The federal government has unveiled a suite of measures to cut red tape around Australia's building guidelines in a bid to speed up housing developments. The government promises cutting red tape to ...

Anyone who has built or renovated their own home will know how complex the National Construction Code (NCC) can be. And so, too, does the industry itself. It must keep up with minimum standards for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following last week’s economic reform roundtable in Canberra, the federal government has announced it will be pausing changes to ...

The NSW Supreme Court recently clarified when a previous concession in the Building Code of Australia (BCA) could have ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In the 10 years from 2011, the length of the rule book for building houses in Australia almost ...

Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Ilan Wiesel ...

A neighborhood was destroyed by a tornado that struck Joplin, Mo. 13 years ago. Thirteen years after a tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., killing 161, destroying a large medical center, and leveling ...