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 Web resources

About: Woodworking - provides an extensive range of information and resources.

Australian Building Codes Board: Documents (ABCB) - provides an extensive range of documents for download as well as a wide range of industry links.

Australian Greenhouse Office: Buildings - information and resources for housing and commercial buildings.

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

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

Building & Construction Toolbox - an online learning resource.

Building Skills Toolbox - an online learning resource developed to support delivery of parts of the General Construction Training Package.

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

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

CSIRO Publishing - provides information leaflets that provide solutions to a range of common problems faced in the building industry and by owner-builders.

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.

Glass Australia - download the magazine of the Australian Glass & Glazing Association (AGGA) - click on the image on the home page.

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

Pilkington Australia - provides information on glass manufacturing.

SAI Global: Building - access the latest Standards Australia publications (for sale).

Sustainable Construction - information & resources from the Department of Environment & Water Resources for the building & construction industry.

TAFE Studylinks: Building & Construction - access additional websites for building, furniture, glass & glazing, woodworking, etc.

Timber.net.au  - provides information for all users, specifiers, educators and students of timber.

WoodWeb - access an extensive range of information and resources.

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.

For this program area the following forum may be of interest:

• WoodWeb forums - select from a range of topics (in the 3rd column)

 Teaching resources

• General Construction Knowledge - new text book is now available
   • This brochure contains information on the text and an order form
   • This is an Acrobat Reader (PDF) file - if you need to download and
      install this software it is available from the Adobe website.

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: 08 May, 2007

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