NZCB advocacy

Providing a voice to represent New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB) is a collective effort. The NZCB Board, Members, Chief Executive and Management sit on several national boards and industry groups and attend various industry functions. Below you will find some of their recent advocacy work.

MBIE’s Building Advisory Panel

The second meeting of the 2023 – 2026 Building Advisory Panel (BAP) is scheduled for Monday 24 July. This date falls outside of the InHouse publication sequence, though the benefit of having NZCB’s Chief Executive (CE) on the BAP was demonstrated between meetings. The CE reached out to a senior Kāinga Ora manager (and BAP member) to investigate whether a comment made to an NZCB Territory Manager that Kāinga Ora had a

Critical Materials Taskforce

The successor to the 2022 Plasterboard Taskforce has a more wide-ranging mandate to get in front of any product supply issues. The Upper North Island weather events of early 2023 stimulated regular meetings of this group as the impact of the flooding and Cyclone Gabrielle was being assessed. As supplychain constraints have reduced, the regularity of the group’s meeting cycle has likewise lessened.

NZCB representative: Chief Executive

Malcolm Fleming

Waihanga Ara Rau’s Onsite Construction SRG

The second meeting of the Onsite Strategic Reference Group (SRG) was held online on Thursday 4 May. The agenda: to confirm relevant industry representatives had been identified, enabling the SRG to effectively provide strategic and directional advice on the long-term skills and needs of the construction industry to Waihanga Ara Rau. The SRG confirmed its terms of reference and identified areas for future focus and development,

H1 Oversight Group

With the first tranche of H1 changes now implemented, the lifecycle of this small group has effectively come to an end. The central legacy of the group’s work has been the creation of the BRANZ hosted H1 Hub and industry’s contributions to the H1 educational material that populated that digital platform. NZCB was a contributor to that content creation procurement policy that excluded NZCB members from bidding for their projects, was true. Due to the BAP connection, NZCB was quickly able to confirm that Kāinga Ora has no such policy, thus demonstrating the value of developing high-level industry networks through forums such as BAP.

NZCB representative: Chief Executive

Malcolm Fleming

NZS 3604 (Timber-framed buildings) Standards Development Committee

The P3604 Committee met in Christchurch on 25 May. This meeting was to discuss feedback on better usability of the NZS 3604.

NZCB representative: NZCB Board Member Director

Ian Chamberlain being conscious of not duplicating work already underway by other industry groups and bodies. NZCB will continue to have representation on the SRG. The third meeting is scheduled for Thursday 20 July in Wellington.

NZCB representative: Industry Pathways and Apprenticeship Manager Nick Matthews through invited workshop attendance with BRANZ and MBIE in Wellington last October.

NZCB representative: Chief Executive Malcolm Fleming