ASBN Webinar: Improving Product Compliance Through Traceability

Please join the ASBN and the National Building Products Coalition (NBPC) for a webinar to review the NBPC developed Traceability and Digitalisation of Building Product Information Implementation Guide for the Australian Construction Industry and note emerging influences around the regulatory settings for building products, in which traceability will play an important role.

The guide is designed to be used by building product manufacturers, suppliers and building practitioners to implement digital traceability systems that provide unambiguous information regarding the identity, origin, transformation, location and attributes of building products.

This guide will be particularly helpful for designers who specify products in being able to check for provenance, evidence of suitability and other information necessary to select compliant and fit for purpose building products. It will also provide the foundational elements to be used to implement digital traceability along the entire construction supply chain and across all product types. In doing so, it links a product with information on its safe and reliable use. The traceability of products in projects will also assist sustainability and net zero opportunities as we look to have greater transparency in building material performance, carbon emissions and potential for circular economy reuse.

The NBPC is an industry alliance established to advance the implementation of the National Building Product Assurance Framework (the Framework), which forms part of the response to the Building Confidence Report developed by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) at the direction of Building Ministers. The ASBN is delighted to collaborate with the NBPC to bring awareness to this industry guide.

To start, we will receive a presentation from Neil Savery, Managing Director of ICC Oceania, and Dyan Johnson, General Manager of Policy and Advocacy of Master Builders Queensland. After their presentation we will follow with a case study from Dr Andrew Wheeler, Executive Director of Australasian Certification Authority for Reinforcing and Structural Steel (ACRS) and finish with a Q&A panel, where the presenters will be joined by Chris Knierim - Building Designers Association of Australia (BDAA), Beata Davey - Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and Adam Lee - Engineers Australia.

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About the Speakers

Neil Savery
Neil Savery is the Managing Director of ICC Oceania, an arm of the US based International Code Council, which develops the model I-Codes, promotes building safety and provides practical solutions for practitioners who work in the building sector. As part of this and other associated international collaborations, he is involved in policy subjects such as building safety, embodied carbon, life-cycle assessments, modern methods of construction, digital product traceability and building resilience.

Prior to this Neil was the Chief Executive of the Australian Building Codes Board for nine years, having been a Board member for eleven. As part of this role, Neil oversaw the development of the Building Confidence Report National Implementation Framework, which included development of the National Product Assurance Framework.

Dyan Johnson
An urban planner and policy manager, Dyan drives the policy and advocacy agenda for Master Builders Queensland, with the challenge of building confidence and building quality central to the agenda. She works on building regulation reform both in Queensland and nationally, serving as a member of the Australian Building Codes Board BCR Implementation Team formed to implement the recommendations of the Shergold Weir Building Confidence Report. Her role within the Team lead to the production of the National Building Product Assurance Framework. She now works within an industry alliance, the National Building Products Coalition, seeking to see the Framework implemented for more certainty and sustainability in building product supply and use.  

Dr Andrew Wheeler
Andrew has a demonstrated history of working as a design consultant and a delivery manager in the construction industry, he has worked in steel and concrete composite structures, steel structures, concrete structures and timber structures, with extensive experience in design, delivery of unique projects, structural material/system testing and implementation of quality systems.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Adelaide Sustainable Building Network acknowledges the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Tarntanya, where our work is most often undertaken. We also acknowledge the Peramangk People of the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Ngarrindjeri of Fleurieu, Coorong and lower Murray regions and the Ngadjuri of the Barossa and Mid-North as the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality recognises the connectedness of people and culture with earth, sky and water country. The land is alive with traces of Dreaming ancestors. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.