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Registrar’s update
Welcome to another edition of LBP knowledge, a must-read for LBPs’ skills maintenance.
WITH 2018 well under way, I thought it would be helpful to give an update on what’s coming up for LBPs. To start, our refreshed LBP website is now up and running, so please take some time to have a look at it. We hope it meets your needs and is more responsive than the former version.
Key standards and handbook now free
In other news, MBIE recently sponsored ve building standards and a handbook, making them free to download from the Standards New Zealand website. The publications are: ● NZS 3902:2004 Housing, alterations and
small buildings contract
● NZS 4121:2001 Design for access and
mobility: Buildings and associated facilities
● NZS 4218:2009 Thermal insulation – housing and small buildings
● NZS 4514:2009 Interconnected smoke alarms for houses
● NZS 8500:2006 Safety barriers and fences around swimming pools, spas and hot tubs ● SNZ HB 3604:2011 Timber-framed build- ings – Selected extracts from NZS 3604:2011. Building-related standards, under spon- sored standards on the Standards New Zealand website have further information.
This month’s reading
Our rst LBP article in this Build relates to the release of the NZS 3604:2011 handbook. We also cover two NZS 3604-related issues that have come to both MBIE’s and the
Building Practitioners Board’s attention through an LBP complaint or general query. Our second article relates to NZS 3902:2004 Housing, alterations and small buildings contract (see pages 98–99). The standard form contract meets the requirements of the consumer protection parts of the Building Act so it is an important tool for all LBPs who administer
building contracts.
Thanks for reading – until the next edition.
Paul Hobbs
Registrar Building Practitioner Licensing
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