In May 2014, the Building Code of Australia changed a range of provisions that pertained to Part 3.1.3 headed 'Termite Risk Management' based on advice provided in a TAG 'Proposal for Change' that was presented upon to the National Technical Summit of the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) in 2007. In 2007, TAG was advised in a letter from the ABCB to take the issue to Standards Australia as the ABCB believed the situation could be more appropriately addressed in the first instance througRead More....

Imagine both the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) Building Code of Australia (BCA) and Standard Australia's referenced Australian Standard (AS 3660.1 - 2000) for New Building Work Termite Management both describing termite management systems as termite barriers and, the BCA providing advice that these termite barriers provide termite protection when they can be walked over within minutes by termites! Even worse, whaRead More....

A recent News Release (See ABCB News Release - Overview of Termite Risk Management proposed changes) from the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) tried to portray a circumstance whereby the ABCB, in the previous two years, had only just become aware of a major problem with the ‘Barrier’ Status’ providRead More....

In the first instance, this article is prefaced with a description provided by an on-line dictionary to define both a bureaucrat and a bureaucracy so that an immediate understanding is provided to readers as to the severe restrictions and limitations of these functionaries in being able to partake in the process of facilitating the provision and administration of preconstruction termite management provisions and regulations for which they have little, if any, understanding thereof. Read More....