Specified systems are systems or features in the building that contribute to the proper functioning of the building. These systems help to ensure that a building is safe and healthy for people to enter, occupy or work in.
The Compliance Schedule lists the building's specified systems and the inspection, maintenance and reporting procedures needed to keep the specified systems in good order.
Applications for a building consent need to contain Compliance Schedule information for:
- a new building with any specified systems
- building work in an existing building that includes modifying or adding to the specified systems. This requires an amendment to an existing compliance schedule.
All commercial, industrial and multi-unit residential buildings will include specified systems and a Compliance Schedule must be lodged with your application for a building consent. The only residential applications for a building consent that require a Compliance Schedule are those that include the installation of a cable car.
| SS 1 | Automatic systems for fire suppression |
| SS 2 | Automatic or manual emergency warning systems for fire or other dangers |
| SS 3/1 | Automatic doors |
| SS 3/2 | Access controlled doors |
| SS 3/3 | Interfaced fire or smoke doors or windows |
| SS 4 | Emergency lighting systems |
| SS 5 | Escape route pressurisation systems |
| SS 6 | Riser mains |
| SS 7 | Automatic back-flow preventers connected to a potable water supply |
| SS 8/1 | Passenger carrying lifts |
| SS 8/2 | Platform, low-speed and service lifts |
| SS 8/3 | Escalators and moving walks |
| SS 9 | Mechanical ventilation or air conditioning systems |
| SS 10 | Building maintenance units |
| SS 11 | Laboratory fume cupboards |
| SS 12/1 | Audio loops |
| SS 12/2 | FM radio frequency systems and infra-red beam transmission systems |
| SS 13/1 | Mechanical smoke control |
| SS 13/2 | Natural smoke control |
| SS 13/3 | Smoke curtains |
| SS 14/1 | Emergency power systems |
| SS 14/2 | Signs relating to a system or feature specified in any of clauses 1 to 13 |
| SS 15/1 | Systems for communicating spoken information intended to facilitate evacuation |
| SS 15/2 | Final exits |
| SS 15/3 | Fire separations |
| SS 15/4 | Signs for communicating information intended to facilitate evacuation |
| SS 15/5 | Smoke separations |
| SS 16 | Cable cars |
If your proposed building work includes any specified systems, please complete our Compliance Schedule Identifier form. Once the form has been completed and checked, please upload the form to Objective Build along with your other documents supporting your application for a building consent.
More information
- For information about Compliance schedules please refer to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) guidance
- MBIE Compliance Schedule Handbook
- We recommend that you review the MBIE exemplar Compliance Schedule
Compliance Schedule and Building Warrant of Fitness (BWoF)
The Compliance Schedule will become the basis for the Annual BWoF inspection and certification process once the building has been issued with a Code Compliance Certificate.