Horowhenua District Council's building control processes pass with flying colours

Horowhenua District Council has once again gained IANZ Building Consent Authority Accreditation and passing with flying colours.

Council's building control process just had its latest two-yearly reassessment by IANZ (International Accreditation New Zealand) and for the third consecutive time achieved this with 'No Corrective Actions Required' - believed to be a first for a New Zealand council.

Accreditation of the building control processes within councils in New Zealand was introduced in 2006 as a means of ensuring that a council’s building practices met criteria and standards across a number of regulated requirements. Every two years an external assessment is conducted by IANZ to ensure compliance with a range of needs from competence of staff, observance of written policies and procedures, and assuring quality. There are 14 regulations with a number of subsets within those regulations that need to be met, but most importantly maintained and delivered continuously.

The outcomes from these two-yearly assessments can result in tagged or untagged outcomes, ranging from Corrective Actions that need to be addressed within an agreed timeframe, through to having to make improvements to practices and procedures that have been identified during the review but are not of a serious enough nature that they need to be addressed by a Corrective Action.

Horowhenua District Council underwent the latest routine reassessment at the end of April and IANZ has reported back that the Council had achieved an outcome of no Corrective Action requirements.

Customer and Community Services Group Manager Monique Davidson said while IANZ did make some recommendations, these were minor in nature and designed to enhance what was already in place.

"This result is reflective that our staff are doling what our procedures say that we do, and that our policies and systems are robust, which together should give confidence to all those involved in the building industry when dealing with us," Mrs Davidson said.

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