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BCA & INDUSTRY NEWS BPIC MAINTAINING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE BCA & INDUSTRY NEWS Last month, the Building Products Innovation Council (BPIC) farewelled chief executive, David Sharp, who has returned to the “land of the long white cloud” to rejoin BRANZ as Business Development Manager. David has been a very popular figure at ABCB conferences and Building Code Committee meetings for over 10 years and impressed everyone with his technical knowledge and his “Yorkshire” sense of humour which was used to great effect when he MC’d many conference dinners. David played a most significant role in the future of the building industry through his management of the BPIC Industry Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP), an Australian Government supported project that that will produce a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) for building materials. This sound, transparent data system will improve the sustainability of the building and materials industry across Australia. David will continue to contribute to the project wearing his BRANZ hat. BPIC’s 10 major building material Maintaining BPIC’s direction; Ian Frame with David Sharp national associations have provided valuable support and participation in this project which will provide: • a level playing field methodology for use in the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building products and materials • an extensive database of LCI data for construction materials and products, all compiled in accordance with the methodology • a database of replacement lives for materials, products and assemblies used in Australian buildings • an LCA protocol that will describe how the LCI data should be used. e.g by LCA Tools and Ecolabels. The BPIC LCI database is a joint initiative by BPIC, BRANZ, the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS) and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research. The project, due for completion in November 2010, is now at an exciting stage where the building product associations have agreed on a methodology and are now collecting LCI data. The project team has engaged with a wide group of stakeholders through a national series of Weighting Workshops held in 11 cities, designed to establish how Australians judge the relative importance (weighting) of environmental issues and risks. Ian Frame, who was Executive Director Building Product Associations contribute to the Life Cycle Inventory Database of the Australian Window Association for 20 years has taken over the CEO role at BPIC. Ian was secretary of BPIC for seven years, after playing a leading role in its establishment in 2002. Ian and the other chief executives of the building materials sector believed then, as they do today, that regulators, designers and the consumer will significantly benefit from BPIC’s key objectives: • A level playing field so that all products can be fairly and genuinely compared through performance • A nationally consistent regulatory framework which is critical, especially in maintaining housing affordability throughout Australia • Strengthening Australia’s building material sector through innovation and adherence to Australian Standards and the Building Code of Australia BPIC is working to better protect homeowners, builders, designers and building surveyors from non-compliant, and in many cases unsafe, products being used in Australian construction. Appreciating that knowledge and education are the best possible means to eliminate non-compliant products, BPIC and SAI Global are pursuing, through meetings with the ABCB, Housing Industry Association, Master Builders Association and the Property Council of Australia, the ability to provide Australian Standards and the Building Code on line at the most affordable rate possible. BPIC is optimistic that both state and federal governments will assist in helping reduce the very real and dangerous cost to homeowners of living in buildings that have been constructed with non-compliant materials. Ian Frame would welcome both support and information that could assist in achieving this goal. Email: IanFrame@bpic.asn.au About BPIC The Building Products Innovation Council (BPIC) is the national body representing Australia’s building product associations. BPIC’s membership directly employs more than 200,000 Australians with more than 470,000 employed indirectly. Their collective industries are worth more than $54b annually to the Australian economy. For more information, please go to: www.bpic.asn.au 4 • Australian Building Regulation Bulletin
John V. McCarthy AO, to hold Presidency of CIB On 13 October 2009, in Brussels, Belgium, CRC for Construction Innovation Chair, John V. McCarthy AO, was voted by the international board of the CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) to take over the Presidency of the global group from May 2010 for three years. The vote is expected to be ratified by World Building Congress delegates in May 2010, and will be the first time an Australian has held this prestigious CIB Presidency. As many of you will know, John has a distinguished record of industry leadership in Australia, including as a member of the Built Environment Industry Innovation Council advising the Australian Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and as a former Board member of the Australian Building Codes Board. John is currently Chairing the interim Board for the incoming Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre as the successor for the CRC for Construction Innovation, which he has chaired for the last eight years. John is also an Adjunct Professor at QUT in Brisbane. John’s energy and focus will deliver clear benefits for expansion of the CIB’s international research role and will coincidentally bring the 2013 World Building Congress to Australia … stay tuned! BCA + INDUSTRY iNDUSTRY NEWS for the ultimate protection from termites... Australian-made HomeGuard is an innovative, tried and proven system that blocks, repels and kills termites. It will not corrode, split or delaminate like other physical barriers and is designed to last the life of the building. It’s environmentally friendly, easy and safe to use. Freecall 1800 066 355 or visit www.homeguardptm.com.au HomeGuard and the HomeGuard logo are trademarks of Corporation. Copyright© 2005 FMC Australasia Pty Ltd. Australian Building Regulation Bulletin • 5
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