Australia does not have one place that tells a builder, an owner or a project manager what the rules actually are. The answers are spread across the National Construction Code, the Australian Standards, eight states and territories with their own Acts and regulators, the awards, the insurance schemes and a stack of case law. They shift every year. So people lose hours chasing the right answer, and sometimes act on one that expired two amendments ago.
We are building the place that fixes that. TradeForm Knowledge is a working record of the rules, standards and obligations that govern building and construction in Australia, collected in one spot and kept current. Every entry shows its jurisdiction, links to its primary sources, names the expert who signed it off and carries the date it was last checked. When a source changes, the entries that depend on it are flagged and reviewed again. You should never have to wonder whether what you are reading still holds.
This base is the foundation under everything we make. It feeds the TradeForm products and it grounds the tools we are building to help the people doing the work: the builder on site, the owner managing a build, the project manager holding a program together. Good tools need good knowledge underneath them. That is why we put the effort into the knowledge first, verified going in, so the answers coming out can be trusted.
We are not here to replace anyone's judgement. We are here to give the industry a straight, sourced, current answer in less time than it takes to find the wrong one. The base grows every week. We add named reviewers who have the standing to speak on their field, and we widen what we cover across trades, states and the business of running a building company.
Found something that is off, or know a part of this industry better than most? Tell the reviewer named on the entry, or get in touch. We would rather get this right than get it fast.