Building consent authority webinars

Last updated: 8 February 2021

If you work for a building consent authority tune into our quarterly webinars to hear directly from Building Performance on topics and issues that impact BCAs and councils.

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 BCA webinar will be announced soon. 

Previous webinars

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 

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