Minutes of the EAST COAST BRANCH TRAINING AND NETWORKING EVENT held on
20 July 2023
at 3:03pm
at Havelock Function Centre
30 Te Mata Road, Havelock North
Welcome:
Branch Chair Melanie Scrivens welcomed all members and introduced guest speakers, Carmel Francis from Futurebuild, Chris Ross from Allco, BOINZ Chief Executive Nick Hill and BOINZ Board Member Cory Lang
Attendance:
Melanie Scrivens, Karen Walker, Nigel Moore, Matt Holmes, Peter Wiggins, Mike Copper, Morrie Blumenthal, Barry Nikolaisen, James Stuart, Thomas Kerr, Nick Hill BOINZ Chief Executive
On Teams:
Cory Lang BOINZ Board Members, Simbai Manyumwa
Apologies:
Paul Simmonds, Tony Manunui, Qing Lu, Rick Capel, Murray Lougher, Duncan Renner
Moved: Matt Holmes Second: Barry Nikolaison
Guests:
Chris Ross from Allco
Carmel Francis from Futurebuild
Previous Minutes:
Minutes from previous meeting circulated and confirmed as read.
Matters Arising:
No matters arising identified from previous minutes
Moved: Nigel Moore Second: Matt Holmes
Correspondence In/Out:
- The SBCO forum is in Blenheim 19-21 August and registrations are still open, book now.
General Business:
Nothing mentioned.
Board Representative Update:
BOINZ Board Member Cory Lang provided the Board update.
Building Code Issues:
Barry Nikolaison queried how fast Multi-Use consents will take to be updated to demonstrate compliance with new Building Code requirements for H1-Energy Efficiency, assuming MBIE are aware of the issue and intend to update documentation and queried if MBIE were aware of the issues that this was currently creating in the industry.
Guest Presentations:
Carmel Francis
Presented on Futurebuild LVL and gave a demonstration of DesignIT and noting that the site app, DesignIT Onsite is available from the App Store for Apple and Google Play for Android, to provide additional support on site.
Nick Hill
Presented on the proposed new Constitution identifying the key changes and reasons for them. The draft Constitution was circulated, and Nick requested any feedback by email to Vivian Menard at ea@boinz.org.nz. Feedback from the membership is encouraged.
Chris Ross
Presented via Teams on Volclay Voltex and Volclay Swelltite to identify the benefits of the Bentonite products which provide active waterproofing. The products are applicator only products and applicators are trained and approved by Allco to ensure control of the process.
Melanie Scrivens thanked all presenters and attendees and closed the meeting at 5:09pm
Karen Walker
East Coast Branch Secretary
