Commercial building owner responsibilities

Commercial, industrial, and communal (public use) buildings may have additional requirements to the above to meet code compliance.

This depends on whether the building includes specified systems (eg safety and essential systems including sprinklers, fire alarms, escalators, etc).

Building owners are responsible for the ongoing compliance of their building to ensure the safety of everyone who enters, occupies, or works in it.

What to include if your building has specified systems

In addition to your code compliance certificate application, you’ll need to provide:

  • Evidence that the specified systems can perform to the performance standards in your building consent
  • The installer’s certificate and producer statement.

Before we issue your code compliance certificate, you’ll be given:

  • A compliance schedule
  • A compliance schedule statement for the specified systems.

See building consent granted and compliance schedules for more information.

Older building consents without a code compliance certificate

If you haven’t applied for a code compliance certificate within five years of your building consent being granted this could affect whether we can issue a CCC.

If this applies to you, please contact the Building team.