Minutes of the Auckland BRANCH TRAINING AND NETWORKING EVENT
held on Wednesday 22 November 2017 at 6.00pm at Alexandra Park Auckland
Welcome: Branch Chair Tineke de Villiers, opened the meeting, welcoming members, new members, and guests as well as extending a special welcome to the event’s sponsor –
Roofing Industries - David Eccles-Hall – Architectural Manager
Attendance: 67 members recorded their attendance
Apologies: Peter Amie, Paul Vernon, Hong Tao Meng, Jane Wu, Philip Sims,
Moved: Nick Riedel Seconded: Steven Peng
Minutes and Matters Arising: Meeting minutes were read and accurate.
Please note the minutes are monthly meeting notice email from BOINZ attached to following agenda.
No longer being sent out separately
Moved: Peter Laurenson Seconded: Quentin Dagger
Correspondence In/Out:
• A reminder to members sent out via email of the new training correspondence provided by the BOINZ training school and collection of CPD points.
• Education / training calendar also sent via email from “Membership”
General Business:
• Some Auckland Council BOINZ members received accounts regards their membership fee due 1st December and wanted to know how members of Auckland Council are reimbursed. The chair indicated that they would have to take up the matter with BOINZ head office and their employer.
• Craig Tibbits - Façade report should include the joinery and contain overall envelope system
• Christine Watkinson thanked everyone for her time with BOINZ Auckland Branch, and that she is moving to Whakatane where she will continue to serve the building industry as a Quality Assurance Manager with Whakatane District Council
• Glynn Robertson eluded to product substitution on site, if inspector’s onsite are seeing product substitutions, please be vigilant and raise questions.
• Ian Charles Murray alluded to Minor dwellings – noise sealant vs fire sealant – important to check GIB manual for substitution on Noiseline construction and Fyreline construction.
• Tineke de Villiers acknowledged the outgoing committee, thanking Christine Watkinson for putting up her hand and coming to the party as co-secretary. Also thanked Grant Brown for being a treasure to the Auckland branch and for his unwavering support for the past few years.
• Grant Brown extended his wishes to the new committee and suggested bringing back the integrated meetings with interactive presentations. It had been a pleasure however he and Tineke would remain in the background supporting the new crew going forward.
• The February session will be asbestos speakers in conjunction with Health and Safety Act, on refurbishment, demolition and management of asbestos.
Guest Presentation: ROOFING INDUSTRIES
David Eccles-Hall Architectural Manager
Keynotes:
- Roofing Industries is primarily a roll former. Buy coiled and pushes it through machines into desired cross-sections
- Manufactures – fascia, gutters and downpipes, also flashings
- Profiles – slimline, slimclad, corrugate, trimrib, ribline, RT7 etc
- There are 13 branches (manufacturing plants) throughout NZ
- Recognised company in NZ and by the building industry.
- Logistics – privately owned trucking fleets (35) on the road.
- Regularly conducts ADNZ, NZIA, BOINZ road shows
- Collaborating with warm roof specifier Rooflogic (http://www.rooflogic.co.nz/) in developing warm roof designs
- Questions from the members:
o Watershed flashings detailing
o 1S cladding flammability
o 1.6mm or greater aluminium welded (cricket flashing) detailing
o Parapet fixing detailing
o Complaints – timber dries out, buckles the flashing. Unsightly but still watertight unless it’s torn or cracked.
o Ventperf – prevent birds, vermin entering roof space, incorporating ventilation to ventilate underside of roof. – Code of practice section 4 Ref.
o Which way to run roofing underlays under 10degrees?
- Paperbased – horizontally
- Synthetic – both ways with supporting netting under
- Powder coated netting under aluminium roof in corrosion zone D
o Under 25degrees roof, should have stop ends.
o Check out www.roof.co.nz for architectural specification and compliance technical summary.
o RANZ (Roofing Association of NZ) has published “RANZ Good Practice ‘on-the-job’ training guide specific to metal roof flashing. Available to purchase from http://www.roofingassn.org.nz/pages/dvd
o System specifications can be found in all major specification systems - Masterspec, Smartspec & Productspec.
Q: Alastair Couper – I’ve seen much more detailed product specification through Smartspec, designers don’t often edit out the Masterspec properly.
A – All specification aid programmes require project specific editing, the technical information provided to these companies are consistent, it falls down to the designer to ensure project-specific information is presented.
Q: Craig Tibbits – roofing penetrations – penetration through roofing paper should be taped? Doesn’t happen on site
A – They should be taped.
Q: Craig Tibbits – product warranties?
A – Our warranties come from our coil suppliers and roofing industry.
Q: Craig Tibbits – would you warranty a roof with other venting systems?
A – Yes.
Q: Alastair Couper– why can’t you couple the training with CPD points and make it mandatory to all registered roofers to sit the courses?
A – Yes, that’s in the plan and we’re trying to “talk them through it”
The Chairperson thanked the presenters from Roofing Industries for providing the members with an insightful presentation and urged every member to continue to come to these meetings.
Quentin Dagger acknowledged and thanked Tineke de Villiers for her long service to the Auckland Branch.
The Chairperson closed the meeting @ 7.30pm.
End of Meeting
Networking and Refreshments
**Refreshments kindly provided by Roofing Industries**
BOINZ, Co-Secretary
Steven Peng
