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  Rights and obligations in the building process

  If you are involved in a building project, it’s important you know who is responsible for each aspect.

  • Consumer protection
  • Homeowner rights and obligations
  • Builder and designer rights and obligations
  • Building owner rights and obligations
  • How the building system protects you
  • Roles and responsibilities of councils

  Stages of the building process

  Understand project stages, from scoping and design to consents, construction and completion.

  • DIY, but build it right
  • Renovations differ to new builds
  • Understand your land so you design well
  • Top tips for a successful build
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  Priority work programmes

  An overview of the priority work programmes within the MBIE Building System Performance branch.

  • Seismic Work Programme
  • Building consent system reform
  • Maintaining the Building Code
  • Improving occupational licensing to help homeowners
  • Climate Change Work Programme

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• Projects & consents
  • Planning a successful build
  • Sign-off and maintenance
  • Why contracts are valuable
  • Apply for building consent
  • Build to the consent
  • Health and safety on site

  Understanding the building consent process

  For safe, healthy and durable buildings, all building work in New Zealand must meet certain standards. Find out how to build within the rules.

  Health and safety on site

  Avoid accidents and make site safety a priority.

  1. Planning a successful build

  • Check if you need consents
  • Natural hazard sections of the Building Act
  • Choosing the right people for your type of building work
  • Why contracts are valuable

  2. Getting a consent

  • Apply for building consent
  • How to support your building consent application
  • Understanding the building consent process

  3. Building to the consent

  • Making changes to your plans
  • Typical council inspections of a building project
  • Completing your project

  4. Sign-off and maintenance

  • Get the build signed off
  • How to identify defects
  • Protecting your investment

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  • A General provisions
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  • D Access
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  • G Services and facilities
  • H Energy efficiency
  • Specific buildings
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  • Product assurance and certification schemes
  • Warnings and bans on building products
  • How the Building Code works
  • Geotechnical education
  • Building Performance Learning Centre
  • Introduction to medium-density housing
  • Maintaining the Building Code

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  • How the Building Code works
  • Maintaining the Building Code
  • Different ways to comply with the Building Code
  • Specific buildings
  • Product assurance and certification schemes
  • Introduction to medium-density housing
  • Building Performance Learning Centre

  Find Acceptable Solutions, Verification Methods, updates and technical guidance by Building Code clause.

  • a General provisions
  • b Stability
  • c Protection from fire
  • d Access
  • e Moisture
  • f Safety of users
  • g Services and facilities
  • h Energy efficiency

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• Managing buildings
  • Managing your BWoF
  • General information on building safety in earthquakes
  • Securing unreinforced masonry building parapets and facades
  • Managing earthquake-prone buildings
  • Managing buildings in an emergency
  • Change of use and alterations
  • Dam safety requirements
  • Building failure investigations
  • Operation Magazine - Report into boarding house fire safety and landlord compliance

  About managing buildings

  • Dam safety requirements
  • Managing your BWoF (for buildings with specified systems)
  • General information on building safety in earthquakes
  • Managing earthquake-prone buildings
  • Securing unreinforced masonry building parapets and facades
  • Change of use, alterations and extension of life
  • Managing buildings in an emergency

  Specified systems and compliance schedules

  If you own a building that contains a specified system such as a cable car, you must ensure they are effectively operated for the life of the building and in keeping with the council-issued compliance schedule.

  • Inspection and maintenance of specified systems
  • Fines and penalties for offences relating to compliance schedules
  • Compliance schedules

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• Resolving problems
  • Resolution options
  • Building consent and sign-off
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  • Designs
  • Councils
  • Clients

  Resolving problems

  • Resolution options
  • Building consent and sign-off
  • Contracts
  • Builds
  • Designs
  • Councils
  • Clients

  Determinations

  A determination is a binding decision made by MBIE providing a way of solving disputes or questions about the rules that apply to buildings, how buildings are used, building accessibility, and health and safety.

  • Understanding determinations
  • Applying for a determination
  • Steps in the determination process
  • Previous determinations

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  • Signs of a leaky home

  See everything in 'Resolving problems'

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This information is published by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Chief Executive. It is a general guide only and, if used, does not relieve any person of the obligation to consider any matter to which the information relates according to the circumstances of the particular case. Expert advice may be required in specific circumstances. Where this information relates to assisting people:

• with compliance with the Building Act, it is published under section 175 of the Building Act
• with a Weathertight Services claim, it is published under section 12 of the Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2006.

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