Can we fix the broken building industry?
We can build houses faster and cheaper with new design techniques like prefabrication, so why is regulation still getting in the way?
We can build houses faster and cheaper with new design techniques like prefabrication, so why is regulation still getting in the way?
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I'm building a house in Wellington and it took about three months to get consent. The Council acknowledged receipt of my application, then there was absolute silence until day 20, when they suddenly came up with a whole lot of RFIs.
Asking for RFIs allows them to re-set the clock and start the 20 days again...
My Architect was great and responded to all of them the same day, then there was silence again for another three weeks until day 20, then some more RFIs came through, again re-setting the clock...
All the RFIs were tiny, inconsequential things.
So frustrating and caused weeks of unnecessary delay. Plus I paid waaaay more than the $2923 mentioned in the article!