2026 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 three advanced training workshops, a Regulatory Address and Networking Event across two days, delivered by experienced industry professionals.  

Combining theory and practice, sessions examine key principles - Building Act and Building Code requirements - and their application to real, more complex situations.

This year, we are excited to bring the BOINZ and Heaney & Partners Advanced Series closer to more of you, by holding the Series in both the North and South Islands:

  • 16-17 September, Scenic Hotel Cotswold, Christchurch
  • 23-24 September, Trinity Wharf, Tauranga.
Also this year, to enable morning travel, we will be starting day one training at 10.30am, after arrival morning tea at 10am.

Enrolments

Enrolment in the full series, including the networking event, is now open on the website Training Calendar. Check that you enroll for the correct location - Christchurch or Tauranga.

Enrolment in individual workshops plus the regulatory address and networking event will open soon for both locations.

Please contact training@boinz.org.nz for any help with enrolments.

Prices:

Full series, including Regulatory Address and Networking Event - Members $1,836.00 ex GST - Non members $2,236.00 ex GST.

Individual  Workshops - Members $540.00 ex GST per workshop - Non members $740.00 ex GST per workshop.

Regulatory Address with Networking Event - Members $540.00 ex GST - Non members $740.00 ex GST.

Series Programme - Christchurch and Tauranga

Day One, Wednesday

Workshop 1,  Staying watertight  on E2 alternative cladding solutions, 10.30am - 3.00pm (includes lunch)
Ron Pynenburg, Pynenburg Building Consultants

With a focus on assessing an R2 or R3 residential cladding Alternative Solution for compliance with Clause E2 External Moisture, this workshop will cover:

  • The Law: Building Act requirements (sections 16 – 19, 23, 49 and 112) and Building Code Clauses E2 and B2 applicable performance criteria
  • Assessment: Guidance, tools and methodology; relevant determinations and precedents; and application documentation
  • A Worked Example: application of the above
  • Workshop Cases: group work on construction details or similar, with presentations on group compliance conclusions and rationale.

Regulatory Address, How to provide information without being sued, 3.15pm - 4.45pm
Frana Divich, Heaney & Partners

Ratepayers and the courts expect that local and regional councils can be relied upon to maintain accurate records and provide information upon request. Requests by the public for information can come from a variety of sources including over-the-counter advice, LIMs, websites, district plans, and entries on the titles of properties.

Whenever information is provided, there is risk. The regulatory address will look at how to navigate that risky space – how to provide information that is useful, robust, and accurate, while protecting yourself and your employers from legal claims. Followed by the Networking Event.

Networking Event, 5.00pm - 6.30pm
An event to follow the Regulatory Address, designed to facilitate discussion and sharing of knowledge and experiences among facilitators and participants.


Day Two, Thursday

Workshop 2, Certificates for Public Use - Practical Assessment and Decision-Making, 8.30am - 12.00pm (includes morning tea)
Chris Randell - Building Compliance Solutions

This advanced course provides a practical, higher-level look at Certificates for Public Use, with a focus on the judgment calls that tend to make CPUs difficult in practice. Using practical examples and discussion, the session examines grey areas, common weaknesses in CPU applications, the evidence and site information needed to support a decision, and how to record reasons in a clear and defensible way.

Topics covered include: Legislative framework, When a CPU is required, Who is and is not “the public” for CPU purposes, What the TA is actually assessing, The relationship between the CPU, Compliance Schedule, and specified systems, Evidence and application material, Inspection and site assessment, Making the decision, Common problem areas, case studies, and key takeaways.

Workshop 3, Inspections - the Tricky to the Dicky, 1.00pm - 4.30pm (includes afternoon tea)
Jeff Fahrensohn - Fahrensohn Building Consultants

This workshop will look across the world of inspections and tackle some critical challenges they present, including:

  • Making hard calls under pressure - political, media and customer pressures, along with holding the line versus pragmatic solutions.
  • Managing high-risk staff decisions - when technical staff disagree and escalation frameworks.
  • Coaching versus Policing - shifting the inspector mindset in a competitive environment, enforcement options and developing judgement and risk management in junior staff.
  • Reputation risk - drawing on war stories, we'll use scenario-based events to learn from.

Enquiries

Please contact training@boinz.org.nz if you have any questions or need any help with enrolments.



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