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View April 2019 TRADE APRIL 2019 LEADER. Vocational Education Training: What’s the direction from here? THIS ISSUE n License Quantity The implications How to avoid Legal suspensions – surveying and and future of cashflow requirements it’s YOUR choice! the LBP scheme KiwiBuild mistakes of a clean site READING TRADE LEADER can contribute towards your LBP Skills Maintenance requirements. TRADE LEADER. CARTERS Trade Leader is produced by TLP Media Ltd 11 times a year in association with CARTERS. MANAGING EDITOR Scott Wilson P: 021 725061 In the frame E: [email protected] BY MIKE GUY, CARTERS CHIEF EXECUTIVE LAYOUT Kaz - Design. Brand. Web. In this month’s Trade Leader, we took It’s a worthwhile read to understand PRINTER a look at the proposed plans recently your responsibilities as a licensed Nicholson Print Solutions released by the Minister of Education building practitioner. ENQUIRIES Chris Hipkins. This month Stewart Germann Law has TLP Media Ltd, PO Box 21081 Big changes may be on the horizon for provided a legal article surrounding Hamilton 3256 New Zealand’s vocational education the risk you pose to the environment E: [email protected] sector, with the Government calling for on building sites with exposed soil input on a proposal to restructure how and clay and toxic materials such as ISSN 2463-3550 (Print) polytechnics, training organisations paint and cement being washed into ISSN 2463-3569 (Online) and trades training groups operate. It’s waterways. To ensure legal compliance TLP Media Ltd reserves the right to accept or reject a topic that has generated considerable always read the resource and building any editorial or advertising material. No part of feedback and will be interesting to see consent conditions pertaining to your CARTERS Trade Leader magazine may be published or reproduced without the express permission of the just how the trade sectors respond to site before starting a build. publisher. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed the proposals in front of them. in CARTERS Trade Leader are not necessarily those As always the safety of builders on of CARTERS or the publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the suggestions of the contributors or BCITO Chief Executive Warwick Quinn and off site is paramount to us here at conclusions that may be drawn from them. Although has, understandably, had plenty to say CARTERS and to the success of our the publisher has made every effort to ensure accuracy, the reader remains responsible for the on the topic and he has responded industry. There is a thought provoking correct selection of any tools, equipment, materials to the proposal in our fairly extensive article this month from Site Safe, or systems followed, as well as the following of any laws or codes that may apply. article. Whatever the outcome, we addressing the potential dangers of agree this is an important subject we carrying loose tools in moving trade can’t afford to get wrong. vehicles and how you can mitigate any harm by implementing some safe On the Licensed Building Practitioners APRIL 2019 guards. TRADE front, we have two articles in this OFFERS. issue, one relating to the relationships Thanks for reading this issue of Trade FREE STUFF! between quantity surveying and the Leader and for continuing to partner SWANNDRI RANGER LBP scheme, and the second around with CARTERS. XTREME WOOL SHIRT an issue that has continued to be raised – the suspension of building practitioners’ licenses. In many of our issues over the past when you spend $3500 (excl GST) or more on any couple of years, we have highlighted GIB® Performance * Plasterboard this month! *Via redemption. Offer excludes GIB® Plasterboard accessories, GIB® Rondo® and 10mm GIB® Standard. See overleaf for terms. Offer applies to cumulative some of the questionable practices that spend on GIB® Performance Plasterboard during April 2019. CARTERS TRADE ACCOUNT HOLDERS. have been going on within our industry, FREE STUFF exclusive to many of which have resulted in sanctions against LBPs. In this issue’s CHECK OUT OUR article, MBIE looks at the different APRIL types of license suspensions, why they MIKE GUY have happened and how to avoid them. TRADE OFFERS. 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PERFORMANCE THAT WORKS RAB Board not only has resistance to damage jameshardie.co.nz from moisture and fire, its also quick and easy to install and allows early close in. RBJH0001R RBJH0001 JHRAB BUILD Mag FP Builder Ad Rev.indd 1 20/11/18 10:35 am GOOD DESIGN IS OBVIOUS GREAT DESIGN IS TRANSPARENT 18. BUSINESS STRUCTURAL BRACING External wall bracing and structural connectivity 180 DAY EXPOSURE COMPLIANCE Withstand up to 180 days exposure without warping or shrinking BRANZ Appraised 15 year product warranty FIRE RESISTANT Non-combustible material EASY TO INSTALL Quick installation, gun nail and eliminate top plate strap 10. EDUCATION 24. LBP RESISTANT TO DAMAGE FROM MOISTURE Built-in water repellent barrier 6. INDUSTRY NEWS 18. BUSINESS 23. HEALTH & SAFETY Public consultation on building SEVEN TIPS TO BETTER CARGO BARRIERS - SAFETY SENSE legislation, workplace injury CASHFLOW Sometimes the biggest threat to prevent grants, Site Safe certificate Every trade business goes through people in a head-on crash is all programme, designing for access cashflow problems at some point. It’s the things that are behind them. In and usability, healthy home part of being in business. These top a collision between two vehicles, standards released. seven mistakes are the ones which unsecured tools and cargo can cause the most damage and stress. become painful, if not deadly, missiles in an accident. Construction safety training organisation Site Safe says 8. LICENSED BUILDING 20. LEGAL PRACTITIONERS putting a barrier between people and NOTIFIABLE EVENTS objects makes good sense. SUSPENSIONS If a “notifiable event” happens at your There are several types of licensed workplace, you are required to notify building practitioner (LBP) licensing Worksafe. But what is a notifiable 24. LICENSED BUILDING suspensions: voluntary, relicensing, or event, and what else do you need PRACTITIONERS disciplinary. This article looks at how to know from a legal perspective QUANTITY SURVEYING they all work. to ensure you are meeting your As an LBP, keeping up to date with requirements? Andrew Skinner looks the latest information is paramount to more closely at the information you running a successful business. This 10. EDUCATION should be aware of. article contains some tools and tricks Building a great home, one that’s built to last, RAB Board wont shrink or warp, so it results in TRADES TRAINING CHANGES for Small Medium sized Enterprise is the result of good building practice and the a flatter more professional finish. (SME) builders from a Quantity Wide ranging proposals to reform 21. LEGAL very best building products. Products that are So to build a home that will stand the test of New Zealand’s Vocational Education Surveying perspective. CLEAN BUILDING SITES Training system (VET) have been specifically designed to perform at a higher level time build with RAB Board from James Hardie Building sites pose a risk to the to traditional building paper. roundly rejected by the building and environment as everything that enters 28. ECONOMICS PERFORMANCE THAT WORKS construction sector following a sector a drain from a building site goes KIWIBUILD UPS AND DOWNS RAB Board not only has resistance to damage summit in Auckland recently. jameshardie.co.nz straight into waterways. Builders can Slow progress with KiwiBuild has from moisture and fire, its also quick and easy be subject to fines of $750.00 if they meant the targets of 1,000 completions to install and allows early close in. do not manage the main risks and, in in the 2018/19 June year and 5,000 in extreme cases, $750.00 per day if the 2019/20 have been dropped, although events continue. the target of 100,000 new homes over RBJH0001R 10 years remains. RBJH0001 JHRAB BUILD Mag FP Builder Ad Rev.indd 1 20/11/18 10:35 am 5 INDUSTRY NEWS Healthy homes Public standards released NEW HEALTHY HOMES STANDARDS, ANNOUNCED RECENTLY BY consultation: HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT MINISTER PHIL TWYFORD, overhaul AIM TO MAKE RENTAL PROPERTIES WARMER AND DRIER. The standards set minimum ground moisture barrier to stop for building requirements for heating, insulation, moisture rising into the home ventilation, moisture and drainage, • The standards also reinforce legislation and draught stopping in residential existing law that says landlords rental properties. They reflect must have adequate drainage feedback from a wide range of AFTER DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN and guttering to prevent water public health experts, stakeholders GOVERNMENT AND THE entering the home. including landlords, tenants and BUILDING SECTOR IN 2018, • Draughts that make a home building experts. LEGISLATION CHANGES harder to heat will have to be THAT ARE SET TO IMPROVE The new standards are designed to blocked. PERFORMANCE OF THE help make rental homes healthier for Compliance timeline for the new BUILDING SECTOR HAVE BEEN tenants and state that: standards: IDENTIFIED, AND YOU CAN • All rental homes will be required • 1 July 2021 – From this date, HAVE YOUR SAY ON THESE to have a heater that can heat the private landlords must ensure that o CHANGES.
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