How Does the Japanese Product Evaluation Work?
The Building Standard Law of Japan has a performance hierarchy which stipulates several compliance paths including a ‘deemed-to-comply’ prescriptive solution, similar to the Deemed-to-Satisfy approach used in the Building Code of Australia (BCA). If building products, materials or systems do not comply with Building Standard Law of Japan provisions, Approval Certification is a mandatory requirement. Building products, materials or systems are consequently evaluated against the performance criteria and approved by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Under Building Standard Law of Japan, this evaluation work can only be undertaken by an Evaluation Body, like the ABCB. The ABCB is recognised as an Evaluation Body for the assessment of products against: • fireproof performance • non-combustiblity performance • material quality performance These classifications are considered to be the most likely types of Australian building products requiring evaluation to be exported to J
