Building Product Information Regulation (BPIR): Changes to the New Zealand Building Regulations

Why are the NZ Building Regulations changing?

These changes aim to provide essential information to users of building products, helping them assess compliance with the New Zealand Building Code (NZBC).

The new regulations streamline building consent processes and provide your customers with comparative product information. Manufacturers, importers, retailers, and distributors of designated building products are all subject to these new obligations.

What do the new NZ Building Regulations mean?

The change requires that manufacturers and importers of building products in New Zealand must make specific information about their products publicly available, ideally online and in a user-friendly format.

This information should cover details like the product's intended use, product identifier, manufacturer's details, building code compliance, installation requirements, and any associated warnings or bans.

Do the changes affect you?

Manufacturers and importers must comply by providing and maintaining the required product information, while distributors and retailers must ensure this information is available to customers at the point of sale.

The goal is to enhance decision-making in building projects, reduce consent delays, and improve the overall quality and efficiency of construction work.

How we're solving this for you

We have created Jacobsen Product Information Declaration (JPID) sheets for all our product ranges. These sheets are designed to help our customers make the right product choice for their project will all the information you need to be compliant.

We've spent time with the council working through this regulation change to ensure the information is easy for the council to review during the consent process.

Jacobsen Product Information Declarations are available for all products on our website. Navigate to the product you need a declaration for; you'll see a "Download Declaration" next to the product swatch image. See an example on the Traffic 250 page.

How to implement it in your business

All businesses that sell Jacobsen products will need to have a URL or QR code available at their point of sale.

For Designers and Architects

Download the Jacobsen Product Information Declaration from our website or copy the product link and include it in your paperwork for your client.

For Retailers

You will need to have a URL or QR code on, or close to, your samples and in-store displays. This will take you to the website to access the JPID.

For products that are already in the market without a QR code, we will send out a quick reference book with all our URLs and QR codes to make it as easy as possible for you to implement this change and be compliant with this new regulation. Going forward, all Jacobsen samples and swatch books will have QR codes on them.