<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?Xpress productLine="abcb-glossentry" ?><abcb-glossentry xmlns:xt="urn:xpressauthor:trackchanges" id="_5b1a07fa-ec9d-48a4-ad73-77cd5f362d25" outputclass="abcb-glossentry"><glossterm id="_14334ede-297f-4b2a-8b67-6f12002692c7">Primary building element</glossterm><glossdef outputclass="glossdef"><p>For the purposes of—</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_4453b357-92c9-411d-9308-9ca6f1e42b60">Volume One, a member of a building designed specifically to take part of the loads specified in <xref format="dita" href="qpp://assets/1137#_a2a51c5c-1f14-46e7-a85f-4ddab6440278" id="_5011761d-6523-4f76-8193-52654c106686" publishing-id="vol1" scope="external" type="clause">B1D3</xref> and includes roof, ceiling, floor, stairway or ramp and wall framing members including bracing members designed for the specific purpose of acting as a brace to those members; or</li><li id="_37d75535-2ed8-42e7-9369-962b2081227a"><xref format="dita" href="qpp://assets/4179#_4ab1b514-28a7-4799-a8fe-75d9fcbc3f19" id="_25a5c729-07a8-4952-a349-606b59d6447c" publishing-id="housing" referredAs="_1ed70798-6f01-4c63-83f9-665a4fcbb22d" scope="external" type="part">Part 3.4</xref> of the ABCB Housing Provisions, a member of a building designed specifically to take part of the building loads and includes roof, ceiling, floor, stairway or ramp and wall framing members including bracing members designed for the specific purpose of acting as a brace to those members.</li></ol><callout id="_38e4485f-86f3-4a73-ac90-e24aebc9936e"><callout-type ncc-info-type="info"/><p>The loads to which a building may be subjected are dead, live, wind, snow and earthquake loads. Further information on building loads can be found in the AS 1170 series of Standards.</p></callout></glossdef><glossdef outputclass="glossdef-variation" variation="QLD" variation-type="REPLACE"><title id="_020b0756-a624-4283-81a0-4f29c2411ff9">QLD REPLACE Definition</title><p>For the purposes of—</p><ol outputclass="numbered"><li id="_51b36704-3faa-4a09-b00b-fc2e12fbc9e4">Volume One, a member of a building designed specifically to take part of the loads specified in <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1137_1.49.0.xml#_a2a51c5c-1f14-46e7-a85f-4ddab6440278" id="_2424c134-7e81-41e3-9040-6b998c141701" referencetype="Text" scope="local" synctargettext="false" type="ncc-clause">B1D3</xref> and includes roof, ceiling, floor, stairway or ramp and wall framing members including bracing members designed for the specific purpose of acting as a brace to those members; or</li><li id="_909f0ab2-4230-4d84-848e-a3b77c76cf5e">Volume Two—<ol><li>A member of a building specifically designed to take part of the building loads and includes roof, ceiling, floor, stairway or ramp and wall framing members including bracing members designed for the specific purpose of acting as a brace to those members; and</li><li>door jambs, window frames and reveals, architraves and skirtings.</li></ol></li></ol><callout id="_80979283-f0c0-4351-8dbc-b81151d6357f"><callout-type ncc-info-type="info"/><p>The loads to which a building may be subjected are dead, live, wind, snow and earthquake loads. Further information on building loads can be found in the AS 1170 series of Standards.</p></callout></glossdef></abcb-glossentry>