Ms Sarah Neary:

Even before that, these sorts of relationships and situations arise in every construction project. That is nothing new. Assigned certifiers have not created that. The whole concept of an inspection plan is about planning when inspections are needed. If one is doing a concrete pour, the builder should notify the inspector that the concrete pour is happening next Wednesday. On the Monday and Tuesday, the inspector goes out and sees where things are and by Tuesday evening it should be ready. What has changed under SI 9 is that there is an orderly and planned way of constructing. That is what the system is empowering professionals to engage with. It is defining those roles. The code of practice is all about that relationship and integration between what the builder is doing on-site and when the assigned certifier needs to be there. The well-organised assigned certifiers will give first-hand experience of this. They have extensive spreadsheets of when things are happening on-site and when their inspections are going to happen.