored in your account.
Description
By the end of this course, you will be able to separate what the National Construction Code asks of a material from what its sustainability claim asserts, and answer only the question that decides approval. The evidence of suitability provisions in NCC 2025 are worked through form by form, so you can name which of the six forms of documentary evidence suits a product and what a complete package looks like before you ask a supplier for it. Combustibility is taught as a test result rather than a description, with the assembly rule and the minor degree provisions applied to grown materials that resemble tested ones. NCC 2025 also rewrote the external wall condensation provisions, and the course traces them onto monolithic bio-based walls, where a required drained and ventilated cavity changes wall thickness and every opening in the building. Two case studies, a hempcrete wall that lost its non-combustible claim and a straw bale house in climate zone seven, show where these specifications fail and what the record should have held.
This CPD provides general guidance on professional responsibilities and documentation practices. It does not constitute legal advice or replace project-specific contractual or statutory obligations.
