Welcome
...to the website of the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors. If you are looking for information about the services we provide, common problems found in houses, understandable definitions of terms commonly used in industry, or an indexed list of our members, then you have come to the right place!If you have any questions that you can’t find answers to on the site, please feel free to contact us, and we will answer your questions as best we can.
LEAKY HOMES AND WEATHERTIGHTNESS
Department of Building
& Housing
Weathertightness
- This site has been substantially rebuilt and is frequently updated. There is a great deal of useful
information. Read
More.
The NZ Herald has run articles about leaky homes since breaking the
story years ago. On 10/10/07 they are saying there are 80,000 people living in
30,000 rotting houses which will cost somewhere between 2.8 and 4.5 billion to
fix. Read
more
Consumer Build
This web site is the result of cooperation between the Department of Building and Housing and the Consumer Institute. These pages had a major overhaul in August 2008. Read More
CODE COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES
If you own a "monolithic"
clad house which is finished but the local Council will not issue a Code Compliance
Certificate, you may apply to the Department of Building and Housing (formally
the Building industry Authority (BIA) for a determination.
Find out about
Determinations here.