DesignSure 101

The Assessment Report

What you receive when your check completes — a provision-by-provision assessment, a full record of the values behind it, and a summary you can hand straight to your file.

What is in the report?

The report is structured in three parts, each answering a different question: what was found, what it was based on, and what the overall picture is.

Detailed assessment

Each provision in turn, grouped by division. For every one you get the regulation, the requirement in plain terms, what was required, what was measured, and the finding that follows from the two.

Assumptions — scale derived values

Every value used in the analysis, where it came from (plan annotation, data table, or scale measurement), and a confidence rating. This is the traceability and quality assurance record.

Compliance determination by provision

A single summary table listing every regulation, its status, and how that status was determined — for quick referencing and for your file.

What compliance statuses can a provision be given?

Every provision assessed returns exactly one of four statuses. A finding is never left implied — if something could not be determined, the report says so rather than guessing.

Complies

The provision is satisfied on the information assessed.

Non-Compliant

The provision is not satisfied. The report explains why, and notes where a Report and Consent application may be available.

Needs Further Assessment

Insufficient information to determine compliance. The report states exactly what is missing and what would resolve it.

Not Applicable

The provision does not apply to your project — for example, no north-facing habitable room windows on an adjoining dwelling.

How do I know where a number came from?

Following the detailed assessment, the report lists every value used in the analysis alongside its source and a confidence rating. A lot frontage read from a dimension string on your site plan is recorded as a plan annotation with high confidence. A neighbour's front setback that had to be measured off the drawing at scale is recorded as a scale measurement with low confidence, and noted as not annotated on the plans.

This matters because it tells you which findings rest on solid ground and which rest on an inference — so you can verify rather than re-derive, and so you know exactly which annotation to add to get a firmer answer next time.

What if a provision is non-compliant?

The report sets out which check failed and by how much. Where a variation may be available, it notes that a Report and Consent application can be made to the relevant council under section 188 of the Building Act 1993 — and that not all provisions are eligible for a variation, so your Relevant Building Surveyor should be consulted.

DesignSure gives you a documented, regulation-referenced position to work from. It supports your Relevant Building Surveyor's assessment; it does not replace it.

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