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The issue of building resilience and the role of property protection in building codes and standards continues to emerge as a key issue for all levels of government.
Ongoing natural disaster incidents arising from extreme weather conditions are leading governments to question whether homes are located in ‘safe’ places and if not, what actions should be taken.
This issue is starting to receive more and more attention and discussion on potentially strengthening of building codes and standards to address resilience and/or on whether housing should be excluded from certain areas or blocks of land that have the potential to be subject to natural disasters/extreme weather.
The costs of remedial actions to repair homes, mitigation actions to prevent future damage and consideration of new planning and building standards to limit future risks and costs are now top of mind.
The most common events include, bushfires, high rainfall, coastal and inland flooding, heatwaves, sea level rise, cyclones and other high wind events and hail storms.
Many of these major events are followed by inquiries or post incident analysis which leads to recommendations for reforms.
While new land and housing can be seemingly well managed to address these events, the majority of Australia’s existing housing stock already exists. These homes are built to past building code standards and located in areas that may today be considered not appropriate.
Moving forward, these issues need to be considered in light of both new homes and existing housing stock. This points to the need for mitigation and recovery to be the more prominent topics for government attention, rather than new planning and building standards.
Policy endorsed by HIA National Policy Congress: May 2023
HIA provided a response to the Senate Education and Employment Committees on the inquiry into the Free TAFE Bill 2024.
HIA provided a submission on the Revenue Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 to the State Development, Infrastructure and Works Committee.
HIA provided a submission referring to the November 2024 Unfair Trading Practices - consultation of the design of proposed general and specific prohibitions paper produced by Treasury.
HIA provided a submission to Safe Work Australia (SWA) in response to the consultation on the impacts of the proposed introduction of a new workplace exposure limit for respirable crystalline silica.
The Housing Industry Association takes this opportunity to comment on the Government Business Governance Reform Draft Plan.
HIA provided a feedback on the Review of the Home Building Compensation Fund (HBCF) announced by the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) in October 2024.