Stages in a Building Project

Designing and Planning:

1. Deciding to do something

2. Setting a budget

3. Finding and briefing a designer

4. Finding a builder

5. If you are managing the building project yourself, then arranging subcontractors and preparing the Health and Safety Plan

6. Getting tenders and quotes

7. Revising the budget and/or project scope

8. Applying for Building and Resource Consents (and PIM if one not already received, if required)

9. Selecting the builder and subcontractors

Construction Starts:

1. Monitoring progress and work

2. Making progress payments – perhaps as milestone payments or monthly payments; note that funds can be retained until work completed is done to a satisfactory level

3. Negotiating and/or approving variations to structure or materials

4. Building inspections by the Building Consent Authority (BCA) inspectors

5. Final stages: completion and final inspections for the Code Compliance Certificate

6. Retentions and remedial work

7. Final payment

8. Dealing with problems when things go wrong

9. Landscape

Note: These steps may happen concurrently or in a slightly different order.