Auckland Council is cutting back on red tape approving many substituted building products on site to help get the industry through a plasterboard supply crisis.
It's also loaning out its building inspectors to other regions to help them speed things up too. Fletcher Building's GIB board dominates about 95 percent of the market, but demand is out outstripping supply and its having to ration GIB, leaving some houses unfinished and some builders struggling to stay afloat.
This week regulators and industry leaders met to come up with solutions.
Auckland Council's already changed how it does things, cutting paper work needed to substitute GIB for a generic plasterboard instead.
Jeff Farenshon from its regulatory services team explains how his council's helping ease the plasterboard crisis.
