CANTERBURY/WESTLAND BRANCH
TRAINING AND NETWORKING EVENT
held on
Tuesday, 6th August at 4.45pm
at
Welcome:
Jennifer Clarke welcomed members, visitors, BOINZ President Kerry Walsh, and extended a special welcome and thank you to Frank and his sons for hosting the meeting at their factory.
Attendance & Apologies:
Christchurch City Council: Brian Abrahams, Ricardo Anderson, Ryan Cooper, Terry Sparks, Peter Van der Zee, Bernie Van Haandel, Heath Wells, Yo An Lin, Bryan McKay, Adam Modica, Jim Nguyen, Noemi Ponferrada, Sandi Rhynd, Katharine Riley, Wayne Roden, Ana De Jong, Jason Dean, Leslie Frost
What's Up House Inspections: John Adams
Hurunui District Council: Liz Ashwin, Robbie Brennen, Kerry Walsh, Mark Milnes, Kevin Roberts, Steven Knudsen
Waimakarir District Council: John Blanken, Sarah Smith, Brenda McIndoe, Mike Rowe
Simplexity Construction Ltd: Ian Burford
DSC Group: Mathew Constable
Selwyn District Council: Jenny Lilley
QIS Management: George Liu
Ashburton District Council: Kelvin Lysaght, Mike Farrell
New Zealand Building Training and Compliance: Tania McGrath
IBIS 2000 Ltd: Bryan Richards
AA House and Property Checks Ltd: Graeme Dubar
BCA Assist: Bill Ellis
Advance Property Inspections: Grant Hayward
CW Design and Consulting: Christopher Hopgood
Building Works Ltd: Kelvin Kelso
Apologies:
Westland District Council: Warren Godfrey
Erikson Technical Services Ltd: Graham Erikson
Retired Member: Leo O'Loughlin
Christchurch City Council: Richard Lorgelly, Stephen Walders, Christian van den Bosch
Aspinall Property Investigations and Inspection Services: Max Aspinall
Previous Minutes:
Minutes of the previous meeting was circulated via the BOINZ website and are confirmed as being a true and correct record.
Moved: Terry Sparks Seconded: John Blanken.
Correspondence In/Out:
None
Board Report:
Kerry Walsh presented the board report. Please find a copy here
General Business:
- The calendar dates for the meetings for 2019 are set and are now on the BOINZ website.
- Jennifer thanked all members for emailing RSVP's and reminded members of the importance of sending your RSVP for future events and catering purposes. Members are also reminded to sign the attendance sheet on arrival.
- Members are also reminded that the annual weekend meeting will be hosted by Simon Percy and his team at HDC on the 21st September, the agenda has now been circulated, if you are going to attend please RSVP as soon as possible so we can finalise arrangements.
Guest speakers
Ryan Cooper- Senior Building Inspector, Christchurch City Council
Ryan talked briefly about how we assess products during the building consent processing stage and regarding compliance for structural steel. He talked about how the Engineering Services team at Christchurch City Council will decide if it is appropriate for the agents structural engineer to oversee the verification and fabrication of structural steel so that construction monitoring includes not only on site building work but also building work that is done off site.
This was a brief introduction to an important topic, and Jennifer suggested the possibility of revisiting this subject in more detail in a subsequent meeting in 2020.
Frank Van Schaijik - Managing Director, John Jones Steel
Frank gave a history of the family's factory and how it has developed over the years in Christchurch. He detailed where the steel was sourced and explained some of their quality control procedures.
Members were spilt into three different groups and were shown around the steel fabrication factory. We were shown how the steel is received, cut, welded and assembled.
Special thank you to: Frank and his sons for hosting us and providing us with an amazing spread of food.
Next Branch Meeting: 21 September 2019
Jennifer Clarke closed the meeting @ 6.45
Jennifer Clarke
CANTERBURY/WESTLAND Branch Secretary
