What Defines a habitable space?
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What Defines a habitable space?
HABITABLE SPACE is space in a building for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, toilets, hallways, storage areas, closets, or utility rooms and similar areas are not considered habitable spaces.
What is a non habitable building?
Note: A non-habitable room is a bathroom, laundry, water closet, pantry, walk-in wardrobe, corridor, hallway, lobby, photographic darkroom, clothes-drying room, and other spaces of a specialised nature occupied neither frequently nor for extended periods.
What is the minimum ceiling height for a habitable room?
2.4m.
What is a Class 8 building?
Class 8 buildings It is a building in which a process (or handicraft) is carried out for trade, sale, or gain. The building can be used for production, assembling, altering, repairing, finishing, packing, or cleaning of goods or produce. It includes buildings such as a mechanic’s workshop.
Why would a building practitioner want to include a performance solution in a building design?
A Performance Solution is unique. They also often allow flexibility in achieving design and compliance outcomes and encourage innovative design and use of technology.
What determines low rise construction?
Low rise is described as falling within the BCA classes: Class 1 and 10. Classes 2 to 9 with a gross floor area not exceeding 2000 square metres, not including Type A or Type B construction.
Why would you want to include an alternative solution in a building design?
Some points about alternative solutions: They can be a minor variation from an Acceptable Solution or Verification Method, or a radically different design and construction approach. A building owner may want something that looks different or performs better, is more cost effective, or overcomes a specific site problem.
What are two methods that may be used to assess a performance solution?
Verification Methods include: Calculations – using analytical methods or mathematical models; and/or. Tests – using a technical operation either on-site or in a laboratory to directly measure one or more performance criteria of a given solution.
What is a performance requirement?
Performance requirements typically comprise a set of criteria which stipulate how things should perform or the standards that they must achieve in a specific set of circumstances. This is as opposed to prescriptive specifications which set out in precise detail how something should be done.
What are performance solutions?
A Performance Solution is a compliance solution for Performance Requirements within the BCA and the Access to Premises Standards. It was previously known as an Alternative Solution, and is one way of achieving compliance with the NCC.
