Legal approval of building innovations in Australia — A key to deliverance from evil for the global village?

Hugh Knox's paper describes accreditation as an essential part of building regulation in Australia. The paper was presented at the CIB Congress in a session entitled ‘Building regulations: a necessary evil’ but a successful experiment carried out in Australia showed that regulations and standards can deliver significant benefits rather than obstruction. Accreditation can be the catalyst that exorcises the ‘evil’.

Keywords:

• accreditation
• building regulations
• management
• Australia
• innovation
• CIB‐92