If your Marae has a building project coming up, you’ll most likely need support to go through the ‘Te Ahi Kaa: Te Whare Marae technical feasibility and building support’ stage of the project and funding process.
Here at Arcline we’ve helped many Marae through this process, and it sets the project up in the best way possible for getting the required funding from Oranga Marae, which is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.
What does Technical Feasibility mean?
‘Technical Feasibility’ most commonly refers to a step in the Marae funding process. This is if in your Marae Development Plan you have desired to upgrade or replace some of your buildings, and the Technical Feasibility stage refers to the scoping, plans, consultant input, and getting permits and consents part of the project.
Funding for Technical Feasibility Support
As explained on this page, you can get funding to help pay for consultants like ourselves, and others such as engineers, surveyors and to help cover the cost of consents with local council. Here are some examples:
- Specialist advisor and or author
- Environmental assessment, conservation, archaeological and heritage reviews
- Design costs such as concept drawings or architectural design plans
- Consent and approvals such as heritage authorisation, resource consent, building consent
- Maintenance plan
- Conservation report
- Current condition report of place, structure, property or taonga
- Seismic strengthening reports and structural engineering reports
- Fire reports
- Property valuations reports
- Geological assessment or geotechnical reports
But remember, all applications for technical/feasibility support must have:
- A detailed budget setting out costs of the report/s
- A quote for services that will be undertaken.
What is the outcome of the Technical/Feasibility step?
The aim of this step of the process is to get all the plans and consents and preconstruction work done so the project is ready to build, before applying for funding and grants to carry out the work. It gives Oranga Marae representatives a good understanding that the project is shovel-ready, and that if they allocate you funds, they’ll be spent wisely and for the benefit of your Marae.
How We Can Help
We’ve worked with a large list of Marae who have been going through exactly the same process are you are for their project and securing funding. The key to making your project a success is getting an experienced team of consultants onboard to give you the best chance possible at getting the required funding.
That is why you should reach out to the Arcline Team today, and we’ll help you bring your project to life.