From Summit to System: How Leaders are Reframing New Zealand’s Building Consenting Future
Reflections from the 2025 BCA Leaders Summit – Shaping the System, Changing with Purpose
24th Oct, 2025
In October, leaders from across the building and construction system gathered at the Northern Club in Auckland for the 2025 BCA Leaders Summit — a two-day event that brought councils, MBIE, and industry together to take a hard, honest look at how New Zealand’s consenting system can evolve.
Hosted by Simpli, the Summit marked a decisive moment of recalibration — shifting the conversation from compliance and constraint toward collective purpose and performance. Across sessions and discussions, participants leaned into the same question: what would it take to truly act as one system, not many parts?