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Assess building consent applications for small buildings
Level
5
Credits
25
Purpose
This unit standard is for Building Control Surveyors who are required to
review consents. People credited with this unit standard are able to complete
the lodgement and assessment process of Project Information
Memorandums (PIM) for small buildings and complete the post-lodgement
and assessment processes of building consent applications for 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.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 7226.
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
Protected Disclosures Act 2000
Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908
Privacy Act 1993
Electricity Act 1992
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 NZS 3604:1999 Timber Framed Buildings, NZS 3109:1997 Concrete
construction and NZS 4229:1999 Concrete masonry buildings not requiring specific
engineering design, available from 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.
The Building Code includes referenced standards and supporting documents
included in the Building Code Handbook.
District Plan means an operative plan approved by a Territorial Authority under
Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act 1991; and includes all operative
changes to such a plan (whether arising from a review or otherwise).
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
Complete the lodgement and assessment process of Project Information Memorandums
(PIM) for small buildings.
Range
one new project.
Performance criteria
1.1
Documentation required for lodging a PIM for a small building is reviewed in
terms of the requirements of the quality management system (QMS).
1.2
The process for lodging the PIM is completed in accordance with the QMS.
1.3
PIM documentation for a small building is reviewed in accordance with the
QMS.
Range
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.
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PIM information is supplied in accordance with the district plan and relevant site
conditions.
1.5
Documents are managed and stored in accordance with the Building Act 2004
and the QMS.
Element 2
Complete the post-lodgement and assessment process of building consent applications for
small buildings.
Range
two new projects and two alterations – with a minimum of one building including
an alternative cladding solution.
Performance criteria
2.1
Documentation required for a building consent application for a small building is
reviewed in terms of the requirements of the QMS.
2.2
The building consent applications process is completed in accordance with the
QMS.
2.3
Building consent application documentation for a small building is reviewed for
compliance with the Building Code and the 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.
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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