Earthquake Royal Commission - first technical report
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Building Failure Caused by the Canterbury and Christchurch Earthquakes has released the first of its technical reports. The Commission has a website here, and all the Commission's technical reports will be made available here.
The first technical report, System of Building Controls is from the Department of Building and Housing. It is a background paper which "outlines the general system of building controls prior to 1991 but not how the system was applied locally by Christchurch City Council. The report also covers the current building regulatory system."
The report can be found here. Information on the content of the report is listed below.
1. Letter from the Department of Building and Housing to the Royal Commission, 27th May 2011
2. Briefing to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into building failure caused by the Canterbury Earthquakes: The building regulatory framework, May 2011
Includes information about:
Building (Specified Systems, Change of use, and Earthquake-prone Buildings) Regulations 2005.
5. Regulation of the Engineering Profession
Diagram of the relationship between building regulation, structural design and standards and building methods since the Napier earthquake (referred to in paragraphs 3.3 and 4.5 of the Briefing to Royal Commission of Inquiry into building failure caused by the Canterbury Earthquakes about the building regulatory framework).
8. Appendix A, Section 2: The building regulatory system
Performance-based Building Regulatory Systems, Principles and Experiences: A Report of the Inter-jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee February 2010. Brian J. Meacham, Editor
9. Appendix A, Section 3: The development of structural design and standards
Overview timeline of Standards relating to determination of loads and methods of determining loads, compiled by Standards New Zealand 2011.
10. Appendix A, Section 4: Building Act tools for the upgrading of the structural performance of buildings
Building Safety Evaluation During a State of Emergency – Guidelines for Territorial Authorities, New Zealand Society for earthquake Engineering, August 2009.
12. Appendix A, Section 6: The Department’s investigation into the building collapses
Terms of Reference for the Technical Investigation into the Performance of Buildings in the Christchurch CBD in the 22 February Christchurch Aftershock.
The report can be found here.
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The first technical report, System of Building Controls is from the Department of Building and Housing. It is a background paper which "outlines the general system of building controls prior to 1991 but not how the system was applied locally by Christchurch City Council. The report also covers the current building regulatory system."
The report can be found here. Information on the content of the report is listed below.
1. Letter from the Department of Building and Housing to the Royal Commission, 27th May 2011
2. Briefing to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into building failure caused by the Canterbury Earthquakes: The building regulatory framework, May 2011
Includes information about:
- The building regulatory system
- The development of seismic design and standards
- Building Act tools for upgrading structural performance of buildings
- The post earthquake assessment of buildings
- The department’s investigation into the building collapses
- Minute of Decision
- Building Act review – further proposed amendments
- Building Act review 1: Overview of reform proposals
- Building Act review 2: Delivering accountability in the residential construction sector
- Building Act review 3: Stepped consenting
- Building Act review 4: Exemptions from requirement to have a building consent
- Building Act review 5: Delivering building regulation
- Appendix 1: Regulatory Impact Assessment
Building (Specified Systems, Change of use, and Earthquake-prone Buildings) Regulations 2005.
5. Regulation of the Engineering Profession
- Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Act 2002
- Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Rules (No 2) 2002
- Registered Architects Act 2005
- Registered Architects Rules 2006
Diagram of the relationship between building regulation, structural design and standards and building methods since the Napier earthquake (referred to in paragraphs 3.3 and 4.5 of the Briefing to Royal Commission of Inquiry into building failure caused by the Canterbury Earthquakes about the building regulatory framework).
8. Appendix A, Section 2: The building regulatory system
Performance-based Building Regulatory Systems, Principles and Experiences: A Report of the Inter-jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee February 2010. Brian J. Meacham, Editor
9. Appendix A, Section 3: The development of structural design and standards
Overview timeline of Standards relating to determination of loads and methods of determining loads, compiled by Standards New Zealand 2011.
10. Appendix A, Section 4: Building Act tools for the upgrading of the structural performance of buildings
- Earthquake Prone Building Provisions of the Building Act 2004 – Policy Guidance for Territorial Authorities, Department of Building and Housing
- Assessment and Improvement of the Structural Performance of Buildings in earthquakes: Recommendations of a NZSEE Study Group on earthquake Risk Buildings, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering June 2006
- References and Appendices
Building Safety Evaluation During a State of Emergency – Guidelines for Territorial Authorities, New Zealand Society for earthquake Engineering, August 2009.
12. Appendix A, Section 6: The Department’s investigation into the building collapses
Terms of Reference for the Technical Investigation into the Performance of Buildings in the Christchurch CBD in the 22 February Christchurch Aftershock.
The report can be found here.
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