BC Update: No.42 - Find the information you need faster and easier at www.dbh.govt.nz

14 August 2006: On 10 August the Department of Building and Housing launched its new website.

The new website is designed to make it faster and easier for you to find information about building, renovating, maintaining a property and renting. The website includes:

• legislation
• guidance information, including electronic versions of our print publications
• building and housing sector news and statistics
• consultation documents
• tools and resources.

The site has been developed according to online best practice to be user-friendly and accessible for a wide range of users, including people with disabilities, and people accessing the site using a range of browsers, personal digital assistants, and assistive technologies.

Check out even more information than before

The new website includes all the information and resources you are used to accessing from our previous website, and the Building Act 2004 site.

Existing information has also been expanded, and includes building and tenancy A to Z glossaries and answers to frequently asked questions.

Make the links

Our new website has more links to other websites that provide information about building and housing. So, if we can’t help you we’ll help you find the agency that can.

Please update your links and ‘bookmarked’ pages

If you have bookmarked pages from our previous website in your web browser, or if your organisation’s website has links to our previous site, in most instances you will be redirected automatically to the equivalent page within our new site. If this does not occur, you will need to locate and bookmark the new page.

If you need help finding the information you are used to accessing on our previous website, please email webmaster@dbh.govt.nz.

Visit www.dbh.govt.nz today!