Build 98: Preventing disease
Are buildings making us sick? Complex buildings - meeting the challenges in complex builds.
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Are buildings making us sick? Complex buildings - meeting the challenges in complex builds.
New Zealand has a building regime that is performance based rather than prescriptive. An adjunct to this regime, most successfully used for complex buildings, is a ‘performance’ specification – where performance requirements are written into the specifications rather than details. The more prescriptive details come later in the process.
The proposed building practitioners’ licences will relate to the complexity of buildings worked on. The highest category, three, covers large or special-use buildings, such as hospitals. You can see why when looking at Christchurch’s new Women’s Hospital and the complex challenges met by the team putting it together.
As licensing of building practioners approaches we focus on the categories of buildings being built now and how many people will be needed in the different licence classes in the future.