Council Building Service retains Accreditation

Council's Building Team has again successfully retained its accreditation as a Building Control Authority following a successful audit by International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ).

"This ensures Council can continue to deliver a cost effective building control service to residents and ratepayers," said Sharon Robinson, Council's Regulatory Group Manager.

"We are very pleased with the feedback from the assessors," said Kevin Duthie, Council's Building Control Manager. "They acknowledged that our system has matured well over the years and this translates into efficient processing. They found the audit process itself productive and noted the helpfulness of our team."

The audit took four days and looked at every aspect of the consenting process including vetting, processing and inspection.

The team had a few small procedural items to tidy up, many of which were associated with the current transition period between the old system and AlphaOne. All elements have since been resolved between when the audit was conducted in August to now, when we received formal notification of accreditation.

"This is brilliant work from the building team," said Mayor Jenny Shattock. "We note that the team are processing the usual number of consents with a new online system AlphaOne and hosting the auditors at the same time. Awesome outcome."

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