Our strategic direction
The Department has an important role to play in working with the building and housing sector to lift standards and performance.
We must also look ahead and consider how our buildings and built environment can better meet New Zealanders’ needs now and in the future, and how to best respond to changing building technologies and systems, and changing housing needs.
We are committed to making an effective contribution to the Government’s overall priorities through:
- working with the building and housing sector and local government to implement reforms to improve building quality and performance and lift skill levels
- helping to ensure the people of New Zealand have access to quality housing and buildings that meet their needs
- ensuring the regulatory frameworks that apply to building and housing are relevant, balanced and effective, deliver quality and support innovation at reasonable cost
- lifting consumers’ and users’ awareness and understanding of building and housing standards and performance to enable them to make informed decisions and to buy with confidence
- providing access to quality dispute resolution services so social and economic costs of disputes are reduced
- investing in developing our knowledge and understanding of sector trends, performance, and changing building technology and systems.
The Department’s Outcome Framework on page 13 of our Statement of Intent 2006/09 depicts the connections between our capability initiatives, outputs and key strategies to deliver on intermediate outcomes, our overall outcome, and the Government’s priorities.
Achieving our outcomes
All of our activities contribute toward our primary goal (the outcome we seek to achieve) that:
The people of New Zealand have access to quality homes and buildings that meet their needs and reflect our New Zealand environment.
We have identified four intermediate outcomes required in order to achieve this overall outcome. Those intermediate outcomes are as follows.
- Buildings and homes that perform well in the New Zealand environment.
- A vibrant building, construction and housing sector with skilled building and housing professionals.
- Homes and buildings that meet the changing needs of New Zealanders.
- Confident owners, tenants and users.
Our contribution to these intermediate outcomes is directed through six strategies. Each of these strategies requires us to work closely with others, including other government and non-government bodies, local government, industry stakeholders and consumers.
Read more about the Department's strategies on page 14 of our Statement of Intent 2006/2009.
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