Key content this month
- COVID-19 vaccination policy update
- MATES in Construction partnership extended
- Accessibility Symposium
- Building Momentum events and webinars
- Noggin upgrade
- Infrastructure Acceleration Fund update
As you may already be aware, we have recently updated our vaccination policy, removing the requirement for people entering Kāinga Ora owned or controlled sites or offices to be double vaccinated. Going forward, vaccination will only be required when it is mandated via a third party. This decision has been made based on the latest data available on transmission rates, among other considerations. The vaccination clause won’t appear in future public housing build contracts and consultancy agreements. While the wording remains in our current contracts, it will no longer be valid.
While vaccination is no longer required at Kāinga Ora, we must remain vigilant in our response to the pandemic and continue to follow Ministry of Health guidance. We will review our risk assessment if the country’s response to COVID-19 changes significantly and will continue to keep you informed if we are considering any potential changes to the vaccination policy. Thank you for your responsiveness and willingness to adapt to our policy, as well as traffic light setting changes, while continuing to help us deliver more warm and dry homes for New Zealanders.
MATES in Construction partnership extended
We are pleased to have re-cemented our partnership with the MATES in Construction suicide prevention programme for another two years.
The new agreement is a recognition of the commitment by Kāinga Ora to improve mental wellness in the construction industry and the significant support for MATES by our build partners and sub-contractors. The agreement will also see the MATES programme expanded to include our Construction Consultancy Partners when the Kāinga Ora supplier panels are confirmed later this year.
Kāinga Ora Housing Accessibility Symposium 2022
On 5 July 2022 (9.30am – 12.30pm), Kāinga Ora will host a virtual Housing Accessibility Symposium. This year the focus of our Housing Accessibility Symposium will be centred around the review and refresh of the current Kāinga Ora Accessibility Policy. This event is expected to provide an opportunity for our partners, customers and stakeholders from across government, and the disability sector, to discuss the next iteration of our Kāinga Ora Accessibility Policy. We would greatly appreciate contributions and insights from our construction sector partners in this important discussion.
If you would like to attend, please email: accessibility@kaingaora.govt.nz with the names and email addresses of those interested and we will reply with registration details.
To learn more about accessibility at Kāinga Ora, and our current accessibility commitments and work programmes, please visit: Accessibility at Kāinga Ora :: Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities (kaingaora.govt.nz).
Kāinga Ora is also producing a succinct guidance document entitled Masterplanning for Universal Design to sit in the suite of existing Kāinga Ora design guidelines. This will help us to design and deliver inclusive homes and communities. The document will be easy to understand while firmly based on best practice and with references to appropriate details, standards and legislation. Crucially, the document will set out how to measure how inclusive an environment is. It will be publicly available to inform national best practice, and is expected to be completed later this year.
Building Momentum events update
Regional in-person event
Many of you will have heard about our Bader Ventura development in Mangere, part of the large-scale Mangere Development in South Auckland. Due for completion in mid-2023, these Kāinga Ora homes will be the first built to Passive House standard and demonstrate our commitment to helping lead the industry’s response to climate change.
We’re pleased to invite you to join us on 5 July 2022, from 1.45pm – 4.45pm at the Māngere Arts Centre for a deep dive into Bader Ventura at our Low Carbon and Passive House event. The event will focus on our Bader Ventura Passive House journey with an exciting line up of presentations from our key project partners and the Kāinga Ora project team.
This event is long-awaited due to Covid-19 delays and we anticipate a high level of interest. Be sure to register your attendance early as places are limited: Kāinga Ora Building Momentum | Auckland Registration, Tue 05/07/2022 at 1:30 pm | Eventbrite
Webinar series
With Bader Ventura the subject of keen interest from across the sector, we recently chose to make it the topic of our first episode in the Building Momentum webinar series. Thank you to everyone who joined us for an info-packed hour of insights with two of our key project partners, Rob Moule from Precision Construction and Manuel Diaz from Peddlethorp. You can view the webinar recording here and sign up for series updates by emailing: buildingmomentum@kaingaora.govt.nz.
Kāinga Ora large-scale projects hit milestone
More than 4,000 homes have now been enabled by Kāinga Ora land development activity in the Auckland Large Scale Projects across Mangere, Mt Roskill, Oranga, Northcote and Tamaki.
‘Homes enabled’ is the way we measure the civil construction activity undertaken by our Urban Development and Delivery group to prepare the land for the construction of state, affordable and market homes. This work includes house removal, land remediation and infrastructure upgrades, and as of May 2022 we have now enabled land to support more than 4,000 homes since our large-scale projects began. This extensive civil construction work is a critical part of preparing superlots for sale to our development partners, and detail of the latest release of superlots is included in this bulletin.
Oranga superlot release
Development partners on the Kāinga Ora Invitation to Participate (ITP) list will soon have the opportunity to purchase land in Stage 4 of our Oranga Development. Expected to be released in late July 2022, the offer is for six superlots comprising a total area of 1.7ha and supporting a yield of approximately 93 homes. 40% of the homes are to be built to KiwiBuild/affordable housing requirements. Questions relating to this release can be emailed to landsales.UDD@kaingaora.govt.nz.
Six superlots are soon to be released for sale in Oranga Development
Largest Kāinga Ora development for Linwood, Christchurch
Around 34 new homes are likely to be built in Linwood’s Jollie Street over the coming years, making it the largest Kāinga Ora development in the area to date. The homes will replace 12 older state homes and will range in size from one to five-bedrooms, catering for a variety of family sizes and needs. Resource consents have been lodged, and further along the street five new homes are already under construction, with completion expected during late winter.
Our largest development in the area to date, 34 new homes are due to be built in Jollie Street, Linwood.
Noggin upgrade
Please be advised that as of Wednesday 1 June 2022, Kāinga Ora health and safety incident management (Noggin OCA) has been upgraded, and we have moved to Noggin 2.
What is Noggin?
Noggin is Kāinga Ora health and safety incident management system, which we use to record and report on near-misses, hazards and physical injuries in the work place. The new Noggin 2 system is much easier to use, modern and accessible from all work devices.
For further information about the upgrade please check out our Introduction video.
How to do I find out more?
The Noggin 2 project team will set up and issue your logins. Please advise the individuals’ names and correct email addresses for the project team to set up access. If you have any issues with Noggin, or questions about the update, please contact your Contract Manager or Health and Safety Advisor.
Infrastructure Acceleration Fund update
A wide range of proposals for much-needed housing developments around the country are through to the final stage of the bid for funding from the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF).
The $1 billion contestable fund is designed to help councils fund infrastructure to enable housing development in areas of need. The IAF has received great interest from councils, iwi and developers across Aotearoa.
Following a robust evaluation process, 35 proposals have now been invited to progress to the final negotiation stage. This stage will see further due diligence undertaken and both funding and housing outcome agreements negotiated before funding can be confirmed.
Early indications from the proposals suggest up to 35,000 dwellings could be enabled through the IAF, with approximately 60 percent of proposals for development outside of New Zealand’s main urban centres. We look forward to announcing successful agreements from July onwards.
Kāinga Ora commits to Sustainable Transport Outcomes
Kāinga Ora is demonstrating its leadership approach to sustainability and wellbeing outcomes with its new Sustainable Transport Outcomes (STO). This document sets out clear strategic outcomes for transport within Kāinga Ora developments and communities, with a firm focus on ensuring that active and public transport modes are truly viable for everyone.
Civils works completed in Mangere West project
Civils works on the Mangere West A project – stage 1 (west side of Tararata Creek), which forms part of the wider Mangere Development large-scale project, were completed in May 2022. The development team recently celebrated this milestone with lead civils contractor Kerry Dines and lead consultant/engineers Candor3 to acknowledge the four-year journey and mahi done to-date. Kerry Dines was appointed to undertake this body of work prior to the establishment of the Auckland civils alliance Piritahi.
