MINUTES
CANTERBURY/WESTLAND BRANCH
TRAINING AND NETWORKING EVENT
held on
Tuesday, 11th June at 4.45pm
at
Attendance:
Christchurch City Council: Brian Abrahams, Ricardo Anderson, Lisa Bennett, Jennifer Clarke, Ryan Cooper, Yo An Lin, Richard Lorgelly, Bryan McKay, Adam Modica, Eddie Newman, Jim Nguyen, Tracy Quinton-Boundy, Sandi Rhynd, Wayne Roden, Terry Sparks, Kevin Thompson, Peter Van der Zee, Bernie Van Haandel, Stephen Walders, Heath Wells, Jason Dean, Neil Donnellan, Bill Dray, Jeff Enslen, Leslie Frost, David Hutt, Graham Erikson
DSC Group Ltd: Mathew Constable
Hurunui District Council: John Arthur, Liz Ashwin, Mark Milnes, Kevin Roberts, Kerry Walsh, Steven Laird
IBIS 2000 Ltd: Bryan Richards
Laminex New Zealand: Paul Clark
New Zealand Building Training and Compliance: Tania McGrath, Elizabeth Reeves
New Zealand Home Heating Association: Mike Chilton
Waimakariri District Council: John Blanken, Brenda McIndoe, Mike Rowe, Sarah Smith, Lachlan Thompson
What's Up House Inspections Ltd Canterbury: John Adams
Apologies
AA House and Property Check Ltd: Graeme Dubar
Christchurch City Council: Robert Copeland, Noemi Ponferrada, Katharine Riley, Christian van den Bosch, Ana de Jong
Entity Limited: Nicholas Miall
Retired Member: Leo O'Loughlin
Selwyn District Council: Jenny Lilley
Solutions Team: Russell Officer
Welcome:
Branch Chair Richard Lorgelly opened the meeting, welcoming members, new members, NZHHA President Mike Chilton, BOINZ President Kerry Walsh, and extended and special welcome to the Institute's Chief Executive Nick Hill.
Attendance and Apologies:
Richard thanked members for all their emails either accepting or sending in their apologies. He also requested members to please RSVP within 48-hour timeframe for catering purposes. Catering is expensive and the Branch doesn't want to over cater or under cater. Please make sure that you sign the attendance sheet upon arrival.
Previous Minutes:
Minutes of the previous meeting were circulated via the BOINZ website
Correspondence In/Out:
None.
Board Report:
Nick Hill's update and overview of the Institutes activity later in the agenda is in lieu of this item normally provided by President Kerry Walsh.
General Business:
- The calendar dates for the 2019 Branch meetings are now set and available on the BOINZ website.
- The 2019 Senior Building Control Officers Forum will be held in Wellington 21st August to 23rd August. Registrations are now open. The technical programme will be available in a couple of weeks.
Guest Speakers:
Richard Lorgelly, Training Assessor - Christchurch City Council
Richard advised he is a Training Assessor for Christchurch City and that he recently presented at the BOINZ Annual Conference in Rotorua.
Richard gave an overview of his professional journey through the industry as a builder, designer and Building Control Officer culminating in his current role. He talked about the specific challenges he saw impacting each role and how each discipline needs to look at working together to achieve the common goal.
Richard then asked members in attendance who are Builders, Designers and Building Control Officers working for and what they have in common. Richard was making the point to the members that in all three lines of work, the most important outcome, was to provide the best result for the people we work for.
Nick Hill, Chief Executive Officer - Building Officials Institute of New Zealand
Nick gave an update on the Institutes activity beginning with a presentation titled '5 Years in 5 Minutes' which he acknowledged was likely to take longer that than the title suggested. Nick as part of this topic outlined clearly the structure of BOINZ, its purpose and challenges and how it has evolved over the last 5 years. Other areas covered in this overview were Skill Shortages, Finance (change of accountant), new HR Division, Accreditation Division, Insurance, Education and Membership and Marketing.
Following this, Nick talked about the Board's recent Strategic Review, and its new headline focus on Membership and Training and Advocacy. The BOINZ vision and mission remain unchanged. He reiterated the importance of the Institute's commitment to Education and ongoing Training course development for both BOINZ as the provider and for individual member improvement. He outlined the "3-Doors" philosophy for the Institute's training direction Applicability, Accountability and Affordability, and the new focus on the "Online Training Academy" programme. The first being the new "Restricting Access to Residential Pools"
Nick also encouraged all members to familiarise themselves with the BOINZ website and BOINZ Facebook page ensuring they keep up to date, not only with what BOINZ is up to, but also what is happening in our industry. BOINZ posts news items daily on both channels. This is the fastest way you will get local and international news items.
Finally, Nick gave an overview of the proposed Building Services Legislative Reform package recently released from MBIE and what the BOINZ positions over the last 2 years have been and highlighted some of the responses to the proposals already consulted and agreed upon.
The BOINZ submission will be on the BOINZ member site after it has been sent to MBIE on 16th June.
David Hutt, Principle Building Official - Christchurch City Council
David also provided a presentation on the proposed Building Legislative reform in respect of some Christchurch City Council positions and explained what Christchurch City Councils submission, will be making. David, like Nick encouraged members to inform themselves on the proposal and to submit comments before the cut-off date Sunday 16th June/
Please find Nick's Presentation here
Please find Richard's Presentation here
Please find David's Presentation here
Next Branch Meeting: 6th August 2019
Richard Lorgelly extended a special thank you to all in attendance and to all guest presenters. He then closed the meeting at 6.40pm.
Jennifer Clarke
Canterbury/Westland
Jennifer.clarke@ccc.govt.nz
