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 Web resources

Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) - provides national standards, codes of practice, guidance notes and joint standards.

BCA + Standards On-line - online access to the Building Code of Australia and all referenced Australian Standards. Select Guest Login for free access to some information and BCA Bulletins.

Building & Construction Industry Royal Commission - the final report is available on line in .PDF format.

Building & Construction Toolbox - an online learning resource.

Buildsoft - develops and markets software for the building & construction industry.

CSIRO Manufacturing & Materials Technology - provides an extensive range of online brochures.

CSR Group - is one of the world’s largest building materials suppliers.

Engineers Media Online - publishes engineering magazines (both print and electronic), technical journals and books.

Galvanisers Association of Australia (GAA) - provides free technical publications and practical assistance on all aspects of design, application, process, bolting, welding and painting of galvanized steel.

NATSPEC - a comprehensive national building specification system endorsed by government and professional bodies.

Standards Australia - Australia’s peak standards body.

Spatial Sciences - Virtual Online Learning (VOL) modules from the Curtain University of Technology are available on CD - see details on the About VOL page.

TAFE Studylinks: Building & Construction - access additional websites.

Timber.net.au  - provides information for users, specifiers, educators & students.

Waste Minimisation Guidelines - a series of free guidelines (in Acrobat PDF format) for people who work in the building industry. 

Your Home Technical Manual - a guide to environmentally sustainable homes.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 14 January, 2008

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