2025 Advanced Series
Brought to you by BOINZ and Heaney & Partners
To sharpen and fine tune your building surveying career, the Advanced Learning - Workshop Series is the ideal step on the learning pathway for more experienced building surveying professionals, including current and future leaders in the sector.
BOINZ and Heaney & Partners are partnering to bring you this Advanced Series made up of four advanced half-day courses across two days at the Copthorne Hotel, Oriental Parade, Wellington, delivered by experienced industry professionals.
Combining theory and practice, each course examines key principles - Building Act and Building Code requirements - and their application to real, more complex situations.
A Networking event will be held at the end of day one.
Enrolments
Enrolment in the full series, including the networking event, is now open. Enrol in the full series by contacting training@boinz.org.nz.
Enrolment in individual courses is also now open. Enrol in individual events via the event listing in the website Training Calendar.
Please contact training@boinz.org.nz for any help with enrolments.
Prices:
Full series, including networking event - Members $1,836.00 ex GST - Non members $2,236.00 ex GST.
Individual courses - Members $540.00 ex GST per course - Non members $740.00 ex GST per course.
Networking event - Members $50.00 ex GST - Non members $50.00 ex GST.
Series Programme
Day One, Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Alterations to Existing Buildings, 8.30am - 12.00pm
Chris Randell - Building Compliance Solutions, Frana Divich - Heaney & Partners
Sharpen your understanding, apply consistently and avoid common pitfalls with Section 112 - one of the most applied (and often misunderstood) sections of the Building Act 2004. Covers: triggers, escape from fire and access upgrading requirements, the ANARP test, meaning of "continue to apply", Section 112(2), balancing benefits and detriments, and 'what not to do-s'.
Fire challenges in medium-density housing 1pm - 4.30pm
Derek Robertson - Holmes Consulting
Medium-density housing can appear fairly innocuous and simple for many design disciplines. However, fire engineering design and associated construction can become quite complex due to the confluence of sleeping Risk Groups and title boundaries created. This workshop aims to instil confidence in senior building officials to identify common pitfalls and consider what questions to ask during consenting and construction.
Networking event, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
An event designed to facilitate discussion and sharing of knowledge and experiences among facilitators and participants.
Day Two, Thursday, 9 October 2025
Dangerous, affected and insanitary buildings 8.30am - 12.00pm
Chris Randell - Building Compliance Solutions, Frana Divich - Heaney & Partners
A practical walk-through of what makes a building 'dangerous', how councils assess risk and the steps taken under Section 124 to ensure public safety. Extend your knowledge and learning on how to identify hazards, interpret the legislation and apply the law with confidence in the field. Includes: identifying dangerous buildings (observations, engineering assessments or fire reports, building's use), taking action (notices) and typical council process (from inspection to monitoring/reinspection).
Determinations 1.00pm - 4.30pm
A discussion framework
Hazel McColl - MBIE
Improve the way you and your team record and communicate technical decisions. This session takes a practical look at methods of recording technical decisions and communicating them in plain English, drawing on the Determinations discussion framework.
Building an application/case
Shay Harrop - Building Cycle
In this workshop you will draw on learning from the previous sessions to create an application for determination and gain competency in collecting evidence relating to Building Code clauses and building a robust case, an important task for senior building surveyors.
Enquiries
Please contact training@boinz.org.nz if you have any questions or need any help with enrolments.
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