NEWS FROM MBIE
MBIE BSP – The Year Ahead
We will be testing potential issues with the current building consent system, and potential desirable outcomes for a new or amended building consent system.
Building Performance at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment are New Zealand’s central building regulator. John Sneyd, General Manager f rom the Building Performance team lets us know what is coming up in 2022.
including supply chain storages, how to improve the quality of medium-density housing and buildings accessibility.
The Building Performance team have an exciting and varied work programme this year. We’re always looking to work closely with the building industry to provide better building outcomes for all New Zealanders, and our relationship with BOINZ is invaluable in this area. We know many BOINZ members are also our co-regulators at building consent authorities, and we sincerely appreciate the work put in by local government to improve building systems in practices.
Improving the consenting system is a key priority for the Government, and although several incremental changes have been made since the Building Act in 2004, this time we’ll be looking at the system as a whole.
Below I discuss what’s on the work programme this year for Building Performance. We are also looking at other emerging areas of work,
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Straight Up | Autumn 2022
Improving the building consenting system
We will be testing potential issues with the current building consent system, and potential desirable outcomes for a new or amended building consent system. A Sector Reference Group has been established, to provide my team with more regular, in-depth guidance from sector stakeholders on the detailed policy work.
