Minutes of the Northland BRANCH AGM
held on 1st December 2017 at 1.30pm at the Whangarei Library in the May Bain Room 5 Rust Ave Whangarei
Welcome: Branch Chair Dave Currie welcomed members and guests to Northland Branch meeting.
Attendance: (FNDC) Dave Currie, Peter Martin, Nikki Clark, John Edwards, (WDC) Stuart Ferris, Shane Hakaraia, Paul Cook, Paul Van Der Sluis, Kevin Richards, Todd Moreton (Guest) Markus Magueflor (Guest), (KDC) Matt Williams, Jamie Nikora, Kerry Hewson, John Dowden, Steve Spence (Guest)
Apologies: the rest of the Northland branch.
Previous AGM Minutes: Were confirmed as correct Moved: Stuart Ferris, seconded: Jamie Nikora
Matters Arising: Nil
Correspondence In/Out: Everybody getting correspondence.
Chairperson’s Annual Report: Dave Currie congratulated everyone on another year passed and gave thanks to all members, guests and all involved in helping us achieve another year. Dave re-capped points from the year gone, where the Northland branch has been and done this year e.g. site visit to Advance Build, Durapanel Housing, presentations from Daniel Schiebmair Technical and Education Manager of Building Officials Institute of NZ, Rob Tierney BOINZ board member and CEO & Principal Holmes Farsight, Graeme Robertson GIB, Nigel Brown Weather Barrier systems, Ian McCauley KDC BCA Manager, Patrick Gao Hilti Fire Engineer. Another great Conference and celebrating 50 Years of BOINZ this year.
Northland Election of Branch Executive Positions for 2018/2019 TERM:
Jamie Nikora Branch Chairperson
jnikora@kaipara.govt.nz
Peter Martin Branch Secretary
Peter.martin@fndc.govt.nz
Kerry Hewson Branch Official
khewson@kaipara.govt.nz
Carmel Taylor Branch Official
Carmel.Taylor@fndc.govt.nz
The Chair declared the AGM for 2016 closed.
Jamie Nikora
Northland Branch Secretary
jnikora@kaipara.govt.nz
Minutes of the Northland Branch Training and Networking Event
Guests: Nick Hill Chief Executive of BOINZ, Blair Nix and In Ling Ng of Mitek NZ.
Guest Presentation:
Nick Hill Chief Executive of BOINZ, provided an overview on BOINZ’s direction, an update on the Diploma pathway, and the impact of the new Government in respect of the sector.
A lot of time is spent with ministers discussing good practice, advocacy etc., now with new Prime Minister, new set of people all means all discussions must start again.
Jacinda Ardern seemed to have an effect especially on the young voters with an increase of 6-8%, while other brackets saw on average a 1% increase.
Young people want change and mainly around housing. Nick detailed how a big focus will be placed on teaching Building Control at school level.
There is a need for more schools with as most are at capacity. Some interesting stats – roughly 300 new/imported cars to NZ a day with approx. 42% to Auckland.
Net immigration has increased, 14.9 people per thousand. For BOINZ its been an incredibly tough year with peaks and troughs and expenditure at lid level.
Training is most focused area for education e.g. courses to regulation 18. Diplomas to be replaced in 2018. The Cadetship Contract where an applicant can do courses over 2 years which is a big focus for BOINZ.
Looking for 30-50 cadets 1st year and 50-100 for the years after to help stem the gap of BCOs. With the skills shortage BOINZ HR Division use contacts all round the world to try find suitable applicants for a BCA from overseas, Our most recent being Steven Spence from the UK as Team Leader with Kaipara District Council.
The accredited Building Surveyor Program has been going well and is helping to build professional property inspectors for e.g. pre-purchase inspections, they must be accredited, educated, trained and audited, the reports they write must meet a high standard or they will not be accredited, 2 reports to be audited a year to carry on competence.
BOINZ are looking to reduce costs on training e.g. flights, accommodation, etc. by looking at self-learning type courses e.g. 1 day face to face and some at work learning rather than 3 day course, travel, accommodation etc.
Every 10 years since 1948 there has been a trend of something big happening – 1948: Statehouse boom, 1958: rise of the wool industry bringing a lot of building work and remediation, 1968: Crash of wall street, housing drop, 1978: Oil Crisis, 1988: Slump, lost shares, 1998: Asian Crisis, 2008: Global Financial Crisis, 2018………………
Blair Nix & In Ling Ng of Mitek NZ: Discussion on why IL1 designs cannot be used for IL2, Products and Mitek advice.
Mitek offer a range of farm buildings all designed to IL1 mainly under AS/NZS:1170. Lean to buildings, gable buildings, American barn style, and combos of these together.
Clearspan LVL type for very large open spans. IL1 building category means a low level of risk to human life therefore lesser design standards can be adopted e.g. the amount of deflection in any member can now be increased and if was to be IL2 this would not comply.
These sheds range from loadings of high to extra high and AS/NZS:1170 has reduction factors against 3604 wind e.g. high in 3604 is 44m/s, in 1170 its 39m/s this is why PS1s issued detail reduced wind speeds in m/s.
IL1 buildings also do not require mandatory treatment of wood. Rough sawn is much different to gauge. These buildings as above can have significant deflection and can move a lot more therefore not suitable for IL2.
Must come with a PS1 and this cannot say “not for council use” The PS1 covers structure, assumes good ground to 3604. Normally with poles minimum 1m deep. Typically these are braced by the poles if a pole shed but depends on wind zone also, roof is typically tension strap braced.
Mitek have a scope on their IL1 designs of: 12m max rafter span, 15m max truss span, each poles holds 36m2, 6m bay spacing, 6m height.
An applicant can custom all elements to suit. Some of Miteks new developments: new stud strap profile, new “Plate Lock”6kn top plate connector, 9-16kn truss to top plate changing from nails to screws being a lot easier, new “stud lok”to screw top plate to stud removing need for straps and can even go through a top and packer plate.
Mitek left handouts and urge people to use the website, a lot of good detail.
Dates discussed for 2018 meetings as follows:
March 23rd
June 8th
September 7th
December 7th – AGM
