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Building and Repairs – Checklists and Guides
ConsumerBuild is a website developed jointly by the Department of Building and Housing and Consumer New Zealand (with support from other organisations including BRANZ, Consumer Affairs and Standards...
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EQC response to questions from CCC
The CCC has added more to its web page Answers to questions raised at recent Council community meetings. The CCC put a number of unspecified questions to both the EQC and the Insurance Council of New...
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Competent tradespeople – Licensed Building Practitioners (LBP)
A big unknown is who can be considered a suitable trades person when we need something looked at and fixed. The advice from the Department of Building and Housing is to choose a Licensed Building...
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Repair work – Fletchers and Quality Control
Continuing with the quality theme, most of us will be out of our depth trying to determine whether work done on our behalf is of an acceptable quality and if suitable materials have been used. Those...
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Fletchers – Legal and Contractual issues
The Information Update mentioned in the previous post contains additional interesting pointers as the how Fletchers intend to conduct the rebuild process. The extract below is their position, as of...
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Fletchers – Three strikes principle
In the Information Update (see the previous two posts) Fletchers also address the issue of contractors who fail to adhere to the rules set as part of their contract with Fletchers. Adherence to Rules...
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Fletchers – Project Management Guidelines
The final piece of useful information in the Information Update previously mentioned, is the following statement of Fletchers intentions with regard to how the project will operate. Overall intentions...
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Vero insurance and Mainzeal
Back in November Mainzeal posted an announcement regarding their relationship with Vero (and its associated companies) for the purpose of undertaking earthquake reconstruction work. The announcement,...
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State Insurance – rebuild information
State Insurance (part of IAG) have appointed Hawkins to manage their rebuild processes. All of their earthquake information can be accessed from here, including information on time frames and...
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CCC – Floor and Foundation Design Standards for earthquake damaged buildings
CCC today set up a new web page to provide information regarding floor and foundation design as it may apply to your property (i.e. already damaged land, or land that may experience liquifaction in the...
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