Datascape Building Consents is an end-to-end building consent software solution that allows applicants, sector professionals, communities, and councils to manage their building consents all in one place.
Manage processing workloads, engage stakeholders effectively, ensure timely and consistent processes, and comply with regulations for your council's building consents process — all with a single, comprehensive solution.
Datascape Building Consents can be used as a standalone, end-to-end consenting solution or part of a comprehensive regulatory offering. It can be integrated seamlessly with your essential council systems, to boost operational efficiency and enhance compliance.
We provide functionality to manage requests for resource consent, animal registrations, alcohol licensing, food, health and trade requirements and more. Platform capability is tailored to the unique requirements of each category, ensuring efficient and compliant handling of all applications and processes.
Datascape Building Consents is a digital building consent management platform designed specifically for local government to streamline the building consents and compliance process end to end, including application, vetting, processing, issuing, and inspection.
Efficiency: Datascape Building Consents makes building consent processing more efficient by reducing turnaround time, giving you real-time visibility of progress and providing workflow-driven processing – all helping you complete projects within statutory timeframes.
Collaboration: by providing reporting dashboards and progress updates, this solution fosters open collaboration and communication between property owners, architects, designers, builders and council staff.
Regulatory compliance: Datascape’s automated workflows assist in maintaining compliance with regulations, and Datascape gives you the ability to produce statutory reporting, helping you reduce the risk of errors or delays, and maintain end-to-end accountability and control.
Yes, Datascape Building Consents is developed to comply with New Zealand's building regulations and requirements, helping councils manage building consents in accordance with local legislation.
Datascape Building Consents ERP is designed to integrate seamlessly with your council's existing systems. Our dedicated team will collaborate with your IT department to understand your council's broader ecosystem, requirements and objectives, giving you a smooth integration that aligns with your existing technology infrastructure.
Datascape Building Consents is designed to promote collaboration between stakeholders within and outside your council, by enabling property owners, designers, architects, builders, other industry specialists and council staff to interact digitally in real time. This improves coordination and communication, improves transparency, reduces delays, and ultimately increases efficiency and transparency throughout the building consent process.
These benefits are unlocked through features like automated notifications and progress updates that help councils keep applicants informed about their projects. Stakeholders such as applicants and builders can also track applications online through our self-service portals, and share applications with other interested parties.
With security being of utmost importance, we employ industry-standard encryption, strict access controls, and robust authentication mechanisms to safeguard sensitive data and maintain compliance with privacy regulations. Datascape has ISO27001:2022 certification, the latest version of this international gold standard for information security management.
We provide comprehensive training resources for council staff using our end-to-end building consent software solution, Datascape Building Consents, including on-site training sessions and user guides for reference. Our dedicated support team is also available to assist with any questions or technical issues that may arise.
Absolutely. Datascape Building Consents offers reporting and analytics capabilities. You can track key metrics, generate reports, and gain insights into the building consent process to make better informed decisions regarding building processes and regulatory compliance.
Datascape Building Consents is a building consent system designed to scale with your council's evolving needs. The platform is adaptable, capable of accommodating changes in the volume of building consents and the complexity of building-related projects, and designed to easily integrate new technologies, such as AI, to cater to future changes to legislation and best practices.
To optimise your building consents processing and compliance with legislative requirements, councils should look for an end-to-end solution with these features, backed by a trusted provider:
Most importantly, your building consents software should be designed according to legislative requirements to support ongoing compliance.
