Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Link or access to Australian Standards for building etc 2Apr 08, 2010 9:15 am Some people don't have time to do the job right the first time, but seem to have plenty of time to fix their mistakes. Build Thread Re: Link or access to Australian Standards for building etc 4Apr 10, 2010 10:38 am View our blog at: http://room4acubby.blogspot.com/ Re: Link or access to Australian Standards for building etc 13Apr 11, 2010 7:52 am Lex Oh yeah, they are definitely "copyright". They lawyer I was referring to, who said we could copy or use any part of a standard was a commercial lawyer specialising in patents and trademarks. He was reviewing our terms of trade at the time. Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Link or access to Australian Standards for building etc 14Apr 11, 2010 8:24 am zeke One interesting aspect (that I don't know the answer to) just occurred to me while typing this reply:- Ignorance of the law is no excuse - we all know that. Therefore, legislation is in the public domain and generally readily available to read, copy etc. But some legislation calls up Australian Standards so that the standard forms part of the legislation. But you have to pay to buy a copy of the standard. There seems to me to be a fundamental paradox here. Zeke, That is a very good point and one that I have not thought about. Most of the codes that I deal with are not legislated requirements and are more guides, however the codes referred to in the BCA are mandatory. This is an extremely good argument for having them freely available. You may even be swaying me on making the other codes available, if only to eliminate the profit insentives of those who publish them and put them back in the public domain. Unfortunately this is a worldwide phenomenon. In the UK some of the Health and Safety Standards are freely available however British Standards are not freely available. Ed, I would not want to be the one to test copyright laws by reproducing full copies of Australian Standards, the method that SAI global use to limit the use of electronic versions of their pdf files can easily be fixed View our blog at: http://room4acubby.blogspot.com/ For reference, this is the Austlii reference. My take on this is, that they would be breaking the law denying access to a homeowner in Victoria, or their agent from having… 1 9298 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 7111 I believe this is correct. From the picture you can see the power was put in last so the electrician knew where the water was. Really it's a common sense issue more… 4 5195 |