Compliance

Builder collapse insurance claims, defect enforcement, and BTR-specific underwriting all point to the same problem: MMC does not scale on factory output alone. It scales when trust becomes reusable.

Australia’s emerging national voluntary certification pathway for MMC manufacturers matters because it can reduce one of the deepest frictions in Australian MMC: the repeated cost of rebuilding trust on every project.

For residential delivery, stability itself may be infrastructure. The NCC 2025 preview suggests that certainty and continuity can matter more than another round of code churn.

MMC is no longer being discussed only as a product or factory topic. It is entering the language of red-tape reform, approvals, NCC usability, and housing system productivity.

The issue may not be code stringency. It may be code usability.