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From: Bernard O <[FOI #29206 email]>; 
Received: Thu Nov 14 2024 22:55:33 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: GRU Jobs <[Kāinga Ora request email]>; 
Subject: Official Information request - Current cost of delivering houses
under the Velocity and HDS model and other business details

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Dear Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities,

Over the past several years Kainga Ora has developed the Velocity, then
renamed Housing Delivery System (HDS), building method, which Minister
Bishop claimed is the only good thing the Labour Government achieved.

During its existence exactly how many lettable units have been delivered,
by financial year, using only the Velocity/HDS system?

During the same period above, how many lettable units have been delivered
under the Construction and Innovation teams?

During the same period, what is the Whole Of Life Cost (per the crown
legislative description WOLC), of the Velocity/HDS housing systems
including all preconstruction, all external consultancies and contractors,
all internal resources by wages, all consenting costs, and all
construction delivery costs incurred for the entire programme? Exclude
shared centralised services within Kainga Ora.

What is that WOLC of the Velocity/HDS model, divided by the number of
units physically delivered per financial year, as a per unit cost, by
financial year?

During the same period, with the same whole calculation of contributed
spend as above, what is the WOLC of the Construction and Innovation
delivered units, as a per unit cost?

How many lettable units has the Velocity/HDS team demolished, where new
lettable units have not been established on those pieces of land to this
day?

Same question above for Construction and Innovation demolitions?

How many of the demolitions mentioned above, had FULL BRIEF APPROVAL to
proceed with redevelopment vs how many were demolished without full
approval to proceed with redevelopment, split by Velocity/HDS and C&I?

Of the above 2 answers, how many of those undelivered sites are currently
underway and expected to be completed in FY25, split between the two
programmes?

How many sites has Velocity/HDS worked on, where Construction and
Innovation teams completed the preconstruction and/design phases and were
then required to pass across to Velocity/HDS, over the past whole period?

How many sites has Velocity/HDS worked on, including preconstruction,
where the site was then passed to Construction and Innovation because it
couldn’t fit the Velocity/HDS delivery model?

How many sites has Velocity/HDS started work on, including
preconstruction, where the site was paused or cancelled because it
couldn’t fit the Velocity/HDS delivery model?

What are the reasons why those Velocity/HDS projects were either paused,
cancelled, or passed onto C&I to complete, separated and numbered by main
category?

What is the total cost of preconstruction, planning, consulting, design,
consents of the sites Velocity/HDS were unable to complete, and was that
cost included in the WOLC of the delivered lettable unit calculation?

What has been the ongoing employment costs of all Velocity/HDS staff,
internal and external, including all external consultants on fixed term
contracts, by month and financial year over the entire period? (Excluding
shared centralised resources)

What has been the ongoing employment costs of all C&I staff, internal and
external, including all external consultants on fixed term contracts, by
month and financial year over the same period? (Excluding retrofit staff
and consultants, and shared centralised resources)

What has been the cost, per financial year, of the Velocity/HDS teams
additional private building leased in Newmarket Auckland?

Multipart question: What is the cost, per financial year, of the main
Kainga Ora Newmarket building? And; how many seated desks with monitors
were set up in that entire main Newmarket office in 2022? And; how many of
those desks have now been left unusable over the past 1-2 years because
the monitors were removed to be instead taken to the Velocity/HDS
building, rendering large parts of the main leased building unusable?

Yours faithfully,
Bernard O.

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