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Assess building consent applications for the service elements of small
buildings
Level
5
Credits
20
Purpose
This unit standard is for Building Control Surveyors who assess building
consent applications for the service elements of small buildings. People
credited with this unit standard are able to assess building consent
applications for the service elements of small buildings.
Subfield
Compliance and Law Enforcement
Domain
Building Control Surveying
Status
Registered
Status date
25 January 2008
Date version published
17 October 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
The Skills Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
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This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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Compliance with the following legislation, regulations, and codes is required:
Building Act 2004
Privacy Act 1993
The Building Code
Building (Forms) Regulations 2004.
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The scope of buildings assessed within this unit standard fall generally within the
coverage of New Zealand Standards 3604:1999 Timber Framed Buildings and
4229:1999 Concrete masonry buildings not requiring specific engineering design,
available at http://www.standards.co.nz/default.htm.
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Definitions
Small buildings are small-scale, lightweight buildings, generally of non-specific
design, and of domestic scale with lightweight framing and/or concrete or concrete
masonry construction.
Quality Management Systems (QMS) refers to a formal management system that
establishes policy and objectives (and ways of achieving them) in order to direct and
control an organisation with regard to quality.
All other definitions and further information can be referenced in the Building Code
Handbook http://www.dbh.govt.nz/UserFiles/File/Publications/Building/Compliance–
documents/handbook.pdf.
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Reference documents:
The Building Code Compliance Documents
http://www.dbh.govt.nz/building–code–compliance–documents;
Building Officials – Building Act 2004 overview
http://www.dbh.govt.nz/bofficials-buiding-act-2004-overview.
Elements and Performance criteria
Element 1
Assess building consent applications for the service elements of small buildings.
Range
two new projects and two alterations – with a minimum of one building including
an alternative wastewater disposal solution.
Performance criteria
1.1
Building consent service documentation is reviewed for compliance with the
Building Code and quality management system (QMS).
Range
1.2
Service elements of building consents are approved or rejected in accordance
with the QMS.
Range
1.3
may include but is not limited to – stormwater, wastewater, potable
water, on-site effluent disposal systems, on-site storage of
potable/grey water, solar systems, gas systems, solid fuel with wet
back.
approval may be required from other affected statutory bodies and
network utility operators to ensure that the consent is not in breach
of other statutes or regulations.
Documents are managed in accordance with the Building Act 2004 and QMS.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
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Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact The Skills Organisation info@skills.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
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