Ambitious targets have been put in place by government and industry to improve the environmental sustainability of buildings, particularly with regard to reducing carbon emissions.
To date, efforts to achieve these targets have focused largely on additional layers of regulation for new construction, bypassing those for existing buildings that do not meet the modern requirements. They also fail to provide interventions where they could have the greatest effect.
Resilience is intended to be included as an objective in the next iteration of the National Construction Code. As regulators consider how resilience is to be applied in practice, they must start with a detailed understanding of the risk; its nature, scale, and where it could occur.
Master Builders wants to work with government to develop a system-wide approach that achieves the objectives in the most cost-effective and practical way.
What we are going to work to deliver
Advocacy with government:
- 1. Help homeowners to transition to more energy efficient and resilient homes by expanding and extending the two successful schemes in Queensland targeting existing homes: the Household Resilience Program (wind) and the Resilient Homes Fund (flood). Provide similar programs for commercial buildings.
- 2. Adopt a system-wide approach to addressing resilience that encompasses planning, infrastructure, investment and insurance and moves ahead of any resilience measures being included in the NCC.
- 3. Ensure the Queensland Government's actions to achieve net zero in the building and construction industry are implemented in a practical and reasonable way which does not add further regulatory or cost burden on the delivery of new construction.
Master Builders-led initiatives:
- Education for members on building practices for more resilient and environmentally sustainable buildings.
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