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John Tookey: AUT Construction Management Professor on the government's crackdown on shoddy builders · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: All right, we've got a slew of new government changes
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  Speaker 1: which will hold cowboy builders more responsible for poor quality work.
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  Speaker 1: Minister Chris Pink hopes that strengthening the Licensed Building Practices
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  Speaker 1: Registrar will ease concerned about plans so let builders self certify.
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  Speaker 1: So John Tucky is a professor at the Auckard University
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  Speaker 1: of Technology. He specializes in construction management. He's got up
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  Speaker 1: early for us.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, John morning.
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  Speaker 1: This is an international problem that has been discussed for years.
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  Speaker 1: Why hasn't it been sorted out before?
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  Speaker 2: Because in times when the cost of building goes up,
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  Speaker 2: then it just becomes very convenient to go for a
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  Speaker 2: chief option. And that chief option is usually somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: not going to necessarily do all the detail work that
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  Speaker 2: you need. And it looks shaddy accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's have a look at yesterday's announcement and
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  Speaker 1: remember we're kind of first in the world and this
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing. Is it a step in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction or is it window dressing?
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  Speaker 2: No, just step in the right direction. I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go down the road of self certification
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  Speaker 2: for building works, which is perfectly reasonable, it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we we assume a car is built correctly as
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  Speaker 2: a for instance, you know we don't get a certification
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  Speaker 2: an individual.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we need to get a builder in to
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  Speaker 1: fix up your phone, and John has fallen off, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll leave this at some point.
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