{"id":793,"date":"2019-03-12T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/?p=793"},"modified":"2019-05-29T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T08:58:17","slug":"abcb-releases-new-2019-ncc-air-tightness-test-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/2019\/abcb-releases-new-2019-ncc-air-tightness-test-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Building Codes Board releases new 2019 NCC Air Tightness Test Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Building Codes Board have released the Air Tightness Test requirements for the updates Building Regulations in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In summary, Air Tightness Testing has been added as an optional requirement to demonstrate compliance, rather than the more arduous methods of demonstrating the detailing used throughout the building process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NCC now includes:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dwellings<br>Volume 2 Section V2.6.2.3<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Compliance with P2.6.1 (f) is verified when a building envelope is sealed at an air permeability of not more than 10 m<\/em><sup><em>3<\/em><\/sup><em>\/hr.m<\/em><sup><em>2<\/em><\/sup><em> at 50Pa of pressure when tested in accordance with AS\/NZS ISO 9972 Method 1<\/em><\/li><li><em>More for residential house, and an option for verification which isn\u2019t mandatory<\/em><\/li><li><em>Part 3.12.3 talks about sealing windows and lights to comply. <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Non Dwellings <br>Volume \u2013 Section JV4<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Testing as a verification method for section J, the energy efficiency part of the regulations. <\/em><\/li><li><em>It covers all the climates zones and building types with a different requirement based on the building type and climates zone. <\/em><\/li><li><em>Mostly for commercial buildings.<\/em><\/li><li><em>One method to verify the building envelope which isn\u2019t mandatory. The alternative and most likely, 99.9% of the time is \u2018deemed to satisfy\u2019 or performance solution method which is a front end compliance before the building is built. <\/em><\/li><li><em>Permeability of either 5 or 10 depending on what type of the building and what climate zone.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Building Codes Board have released the Air Tightness Test requirements for the updates Building Regulations in Australia.\u00a0 In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[39,58],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-test-requirements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 07:37:28","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\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}