Building consent authority webinars

About our webinars

Our webinar series is designed for Building Consent Authorities to hear directly from Building Performance on our programme of work and also offers the opportunity to engage and ask questions.

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Upcoming webinars

The date for the next webinar will be announced soon. 

Previous webinars

12 December 2023, 11:00am

The webinar was hosted by David Hall, General Manager Building Performance, who gave an update on our work programmes. The webinar also heard from:

• Andy Thompson and Sophie Cunningham from our Building System Delivery & Assurance Team, who discussed BuiltReady, CodeMark and building product information requirements.
• Andrew Eames, Principal Advisor Building Resolution, who discussed what we are seeing in the disputes space and how we are evolving and changing our processes to engage with parties and arrive at more timely decisions.

Watch the December 2023 Better Building webinar - Youtube

11 July 2023, 11:00am

• Dave Gittings, Manager Building Performance and Engineering hosted the webinar and talked about the Building Code update programme.
• Amy Moorhead, Manager Building Policy gave an update on the building consent system consultation.
• Suzannah Toulmin, Manager Building for Climate Change discussed the new Operational Efficiency Methodology.
• Eddie Hebert, Building Emergency Management Manager talked about the rollout of rapid building assessor training. 

Watch the July 2023 Better Building webinar - Youtube

9 May 2023, 11:00am 

This webinar covered the following topics:

• Introducing David Hall, General Manager Building Performance.
• Building Levy consultation.
• Occupational regulation reforms consultation.
• Seismic Work Programme.
• Building emergency management.
• The new compliance schedule and BWoF guidance.

Watch the May 2023 Better Building webinar - Youtube

6 December 2022, 11:00am

This webinar covered the following topics:

• An end of year perspective.
• Building consent system review.
• Consultation on new accreditation regulations.
• Building Code update timeframes.
• The proposed introduction of energy certificates and waste minimization plans.

Watch the December 2022 Better Building webinar

11 October 2022, 11:00am

This webinar covered the following topics:

• the review into the building consent system.
• the recent extension to H1 changes.
• Building for climate Change
• BuiltReady and the strengthening of CodeMark. 
• building emergency management, and the rapid building assessor function.

Watch the October 2022 Better Building webinar

12 April 2022, 3:30pm

This webinar covered the following topics:

• Building system law reform.
• Consenting.
• Exemplar compliance schedule. 
• The 2022 Building Code update.
• Building for Climate Change.

Watch the April 2022 Better Building webinar

7 December 2021

This webinar covered the following topics:

• Building for climate change.
• The recently released Tiny House Guidance.
• The recently updated Product Substitution Guidance.
• Biennial BCA accreditation report.
• Building Code updates 2021.

Watch the December 2021 Better Building webinar

23 June 2021

This webinar covered the following topics:

• Building for climate change.
• Building law reform and the proposed regulations.
• BCA assessments.
• Good ground.

Watch the June 2021 Better Building webinar

31 March 2021

This webinar covered the following topics:

• Consenting.
• Building for climate change.
• Building law reforms.
• The annual Building Code update.

Due to a technical issue, this webinar is broken up into two parts.

Watch John Sneyd, Building Performance GM discuss consenting and climate change

Watch Amy Moorhead, Policy Manager discuss building law reform, and Devin Glennie, Principal Advisor for the Building Code discuss the annual Code update

2 December, 2020

This webinar covered the following topics:

• Consenting and consent exemptions
• Our roadmap to digitalising the Building Code, including a demonstration of TekReader
• The Good Ground project
• Key themes from recent BCA assessments

Watch the December 2020 Better Building webinar