Enhancing Performance-Based Regulation: Lessons from New Zealand's Building Control System

3 Acknowledgements 5 Table of contents 7 List of figures 12 List of tables 12 Glossary of abbreviations 13 Chapter 1: The context for the research question 15 Introduction 15 The leaky-building crisis 16 Changes in the building environment 17 Changes to the regulatory environment 20 Performance-based regulation a general phenomena 22 Description of the Building Act 1991 26 Performance of the Building Act 1991 29 2004 building reforms 31 The case‘ that is being examined 35 Chapter 2: Methodology 37 Research question 37 Methodological heuristics 39 Explaining failure 43 Literature review 45 Data gathering 46 Data ordering 47