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Presentation to Harbour City Rotary Wednesday 19 February 2014

Presentation to Harbour City Rotary Wednesday 19 February 2014. Neville Brown, Manager Building Resilience. Discussion Topics. Current Building Assessment Programme Funding Incentives Key Points from Changes to Building Act. Building Assessment Pre-1976. Will complete by June this year

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Presentation to Harbour City Rotary Wednesday 19 February 2014

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  1. Presentation to Harbour City RotaryWednesday 19 February 2014 Neville Brown, Manager Building Resilience

  2. Discussion Topics • Current Building Assessment Programme • Funding Incentives • Key Points from Changes to Building Act

  3. Building Assessment Pre-1976 • Will complete by June this year • Then consider how we evaluate all other buildings as will be required by new legislation

  4. Funding Support for EQP Buildings • For owners of Heritage Buildings, a small fund, Built Heritage Incentive Fund is available $400k • Targeted at Heritage Building owners intended as an initial hand up to get started

  5. Funding Support – Cont. • Two rates related initiatives at consultation. • Plus cash rebate on Consent cost

  6. Key matters in the revision to Building Act related to EQPB • %NBS remains at 34% That has been deemed the minimum tolerable Life Safety Risk. What we don’t yet know is how this will be tagged to the revision of the Act • Clarity in the Act that parts of a building may now be earthquake prone

  7. Cont. • There is to be an online National Register of Buildings and their status. Data maintained by TA’s, the register overseen by MBIE • All commercial buildings will need to be assessed within 5 years of legislation. • That doesn’t mean reassessed if a building owner already has a detailed engineering report • We will be seeking the cooperation of building owners in this regard to minimise the resources involved

  8. Cont. • 15 years is the timeline in which to strengthen buildings to the extent that they are not Earthquake Prone • TA’s can require buildings likely to have a significant impact on public safety to be strengthened more quickly • The contentions matter – S112 of the Act may be loosened to allow EQ strengthening to be undertaken without impact on fire services and egress

  9. The Current State • The 1st reading of paper is underway in The House • Referral to Select Committee imminent • Likely to have a 6 week period in which to lodge submissions

  10. Questions

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