MINUTES
CANTERBURY/WESTLAND BRANCH
TRAINING AND NETWORKING EVENT
Held on
19th June at 4.45pm
At
Selwyn District Council, Function room
2 Norman Kirk Drive, Rolleston
Welcome:
Richard welcomed members and extended a warm welcome to new members Neil Quartly DLM Wallace Pumps, Evan Stuthridge Christchurch City Council and Ana De Jong Christchurch City Council
Attendance & Apologies:
Attendance: Brian Abrahams Christchurch City Council, John Adams Whats Up House Inspections Ltd, Robert Barr Christchurch City Council, Christopher Beckham Christchurch City Council, Lisa Bennett Christchurch City Council, John Blanken Waimakariri District Council, Mike Chilton New Zealand Home Heating Association, Jennifer Clarke Christchurch City Council, Ryan Cooper Christchurch City Council, Robert Copeland Christchurch City Council, Azat Dautov Ashburton District Council, Ana De Jong Christchurch City Council, Dave Donaldson Christchurch City Council, Bill Dray Christchurch City Council, Jeff Enslen Christchurch City Council, Graham Erikson, Mike Farrell Ashburton District Council, John Haddow Selwyn District Council, Tony Judd Selwyn District Council, Jenny Lilley Selwyn District Council, Richard Lorgelly Christchurch City Council, Kelvin Lysaght Ashburton District Council, Nigel Maria The Earthquake Commission, Tania McGrath Christchurch City Council, Brenda McIndoe Waimakariri District Council, Bryan McKay Christchurch City Council, Adam Modica Christchurch City Council, Eddie Newman Christchurch City Council, Peter Newton Selwyn District Council, Jim Nguyen Christchurch City Council, Gary Nicol Christchurch City Council, Bryan Richards IBIS 2000 Ltd, Wayne Roden Christchurch City Council, Terry Sparks Christchurch City Council, Kevin Thompson Christchurch City Council, Peter Van der Zee Christchurch City Council, Bernie Van Haandel Christchurch City Council, Stephen Walders Christchurch City Council, Michael Wong Ashburton District Council, Robert Wright Christchurch City Council, Callum Thornton Christchurch City Council
• Kaikoura were not in attendance but dialled in via Cisco.
• Thank you all for your emails, accepting and apologies are noted on the sign in sheet.
• Richard requested that members RSVP for future events within 48hours for catering purposes and to make sure to sign the attendance sheet on arrival
Previous Minutes:
Minutes of the previous meeting was circulated via the BOINZ website. These were accepted as a true and correct record:
Moved by: John Blanken Seconded by: Adam Modica
Correspondence In/Out:
None
Board Report:
Kerry Walsh: Board liaison for Canterbury/Westland Branch. Richard read the board report on behalf of Kerry who sent his apologies
General Business:
Survey
A survey was circulated to member’s present requesting feedback as to what members would like to get from branch meetings. Jennifer gave a brief finding of the summary and urged feedback from members as to what they would like to see or hear at their meetings. She also urged members to get involved in planning or presenting a meeting as well as participating generally.
Post meeting results of survey
17 responses were received:
7 meetings preferred, with 2 or 3 site visits included. The meetings to be held at different locations and should start between 4.30 and 4.45 and be an hour and a half long. Topics that would like to be discuss included, new products, cladding, wet areas and anything topical. Technical subjects of interest were E2, cladding, code changes, technical discussions, bracing, building code changes, durability evaluations, alternative solutions, acceptable solutions, 124 notices, Act Clauses, and fire penetrations. Most people recorded that one of the most important aspects of the meeting was networking and would like more discussion.
Guest speakers
Jennifer introduced the theme of this meeting which was "Decision making", then introduced the first speaker:
Kevin Thompson, Christchurch City Council - Presented 'A day in the life of a Building Inspector'. An interactive presentation which explored the role of a Building Inspector, how we record our reasons for decisions and how to best handle challenging situations. Members discussed issues that they have experienced on site and during processing. Members then shared them to the audience. There was a lively and engaging discussion.
Jennifer thanked the first speaker and introduced the second speaker:
Andre Winkleman, Christchurch City Council – Who presented a discussion on how we can be 'Satisfied on reasonable ground'. The discussion covered manufactured building solutions, how we can develop a "One Building, One building Consent" concept, and following on from the latest media attention on product failure, which also touched on the topic of product assurance. There was questions and debate amongst the members as to the issues involved in prefabricated units being built in one BCA and Consent being granted in another BCA.
The Powerpoint for Andres presentation is located here
A Special thank you to:
Andre and Kevin for the very lively and informative presentations. Thank you to Selwyn District Council and especially Jenny Lilley for the refreshments and hosting the meeting
Richard Lorgelly closed the meeting at 6.35
The Next Branch Meeting will take place:
On the 7th August at the Waimakariri offices in Rangiora. John Blanken will be hosting this event for us.
The subject will be FIRE SPREAD and there will be a Passive Fire protection presentation by Potters Interior Systems. We will also have a Hot Topic discussion. We will send you more information on this prior to the next meeting.
Jennifer Clarke
Canterbury/Westland Branch Secretary
Jennifer.Clarke@ccc.govt.nz
