Carl Fordyce: David Reid Homes Canterbury Director of Construction on remote building inspections speeding up the building process

A Canterbury construction boss says remote building inspections is one of several tools that could speed up the building process.  

The Government says the current in-person inspections mean long delays as builders stop work while they wait for an available appointment.  

David Reid Homes Canterbury Director of Construction, Carl Fordyce told Andrew Dickens remote inspections sped things up during Covid-times.  

But, he says, a look at the consenting and resource management processes is where both time and cost could be saved. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So as part of its housing push, the government plan
to make councils do building inspections remotely has come about.
Chris Penk says, the building protest it takes too long
and this will make it easier and cheaper, and so
will it. We've got the director of construction at David
Reid Holmes Cantery, Carl four days with me on the program.
Good morning to your Carl, Morning injury.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
How are you very good.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Remote building inspections? Are they efficient?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah? Well, remote building inspections have been tested forwards in
the COVID times that was tested on site with certain
inspections and it did save time and that I think
the good thing is that we are looking at speeding
up the building process for us. It's a look at

(00:47):
the consenting process and resource management would be where we
can really save some time and costs.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yes exactly. I mean we've had enough leaky homes, We've
had enough leaky apartment buildings to go well, you know
on the plan these look good. It was actually doing
the inspection that did not find the flaws It might
be in that building, you know. So can we keep
up our standards if the inspections are done remotely because
it's fair to say we're not giving up the standards
at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I'd say every process has its pros and cons.
The inspections remotely would take a lot of time to
go through and the inspector would be required to know
exactly what he's looking at for that inspection process. Another
way that's been done throughout the UK and Europe is

(01:38):
they actually accredit the builders or the engineers designers and
they are accredited to the local council being able to
sign off on their own work.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
And that's to find the cowboys and the dodgers exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It soon sifts them out, and you know, the ones
that continually try to cut corners, they don't be around
for too long.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
So you would insist to Chris Pink that really he
needs to include that in the legislation when it's drafted
up and when all the rules and regulations are presented.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I think it'd be good if Chris came and
met US residential and commercial builders and actually went through
the processes. You know your master build federations, etc. There's
a lot of knowledge in these federations that people could
really contribute to the whole system. Where it works for

(02:32):
everybody in residential and commercial good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Cayle four dayes, I thank you for your time. Here
is the director of construction at David Reid Holmes in Canterbury,
and I'm sure he's going through a tough time, but
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