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Speaker 1: So as part of its housing push, the government plan

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Speaker 1: to make councils do building inspections remotely has come about.

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Speaker 1: Chris Penk says, the building protest it takes too long

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Speaker 1: and this will make it easier and cheaper, and so

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Speaker 1: will it. We've got the director of construction at David

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Speaker 1: Reid Holmes Cantery, Carl four days with me on the program.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to your Carl, Morning injury.

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Speaker 2: How are you very good.

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Speaker 1: Remote building inspections? Are they efficient?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, remote building inspections have been tested forwards in

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Speaker 2: the COVID times that was tested on site with certain

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Speaker 2: inspections and it did save time and that I think

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Speaker 2: the good thing is that we are looking at speeding

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Speaker 2: up the building process for us. It's a look at

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Speaker 2: the consenting process and resource management would be where we

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Speaker 2: can really save some time and costs.

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Speaker 1: Yes exactly. I mean we've had enough leaky homes, We've

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Speaker 1: had enough leaky apartment buildings to go well, you know

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Speaker 1: on the plan these look good. It was actually doing

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Speaker 1: the inspection that did not find the flaws It might

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Speaker 1: be in that building, you know. So can we keep

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Speaker 1: up our standards if the inspections are done remotely because

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Speaker 1: it's fair to say we're not giving up the standards

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Speaker 1: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say every process has its pros and cons.

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Speaker 2: The inspections remotely would take a lot of time to

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Speaker 2: go through and the inspector would be required to know

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Speaker 2: exactly what he's looking at for that inspection process. Another

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Speaker 2: way that's been done throughout the UK and Europe is

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Speaker 2: they actually accredit the builders or the engineers designers and

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Speaker 2: they are accredited to the local council being able to

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Speaker 2: sign off on their own work.

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Speaker 1: And that's to find the cowboys and the dodgers exactly exactly.

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Speaker 2: It soon sifts them out, and you know, the ones

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Speaker 2: that continually try to cut corners, they don't be around

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Speaker 2: for too long.

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Speaker 1: So you would insist to Chris Pink that really he

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Speaker 1: needs to include that in the legislation when it's drafted

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Speaker 1: up and when all the rules and regulations are presented.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'd be good if Chris came and

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Speaker 2: met US residential and commercial builders and actually went through

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Speaker 2: the processes. You know your master build federations, etc. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of knowledge in these federations that people could

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Speaker 2: really contribute to the whole system. Where it works for

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Speaker 2: everybody in residential and commercial good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Cayle four dayes, I thank you for your time. Here

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Speaker 1: is the director of construction at David Reid Holmes in Canterbury,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's going through a tough time, but

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