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Building sustainable and comfortable places to live and work
The NSW Government is showing a strong commitment to the development of sustainable and resilient homes and buildings. A new State Environmental Planning Policy (Sustainable Buildings) 2022 looks to...
Considerations surrounding EV charging bays
The adoption of EV vehicles throughout Australia is gradually increasing. However, the current provisions under the NCC (National Construction Code) have not yet caught up to the risks associated...
NSW planning portal upgrade
Two years ago, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Planning Portal) Regulation 2020 commenced, introducing some important changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment...
The next reform wave is coming
In our last article we mentioned the fact that some major legislative changes are out for consultation with potential for adoption in early 2023. As promised, we will review the proposals and...
Reforming building laws – your opinion matters
The NSW Government is seeking to increase stakeholder confidence in the building industry. They are creating a new foundation for construction by looking at how to improve laws, better protect...
Creating value in changing spaces
How MBC Group adds value for our clients in what was once ‘the humble fitout’, which has become a substantial sub-set of the overall construction market and forms an important workflow for our...
Ensuring a better built environment for all
We want to discuss how our business purpose, ‘ensuring a better built environment’, intrinsically links MBC Group to the process of design and construction, putting building compliance at the...
Ready for an extraordinary change within NCC 2022?
From September 1st this year any new material, product or component of a building that is required to be the subject of a fire test, will have to be subject to the latest version of that fire test...
MBC Group heads north into regional NSW
Despite suffering like a lot of other Australian businesses through the pandemic, we took a strong decision to continue investing in our future, and late last year we opened our new office in sunny...
How technology is changing architecture
What will the future of architecture look like? The industry has been subject to some big changes particularly over the last decade, paving the way for new ways of conceiving, designing and...
The challenge of certifying public places
Public buildings and adjourning spaces – with a greater thoroughfare of people – present particular challenges to building certification. While the BCA is the minimum standard for buildings to...
Livable cities blueprint in a post-Covid world
The Covid pandemic has illustrated how people bring cities to life through their removal. Without people bustling through the main streets of Sydney, Melbourne and other cities in lockdown, these...
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