News and Media Releases
Please see below for news and media releases relating to Building Officials.
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2 August 2019
A Wellington construction business owner says planned changes to the polytechnic and vocation education will have "diabolical" effects.
29 July 2019
Hamilton City Council is making changes after concerns about buildings that do not have warrants of fitness.
25 July 2019
The owner of a tiny home in rural North Canterbury is taking a Government department to court to highlight a legal anomaly that could affect fellow small place dwellers.
25 July 2019
The Government is moving to transform the nebulous Resource Management Act (RMA), the main law that constrains development in New Zealand.
23 July 2019
CertMark International Pty Ltd (CMI) has withdrawn from the New Zealand CodeMark scheme effective from midnight 22 July 2019. This follows its recent suspension as a product certification body (PCB) by the Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ).
23 July 2019
Local councils are being asked to sign off on major buildings when they have big gaps in what they know about the steel frames and seismic strength.
23 July 2019
Three years after nearly losing its accreditation to issue building consents, the Queenstown Lakes District Council's building consents team's performance has improved out of sight, its manager says.
22 July 2019
Modern homes have a much shorter lifespan than many of their owners appreciate, construction law expert Tanya Wood says.
22 July 2019
Tasman district residents are being urged to stay calm if they receive a letter indicating their property may be at risk from sea level rise and storm tides.
19 July 2019
Building inspectors say the deteriorating veranda on the Hallenstein's Building in Whanganui's central city is "unsightly" but it has no imminent structural issues.
