Building Product Specifications infographic text description

This infographic explains how incorporating overseas product standards into New Zealand’s building compliance pathways will make it quicker and easier to build. It is structured into several sections, each supported by icons and concise explanatory text.

Icon: A house on a plan with a pen beside it to show it is the design phase.
This section says how overseas products and standards will be incorporated into existing compliance pathways, making it easier to demonstrate compliance in the consent process.

Icon: A document with lines representing text, inside a yellow circle, which represents the Building Product Specifications. Each line is ticked green.
Fibre cement cladding which has an overseas standard in the Building Product Specifications is used as an example.
This fibre cement cladding can be used in a building design as it conforms to a standard cited in a Building Product Specification.

Icon: House and it says alongside it 'deemed to comply'.

Icon: Clipboard with a list of green ticks
If a product like fibre cement cladding is cited in the Building Product Specifications, and used in accordance with an Acceptable Solution or Verification Method, a Building Consent Authority must accept it as compliant with the Building Code.

Icon: A map of New Zealand inside a yellow circle.
Confidence in products
This section outlines how New Zealanders can trust the products cited in Building Product Specifications:

• Builders and designers can use these specifications to demonstrate compliance.
• Suppliers must provide a building product information requirement disclosure before selling a product in New Zealand.
• Designers and specifiers must assess whether a product is suitable for its intended use before including it in a design.

In the document foot is has Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and its logo and in the right corner New Zealand Government (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa).