{"id":743,"date":"2019-04-10T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/?p=743"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:05:07","slug":"air-tightness-discussed-in-legislative-assembly-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/2019\/air-tightness-discussed-in-legislative-assembly-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Tightness Discussed in Legislative Assembly, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\">ATTMA <\/a>was delighted to see air leakage testing being discussed in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly on 20<sup>th<\/sup> March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was as part of Temperature Management Strategies discussion on residential premises. This was due to the summer of 2018\/19 being the hottest on record and as they experienced record-breaking heat which may occur more frequently in the future due to climate change. Heatwaves are the deadliest type of natural hazard in Australia so energy efficiency in homes is very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air\nTightness testing has become very popular in Australia due to the inclusion of\nair-leakage in the latest National Construction Code (NCC) draft where it\nstates that a new verification method has been added as <em>\u2018an option for\ncertain buildings to demonstrate compliance with P2.6.1 (f) for building\nsealing. V2.6.2.3 is a means of verifying the sealing of buildings by air\nleakage testing\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V2.6.2.3 states compliance with P2.6.1(f) is verified when a\nbuilding envelope is sealed at an air leakage permeability rate of no more than\n10 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/hr\/m<sup>2<\/sup> @50pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air leakage was discussed in the Assembly as part of improving energy efficiency in new homes, as it was found out that during last summer, homes that were only 5 years old were barely inhabitable due to the heat, even with air-conditioning in them. Air leakage testing is directly related to energy efficiency due to the design and building of homes. The Legislative Assembly called on the ACT Government to improve designs to reduce summer heat inside new homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACT\nGovernment were also called to investigate the expansion of the Energy\nEfficiency Improvement scheme, so to keep Canberrans cool during heatwaves.\nImprovements can be made to the Energy Efficiency Rating (EER) system without\nhaving to wait for national reform. This could be done by requiring separate\nnational EER rating tool (NatHERS) for winters and summers, or by setting\nmaximum air-leakage standards and basing the ratings on Australia\u2019s future\nhotter climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Source: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.act.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcb.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Building Codes Board National Construction Code <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTMA was delighted to see air leakage testing being discussed in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly on 20th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[37,39],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airtightnesstesting","tag-australia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:56:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}