Building compliance
We can carry your entire compliance schedule — every specified system from SS1 to SS16, our trades and our subcontractors, on one contract and one invoice.
- Scope
- Full Building Warrant of Fitness management
- Every specified system, SS1 to SS16
- IQP inspections
- Owner's checks and record keeping
- Subcontractors held and carried on our invoice
- Whole-building pricing from drawings, plans or a site visit
- Multi-site portfolios under one account manager
The warrant is an assembly job
A Building Warrant of Fitness is not a single inspection. It is a folder assembled from every specified system in the building, each certified by somebody qualified to certify that system, all of it complete before a date you did not choose.
The fire systems are usually the largest part of that folder. They are rarely the part that goes wrong. What goes wrong is the lift contractor who has not been back, the air conditioning report that never arrived, and the fact that nobody was holding the calendar.
We can take the whole schedule
Not just the fire systems. Between our own trades and the subcontractors we work with closely, we can cover every specified system from SS1 to SS16 — lifts, air conditioning, backflow, automatic doors, fume cupboards, the lot.
You do not manage that. We hold the subcontractors, we hold the schedule, and they come to you on our invoice. One contract, one bill, one person to call, whatever the system and whoever is holding the tools. That is the model Bay of Plenty Regional Council runs across three offices in three districts.
If you would rather keep your existing contractors, that is fine too — we will do the fire requirements and your owner’s checks, then chase the rest, collect their reports, and assemble the warrant from the complete set.
Send us the drawings
We hold current pricing across every trade on the schedule, which means we can usually price a whole building from a set of drawings or plans — or from one site visit if the documentation has gone missing, which it often has.
No obligation, and no lock-in period if you proceed.
Failure is not a paperwork problem
Failing to comply is an offence under the Building Act 2004, and the maximum penalties are considerably higher than the figure most of the industry still quotes. We have set out the current numbers, with the section references, because being wrong about this is the kind of thing a building owner deserves not to discover from a council letter.
Multi-site portfolios
If you hold buildings across several districts, each one has its own compliance schedule, its own anniversary and its own territorial authority. We manage portfolios on exactly that basis, with one assigned account manager who is the only number you need — whatever the issue and whichever trade it belongs to.
Common questions
Who actually issues the Building Warrant of Fitness?
The owner does. The council issues the compliance schedule; an IQP issues the Form 12A certificate for each specified system; the owner signs the Form 12 and supplies it to the territorial authority. Most people believe the council issues it, and that misunderstanding is how deadlines get missed.
When is our warrant due?
On the anniversary of the date your compliance schedule was originally issued — not the calendar year, and not the anniversary of your last warrant. Amending a compliance schedule part-way through a year does not move that date.
We use different contractors for lifts and air conditioning. Is that a problem?
Only in that somebody has to collect all of their certificates before your anniversary, and chase the ones that are late. We will do that, and we can carry those contractors on our invoice so you pay once.