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This is the term commonly used to describe the process of repairing, restoring or upgrading a building to make it code compliant. There are two possibilities: targeted repairs or a full reclad. These are discussed at length on the "Obtaining a CCC page". In order to decide which is appropriate for your situation, hopefully you will have had a thorough investigation completed as described on the "Reports and Surveys" page. Following the recommendations in that report, the process will follow roughly the same path for both targeted repairs and a full reclad, however one significant difference might be the Council: you may be told by whomever undertakes the initial investigation that the work can be done without a building consent.
The short answer is, not much - without obtaining Council's blessing one way or another. The link below should take you straight the Schedule 1 (Exempt building work) of the Building Act, which was changed (again) in 2008 and these changes came into effect in April 2008. Schedule 1 lists the work which which does not require consent - but (typically of a statute) somewhat confusingly, by using double negatives. It starts off by saying: "That's okay, you don't need a building consent for simple maintenance, and that means you can replace stuff too". Sounds good. But then it gets into limiting the definition, by spelling out what sorts of maintenance you do, after all, need to get a consent for. And the bottom line is found at (a) (iii) where it says,: "Oh yeah and by the way, you need a consent for touching anything that might be remotely connected to durability or weathertightness".
But all is not lost. Further on down at (k) (ii) There is a neat little clause that gives the Council a lot of power to basically say: "Go away and do what you propose, we don't need to know". If you can convince them of the merits of doing this, get it in writing!
Now please don't take my flippant interpretations seriously - go and read the clause yourself and decide what it means.
Update end of September 2008 - Schedule 1 has just been changed again, here is a link to the latest version (which needs to be read in conjunction with the previous version for now) . Basically - now you will be able to do more without a consent - but still only relatively minor things. More
One way or another - consent or no consent - you need someone to be responsible. This could be an engineer, architect or building surveyor - or possibly even the home owner. This person needs to have the experience, confidence and credibility to take control and coordinate everything. It could easily be the person who just did the report. Depending on the extent of the work to be done, Council may take some convincing the person you have in mind has what it takes. If you plan to do it without a consent - obtain buy in (in writing) from Concil. Don't commit to anyone before checking your local Council will accept them being in charge. You might want help making this first step - in which case Lighthouse NZ could be a good place to start. On the "Other consultants" page I have put a few of my own (biased) comments on some of the main players in Auckland.
I recommend this at a very early stage. Unless the person in charge has already done this many times, it is worth it and absolutely essential if you are proposing "targeted" repairs or have someone in mind to be in charge that Council is not familiar with. Council would far rather make time to meet you for a general discussion early on rather than have you turn up with a proposal they have to reject. The areas which Council may want the person in charge to be responsible for vary from just certifying the extent of the decayed framing that has to be replaced right up to issuing a Producer Statement for the whole job. This can become a game of "Pass the Risk" where the various parties attempt to deflect as much risk as possible. Again, it is preferable to get this sorted out early on. Generally, the more "Acceptable Solutions" that are proposed, the less risk there is for everyone. Most Auckland Councils have now adopted a form of "Quality Assurance" to satisfy themselves remedial work and reclads are done properly.
This must be done is sufficient detail for everyone involved to be sure the proposed works will meet the relevant performance requirements of the building code. To do this a combination of drawings, specifications and technical literature is usually required.
There are now quite a large number of builders specialising in remediation. They will probably have their own category in the yellow pages soon. For a reclad, the person organising the project should have prepared a full set of tender and contract documents to send out to selected builders. These documents will separate out the areas which it is not reasonable to quote on - and they are generally quite small, just the actual replacement of decayed framing, as this cannot be quantified with certainty prior to the cladding coming off. Everything can either be quoted for or set aside via "provisional sums" and "prime costs". This enables a good comparison to be made between the various builders who are also required to disclose their charge out rates and margins for the "charge up" work (the framing replacement).
The hard part. From the point at which the building consent is issued, the job becomes similar to a "normal" construction project, which means writing out cheques at regular intervals. The main difference is that the person in charge (the "Engineer to the contract") should be acting as project manager or clerk of works - a bit like having a building inspector come almost every day. This in addition to the inspections carried out by the Council.
This is only going to happen if all the steps above have been followed. There are no short cuts to getting a Code Compliance Certificate. All the parties involved share responsibility for the work to a greater or lesser extent: who has to provide what in terms of paperwork at the end should have been sorted out at consent stage. At the very least, the person agreed to by Council will be signing off on the framing - certifying it, in effect. The final straw is that Council is empowered by Law to withhold the CCC until you pay every last cent outstanding to them.