The Grenfell tower disaster in Britain last year has (quite
rightly) focused attention on fire risk in buildings.
Whilst the fire risk issue may be common throughout the building
and construction industry in Australia, each state individually
takes responsibility for identifying solutions and implementing
appropriate legislation.
As reported by the ABC's Josh Bavis in a post on 17 May
2018, apart from the Queensland government spending millions of
dollars to make government buildings safer, privately owned
buildings (including about 1,200 residential buildings) will now
also need to be assessed.
The primary aim of the new laws, passed as an amendment to the
Building Regulations 2006 and set to come into effect on 1
October 2018, will be to introduce a requirement for privately
owned buildings to undergo rectification works where a fire risk is
identified.
