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		<title>Do building surveyors make the best fire safety engineers?</title>
		<link>http://www.fs.net.au/wordpress/2010/04/18/do-building-surveyors-make-the-best-fire-safety-engineers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Building Surveying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can building surveyors prepare alternative solutions? If you are using a Consulting Building Surveyor in Victoria, Australia to prepare alternative solutions for the fire performance requirements you need to read two articles and decide for yourself if this complies with the legislation. If you are a Relevant Building Surveyor and relying on a Consulting Building Surveyor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention all Architects Alterations don&#8217;t need a building permit &#8230;?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What &#8230; you&#8217;re saying? What? That goes against everything I know about the building codes and the regulations! Yes, you&#8217;re right, this is subject to some limitations. But how about the potential benefit!
It&#8217;s definitely not as eye catching in a headline to say &#8220;Alterations don&#8217;t need a building permit provided you satisfy the criteria for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s the top 5 exemptions for needing a building permit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often get asked (in Victoria, Australia) do I need a building permit for that? Here&#8217;s the top 5 exemptions from the requirement to get a building permit:

 It&#8217;s not building works &#8211; if it&#8217;s civil works e.g. roads, bridges, silos and the like;
Repair, renewal or maintenance &#8211; if it does not affect the structural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there still a $5000 limit for building permits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I got a dollar for every time someone mentioned this old chestnut .. I would have &#8230; well, maybe $100. In Victoria, Australia this provision was deleted from the building code in June 2006.
This was a relatively unsuccessful experiment in government policy. In the Building Regulations 2006 the policy was to create a schedule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the building codes and standards don&#8217;t change much</title>
		<link>http://www.fs.net.au/wordpress/2010/04/09/why-the-building-codes-and-standards-dont-change-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more notable things about the building codes in Australia (the BCA) is that the Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions, as the way that most of us assess compliance with the mandatory performance provisions, don&#8217;t change much. Have a look at the 1996 code and the 2009 code. Maybe it&#8217;s a resourcing issue for the publishers?
As [...]]]></description>
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