The Closeout · New Zealand
For New Zealand main contractors on projects between $10m and $30m. Holland Mazo compiles the client completion manual and drives the Code Compliance Certificate through to issue, on one fee set at execution of the head contract and held for the life of the project.
Your project team finishes the build. Holland Mazo builds the manual. Neither one holds up Practical Completion.
Fee
Banded by contract sum, so you can price it at tender.
Over $10m to $15m
Over $15m to $20m
Over $20m to $25m
Over $25m to $30m
Over $30m
The contract sum includes provisional and prime cost sums. This schedule applies to head contracts executed on or before 31 December 2027. Once set, the fee holds for the duration of the project, however long it runs.
No GST is charged.
Scope
What the completion manual contains.
Compiled, chased and finalised as a single client document, issued with its underlying folder structure, in your typography, logos and brand standards.
PS3s and PS4s
Consultant observations
As-builts
Records of Building Work
Certificates of compliance
Warranties and guarantees
O&M manuals
Contact register
And the certificate itself
Preparation, lodgement and management of the CCC application through to issue, including responses to Council RFIs. Where the building consent was applied for in stages, the CCC for every stage of that building is included in the fee.
If information is slow
The fee covers the work, not the calendar.
Holland Mazo pursues every required item and keeps a live register of what is outstanding, visible to you throughout. An information return timetable and an escalation protocol are agreed at commencement.
Should information be slow to arrive, the work continues until the manual is complete and the CCC is issued, at no additional cost. Slow responses affect the programme, not the fee.
Not included
What sits outside the fee.
Council lodgement and inspection fees, and consultant fees for issuing PS4s
Consent amendments and minor variations
Rectification of defects and any resulting re-inspections
Additional buildings or dwellings, quoted individually
Issue of the CCC is at the discretion of the territorial authority. Approvals from consultants, network utility operators and territorial authorities sit outside Holland Mazo’s control as to timeframe and outcome.
Common questions
The owner applies, but in practice the main contractor holds the paperwork and the trade relationships, so the work of assembling the application almost always falls to the builder.
Under section 93 of the Building Act 2004, if no application is made within two years of the consent being granted, the building consent authority must decide whether to issue the certificate on the information it holds. That clock runs from the grant of consent, not from practical completion.
Past five years, Auckland treats the application as historic and requires form AC2122 to modify Clause B2.3.1, so durability runs from the agreed date of substantial completion rather than the date the CCC is issued.
Where to start
Set the fee at contract execution.
Send through the contract sum and the consent structure, and you will have a fixed figure to carry in your tender. Start a conversation.