Introduction

This course provides the students with the skills and knowledge to provide support services to meet building regulatory operations and apply relevant parts of a quality management system to support approval processes.

Learning Outcomes

At the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply administrative services and maintain accurate records to assist and support building approval processes and compliance in a building regulatory environment

2. Use relevant technical and administrative requirements of a quality management system to provide administrative support services in a building regulatory environment.

This module covers:

Day 1: Requirements for a building consent application:

• Application and Form 2 of the Building Forms Regulations

• What are plans and specifications

• BCA Processes for building consent applications

Day 2: BCA processes relating to:

• Processing building consent applications

• Granting and issuing building consents

• Inspecting building work

• Certifying building work through the issue of a code compliance certificate

Day 3: Quality Management systems in BCAs

• how they relate to the above BCA processes

• Managing effective and systematic record keeping processes and the relevant legislation.

• Appropriate professional, ethical, social, and cultural practices in all aspects of support work.