Government announces use of AI technologies to cut down National Construction Code paperwork

ABC NEWS (Australia)

As part of the plan to fast-track housing approvals the government announced a "strike team" to speed up the process, and will also employ AI to help tradies, homeowners and small businesses cut down the paperwork on the National Construction Code. The managing director of the Housing Industry Association, Jocelyn Martin, says there are already products that use AI to navigate the code.

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00:00As part of this plan the government's announced today, it's also bringing in a strike team

00:06to speed up development approvals. It'll also employ artificial intelligence to help tradies,

00:13homeowners and small businesses cut down the paperwork on the National Construction Code.

00:18The Managing Director of the Housing Industry Association, Jocelyn Martin, says are already

00:23products that use AI to navigate the code? To be able to give that kind of innovation

00:31a boost is something that will really help. It helps the builder navigate the complexity of it.

00:37It provides, it's got the opportunity to kind of pull different sections of the code together so

00:42that they can get a complete answer and it's got the opportunity to kind of add additional

00:47information, maybe like videos or those kinds of helpful pieces of advice to it too. So I think

00:54it's got enormous potential to make things easier and allow builders to get back out on site and out

01:00of the office.

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