Specialty Timbers New ZealandThe Building Act
The Building Act 2004 provides the framework for New Zealand’s building control system. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) administers the Building Act.
MBIE Compliance provisions prescribe how a building design must comply with the NZ Building Code. The Building Code sets minimum performance standards for all New Zealand building work and designs. The Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods set out in these provisions must be accepted by building consent authorities as demonstrating compliance with the Building Code.
Compliance provisions often reference New Zealand Standards (subject to any modification MBIE considers appropriate). These Compliance provisions provide:
- Prescriptive tests or calculating methods (Called Verification Methods), or
- Prescriptive step-by-step methods (Called Acceptable Solutions).
Amendments can also be made to Compliance provisions.
The Building Code handbook "shows the relationship between the New Zealand Building Code (the Building Code) and various other Provisions that ensure buildings in New Zealand are safe and healthy to use".
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