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ATTACHMENT 1
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
BUILDING ACT 1972
EXEMPTION
NO 108 of 1991
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
This Instrument exempts ACT PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES, being a government agency, from the application of the provision of the Building code specified in the Schedule in respect of the building works as part of the ACT Public Hospitals Redevelopment, Building 1, Woden Valley Hospital.
The hospital is being redeveloped and this involves the construction of significant new facilities together with substantial internal refurbishment and renovation work to the existing hospital buildings. The principal buildings affected by the upgrading process are Buildings 1, 2 and 3.
It is a requirement of the ACT Building Act that all work undertaken at Woden Valley Hospital shall be in accordance with the Building Code of Australia.
A number of surveys and investigations and interim refurbishment work undertaken in Building 1 have shown that there are deficiencies in the existing building built in the early 1970s with respect to compliance with this Code. Complete compliance with the Code in all respects is not feasible or considered appropriate for the building to perform to accepted levels of safety.
To determine what exemptions would be appropriate while still achieving the required level of the amenity and fire safety, Philip Chun and Associates were engaged as consultants to examine the existing Building 1. This Consultant reported in a report titled ACT Public Hospital Redevelopment Project Royal
. Canberra Hospital (South) Building 1. The findings of this
study have been examined in detail by Public Works and
Services, the Fire Brigade and the ACT Building Controller.
This process has resulted in a recommendation that twenty-three modifications be made to the requirements of the Building Code of Australia which together require the Schedule of Exemptions set out in the Instrument.
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