Week 2 Preliminairies Research

I did some research on preliminaries and I found out that the Department of building and housing is responsible to ensure that good quality homes and buildings are built in New Zealand. I visited the website of this department and it helped me get most of the answers.

http://www.dbh.govt.nz/

What is the purpose of the building act and regulations ?
The main purpose of the building act is to improve control of, and encourage better practices in, building design and construction.

Building regulations form an important part of New Zealand’s building controls.
Building regulations are made under and in accordance with the Building Act 2004 (the Act). The type of regulations that can be made, including the process that must be followed when creating new regulations are given in Sections 400-415 of the Act.
The Building Regulations 1992, and subsequent amendments, were made under the Building Act 1991 but are now treated as if they were regulations made under the Act. However, the majority of the 1992 Regulations were revoked on 31 March 2005 by the Building (Forms) Regulations 2004. The only part of the 1992 Regulations continuing in force is Schedule 1 containing the Building Code.
What is the function of the building code ?

What is the function of the building code ?
The Building Code sets out performance standards that building work must meet, and covers aspects such as structural stability, fire safety, access, moisture control, durability, services and facilities.

What is the building code ?
The Building Code consists of two preliminary clauses and 35 technical clauses. Each technical clause contains:

1. an Objective - The social objective that completed building work must achieve
2. a Functional requirement - What the completed building work must do to satisfy the social objective
3. Performance criteria - Qualitative or quantitative criteria which nominates how far the completed building work must go in order to comply.

Under which law are you covered at work ?
All workers are covered by the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 which is to promote the prevention of harm to all people at work, and others in, or in the vicinity of, places of work.

Info from department of labour site

http://www.osh.dol.govt.nz/law/hse.shtml