Reducing risk, meeting your project’s regulatory and legal requirements. From fire safety to ensuring building resilience, our compliance services offer robust processes and peace of mind.
What Does Our Building Compliance Team Do?
Our Building Compliance team can assist in
ensuring your legislative obligations, regulatory
requirements along with all necessary areas of
property compliance are in place.
Our goal is to ensure that you are meeting and,
where possible, exceeding New Zealand legislative
requirements under the Building Act, Resource
Management Act, Hazardous Substances and New
Organisms Act.
We support local authorities, commercial and
not-for-profit organisations, assisting with Building
Warrants of Fitness, Fire Evacuations, Hazardous
Substances and Resource Consents.
Providing compliance services through our network
of regional and local offices helps WSP to further
meet and exceed expectations.
WSP designed BICs (Building Information
Compliance System), which can automatically
inform clients that their building warrant of fitness
is due and what type of specified systems and
contractors are attached to that service.
Referral of services to other extended WSP teams – (one stop shop)
WSP is experienced in management of multi company sites
Asbestos Management
Clients
Gibbons Holdings Limited
WSP has a
multi-generational relationship with Gibbons Holdings Limited. Gibbons Holdings is a family business property investment company.
Gibbons Holdings Limited
WSP has a multi-generational relationship with Gibbons Holdings Limited, where we have become the trusted advisors to
the Gibbons team for all manner of building and
property requirements.
As property investors/developers they have a diverse
blue-chip investment portfolio, including a large
open mall in Auckland, Stoneridge of Lunn.
WSP have been engaged for over 20 years plus to
complete Building Warrant of Fitness, Compliance,
Fire Evacuation, Asbestos Assessment and many
other property related services. This involves the
management of the BWoF compliance for their
55 + sites, annual IQP site visits and inspection,
collation of all required documentation, publication
of the new annual BWoF documentation, liaison
and reporting functions, the provision of audit
functions and evaluations for non-conforming
building issues.
Scope
Complete Building Warrant of Fitness services
Passive fire inspections
Monthly owners’ inspections
Onsite surveys and audits
Evacuation Schemes
Trial evacuations
Management of contractors – as to customer
needs
Referral of services to other extended WSP teams
– (one stop shop)
Asbestos reporting/testing and management
plans
Waitemata District Health Board
WSP specialises in the management, monitoring, and reporting on the delivery of compliance services within the Waitemata DHB.
Waitemata District Health Board
The Waitemata DHB project requires the identification, quality and competency assessments of a wide
range of supplier sub-contracting firms to provide on-site maintenance for Building Compliance to all
their sites (high consequence environments). WSP specialises in the management, monitoring, and
reporting on the delivery of these compliance services to meet the high-performance needs and criteria
of the client. We have been managing this type of service delivery for over 10 years and have built up
extensive experience to carry out work in a high consequence environments which has stringent Health
and Safety and quality control requirements.
Scope
Building Warrant of Fitness management service of over 66 buildings on various sites and compliance
schedules.
Fire consultancy advice, including Passive Fire advice
BWoF & IQP inspections
Quality inspection
Issuing BWoF Certificates
H&S planning
Risk Analysis and H&S management.
Kāinga Ora
WSP looks after Kāinga Ora Leased Property Inspections, New Zealand nationwide.
Kāinga Ora Homes and Communities
WSP were successful in securing the Fire
Evacuation Services Contract with Kāinga Ora
Homes and Communities. This contract is a 5-year
contract with two further rights of renewal for
an additional two years for each period (9-year
contract). This is a national contract with services
being delivered from Whangarei and Invercargill.
For this contract WSP primarily deliver, Trial
Evacuations and Evacuation schemes services
across the Kāinga Ora Complexes and Single
Houses. The facilities in which we will deliver our
services include both Social and Community
Group housing. Within this context our services
are a combination of site visits and desktop tasks.
Additional services include audits of existing
buildings for compliance with the FENZ Act with
regard to their Relevant Building status.
WSP supports Kāinga Ora to ensure their buildings
comply with the legislative obligations as the
building owner. (Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Act 2017 and Fire and Emergency New Zealand
(Fire Safety, Evacuation Procedures, and Evacuation
Schemes) Regulations 2018.
The success of this relationship is built on excellent
communication, both within our WSP Team and
with Kāinga Ora and their tenants. WSP focuses
on delivering quality services in partnership where
we are seen as a trusted advisor, as we add value
not only in our compliance services, but also in the
wider technical expertise.
Scope
6 monthly Trial Evacuations Evacuation Schemes
Review of existing or complete new Evacuation
Schemes, then lodge with Fire and Emergency
New Zealand (FENZ) for approval
Install Fire Action Notices to advise occupants
what to do and where to go in the event of a fire
Fire system audits on the Kāinga Ora contractor
for site suitability
Advise on buildings status to the FENZ
Regulations – known as “Relevant Buildings”
Advise client of current status of their fire egress
paths and the Building Warrant of Fitness.
Our People
Craig
Parker
Work Group Manager - Property Advisory - Wellington
New Zealand