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This document has been prepared by icare HBCF: Insurance and Care NSW (icare) provides services in the administration of the Home Building Compensation Fund for the NSW Self Insurance Corporation.

The material in this document is to provide guidance to icare distributors, builders, and builder advisors as a key reference source for applying for and maintaining eligibility under the Home Building Compensation Fund (HBCF).

Policy of insurance.

Explains how the assessment for domestic builiding insurance is determined.

Nominate a Domestic Building Insurance (DBI) distributor using this form.

Sustainable building design should consider durability, affordability, resource conservation, intra and intergenerational social equity aspects, and stakeholder’s perspective throughout its service life; this research has applied life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework to estimate the sustainability performance in terms of a single score, and to identify avenues for sustainability improvement strategies of buildings.

NATSPEC worksections cover a wide range of chillers including those with centrifugal, screw or scroll compressors, air or water cooling and heat recovery. Absorption chillers are also included; the chiller worksections also include options for specifying requirements such as IPLV and NPLV; this TECHnote aims to help specifiers to complete the included schedules.

Discusses options for specifying particulate air filters for air conditioning and ventilation.

NATSPEC produces a range of specification worksection templates which include technical and quality requirements for most building types.

Develop simple and flexible guiding principles that work within the context of the practice.