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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) seeks your views on our proposals to increase the operational efficiency of buildings, and to reduce the embodied carbon across the lifecycle of buildings as part of the Building for Climate Change programme.

This is the fourth public consultation under the biannual Building Code update programme.

We sought your comment on proposals to amend specific Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods for the November 2019 Building Code update.

The eight week consultation period for the proposed dam safety regulatory framework closed on 6 August 2019. These regulations propose to establish a nationally consistent approach that will protect people, property and the environment from the potential impact of a large dam’s failure without imposing undue compliance costs.

We are proposing major changes to New Zealand’s building laws, to improve the quality of building work. These are the most significant reforms since the current Building Act was introduced in 2004.

This is the second public consultation under the new biannual update programme.

We are proposing to publish a new edition of Fire Acceptable Solution – C/AS2.

We are consulting on the following proposals to update and change the Building (Product Certification) Regulations 2008 (the Regulations) for the CodeMark Scheme (CodeMark).

We are seeking your comment on the proposals to amend the following Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods and the proposal to revoke the Simple House Acceptable Solution SH/AS1.