Don't Underestimate the Impact of Being Proactive!
Don't Underestimate the Impact of Being Proactive! One of the most interesting things I've seen come out of the introduction of BCA A2.2(4) last year is the light it has shed on the importance of deliberate and proactive design choices. Furthermore, it has exposed a considerable misunderstanding amongst practitioners of how compliance with the NCC is actually achieved. With the requirements for the performance based design brief and formalization of the technical analysis process, design practitioners need to make active decisions early in the design development on how to tackle compliance - deemed to satisfy, performance solution, or a combination of both. This decision making early in the process is critical to ensure smooth sailing come building permit application time. Gone are the days where a performance (or "alternative") solution was often the result of finding a way of making designs "work" when the deemed to satisfy provisions could not be co...