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Speaker 1: The government's making it easier to import a bigger range

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Speaker 1: of building products. It is fifty percent more expensive to

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Speaker 1: build a standalone home in New Zealand than it is

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Speaker 1: in Australia. Now Minister Chris Pink he's introduced legislation that

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Speaker 1: will open up the market in theory and bring in

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Speaker 1: more competition. But should we be worried about faulty products

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Speaker 1: being led in leaky building et cetera. Building Industry Federation

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Speaker 1: Chief executive Julian Lasers with me this morning. Julian, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning Ryan. What products do we need a better

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Speaker 1: range of?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting, I think was what the government has

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Speaker 2: identified is they can look for equal or of equivalent

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Speaker 2: standards where there are costs or concentrations in construction. So

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Speaker 2: they're looking for products such as internal linings, external claddings, windows,

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Speaker 2: plumbing products and insubation and because that's where often some

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Speaker 2: of the you know, the biggest costs are and that

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Speaker 2: they're going to focus on those things. And for example,

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Speaker 2: water which is an Australian certification has I think two

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand products that are certified that meet our building code.

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Speaker 2: Those sorts of things will be you know, able to

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Speaker 2: be brought into the market and provide much more choice,

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Speaker 2: and there should be little risk of not betting our

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Speaker 2: building code.

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Speaker 1: Right, So if it's good enough for the Aussies, it's

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Speaker 1: good enough for us. When you say little risk of

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Speaker 1: not meeting our building code, is there a chance that

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Speaker 1: these products might perform differently here than over there?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a great question, because of course it's not.

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Speaker 2: You know, products are never just they never just act

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Speaker 2: in isolation in a building that we know, building systems

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Speaker 2: based on the performance of many different criterias. If you

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Speaker 2: take a wall, you know that's made up of a

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Speaker 2: frame and trust insulation plus the board of ventilation, all

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Speaker 2: that sort of thing. Yeah, I think I think that

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Speaker 2: there was always in the detail our it be as

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Speaker 2: I record, it is going to have to be very

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Speaker 2: clear in what those standards are, and so I think

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Speaker 2: will only peck standards and products specifically from those of

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Speaker 2: trusted overseas jurisdictions that are as close to our kinds

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Speaker 2: as possible. That's the only way they can avoid any trouble.

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Speaker 1: Julian, is this going to shift the dial in terms

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Speaker 1: of how much a cost to build a home in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand? Standalone home being fifty percent more expensive to

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Speaker 1: build here than Australia. Is it going to shift the dial?

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Speaker 2: I don't look, I think it's going to shift the dial.

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Speaker 2: Building materials may for about twenty percent of the cost

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Speaker 2: of a house overall. I think it will certainly reduce

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Speaker 2: some cost and bring those costs down over time, which

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Speaker 2: is what we're all aiming for. You know, anything's better

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Speaker 2: than nothing, right, so if we can get more choice

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Speaker 2: and more competition, that that's going to be good.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time this morning, Julian Lays, Building Industry

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Speaker 1: Federation chief executive.

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