This document is published as of 21 04 2020.   My name is Paul Rivers, my phone number is 06 376 5555 and my email address is paul-rivers@xtra.co.nz. I have been a full-time professional draughtsperson for over fourteen years now and in the last five years of that, I have also been an architectural draughting software automation producer.   INITIAL SUMMARY I have developed an online training course for draughtspersons. It will fix an existing gap that I have identified in the industry. It needs to be made eligible to be purchased by students with their student loan capacity. Without this students will not be able to afford it and the industry gap will remain. All below is purpose design written so that those tasked within the relevant necessary applicable organizations may be able to provide me with a simplified-exact direction of action to take to achieve the requested. So far I have spoken to five people and not received this.   CURRENT INDUSTRY SITUATION Draughtspersons produce plans for new houses and alterations and additions to existing houses. These plans are then processed by the council and granted building consent. There is no actual draughting training facility in this day and age that actually trains draughtspersons. There are a number of architectural technology courses available but they have not kept up with the industry advancements since the water-damaged house syndrome became public knowledge in 2002. What this means is that since 2002 a set of plans for a new house was approximately between 5% and 10% as detailed as they are required to be today. This has been a gradual evolution since then, however, the Auckland and Wellington universities, UCOL and Polytech training establishments have not kept up with this rapid advancement of the complex mass of knowledge in their curriculums. How I know that this is a fact is because I have interviewed twenty-eight students from Student Job Search who all applied for my vacancy as a junior draughtsperson. Although they had all been trained to operate Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, they all had very little other knowledge of what is actually required to complete a full set of plans worthy of building consent for this day and age. I have also researched every course possible that is associated with draughting plans for building consent and confirmed this from that angle as well. The reality for experienced draughtspersons wishing to employ freshly trained junior draughtsperson is that there is no such thing. Even though they may have their Architectural Technology Degrees or Diplomas, they still require a huge amount of training before they can produce results that are fit for purpose with minimum supervision. If they were to be personally trained, then when they have been they are free to either go into competition with the draughtsperson who trained them or start working for another draughtsperson or architect who offers more money. Therefore, because of this huge inconvenience and enormous risk, those who could personally train new draughtspersons, are now very dubious to do so. It is now apparent that unless something is done about this, the country will eventually run out of draughtspersons, then there will be fewer plans produced, with few plans there will be retardation of building growth, this will, in turn, disrupt the entire construction industry, it will eventually implode and this will cause a prolonged semi civil recession for New Zealand. Note 1: As the existing draughtspersons will begin to retire the current relevant system functionality seems most plausibly set so that they are not going to be replaced in equal proportion. The council's cultures to date all exhibit that they will all still keep continuing to require a progressive inclusion of more and more information to need to be added to every set of plans in future for a building consent application, which in turn takes each draughtsperson longer in time to produce a set of plans. The councils doing so as said just above is not argued with here or anywhere within this document, it is purely mentioned for the necessary industry evolution cultural awareness aspect of comprehension regarding making sure that all buildings are built properly, which this awareness, in turn, helps the reader of this document to lean toward a greater comprehension of the requested. Note 2: prior to 2002 what was required to be in a set of plans made it easy to figure out how to be a draughtsperson. What was required to be in a set of plans back then has exponentially evolved. The existing draughtspersons of that day were able to ride the wave of that learning curve and keep up with it over that time. To start to learn from scratch today now renders it near impossible to do so without a very large amount of assistance. I have found a few experienced builders who disagree with this, but further questioning them I have found that a: they have not actually done so and conjecture from an assumption, and b: they seem to also exhibit self-promoting personality types. For a builder to say that because they have a lot of experience at reading plans would mean that if they wanted they could be a draughtsperson quite easily can be likened to a person who is a prolific best selling novels reader saying that because of this if they wanted they could write a great novel themselves if one day they wanted to become a writer, or perhaps with another example, a music listening connoisseur claiming that because of their study of listening to their favourite music, would allow them to write and compose great songs if one day they ever decided to become a musician. This logic of thinking suggests that the solution is as obvious as the existing architectural technology courses simply only need to catch back up with the draughting industry. However, if we think that through, that is not a simple task at all. What is needed to be known to do a full set of plans for building consent in this day and age is huge compared to what these courses are currently teaching of it (from back in 2002) and it would require an entire remake of the current curriculum. That the current lecturers, will themselves be well behind having kept up with what is required today and would need to be re-educated regarding when a: where do they get the training for that (and irony) and b: where do they find the time amidst their existing routines. To hire existing experienced draughtspersons to fulfil the role. They are already earning well above lecturer salary and not short of any work at all. To find any of them to be interested in the current industry climate would seem to probably be near impossible. To hire a research and development team. Again where do they get to find out what is required without an enormous exercise whereby they have to spend along time training themselves to be draughtspersons first before they can even begin writing the new curriculum. At any stage, if they leave, then the person who takes their place has to start all over again with this initial learning required when the irony is that there is currently nowhere available to get it. A classic catch 22 situation.   SOLUTION I have developed an online programme that teaches people to become draughtsperson. It includes everything including the CAD software for them to use. Its address is draughtingschool.co.nz Please go online and briefly examine the website, then next please register (for free, with no obligation by doing so) as a potential student and further briefly examine this part of it all. This will have you comprehend the broad style and category of a program of this type. This step will take you less than ten minutes and to not do so will tarnish your full understanding required with providing the accurate direction being requested within this document.   PROGRAM CRITERIA The program requires no personal lecturing (direct human interaction) throughout any of it – There are 166 fully detailed chapters (lectures) within all of the 24 modules. They are done via online accessible video tutorials. They are all easily accessible for review in part or in whole to be watched over as many times as is required for the student to fully grasp and also available to the student for some time after for belated revision after having purchased each module of chapters. There are also all of the written components that accompany these video tutorials. Between all of the modules and all of their chapters, the program covers everything required that if learned reasonably well will cause established draughtspersons (sole traders or companies) to accept the potential graduates for full-time employment. The program provides free access to all of the relevant industry standards and associated publications that all draughtsman need to be fully informationally equipped with. All 166 chapters are tagged within each tutorial module to make finding them for revision a very quick and easy process. All of the modules and their subcategory chapters have been either strategically elaborated upon with a multitude of picture examples or information references as well as also made succinct where required for important points of understanding. The video tutorials are fifty-nine hours in total and all of this time is pure fact delivery with its associated explanations – there is no stocking filler/dead time, the fifty-nine hours is fully focused time. However, as the students progress through the modules the student is also instructed when to revise previous chapters before progressing. This creates two effects, 1. the student to end up spending three to five times longer analysing the tutorials, 2. The student to be afforded with this technique to retain in their memories what they need to remember forever after. The multitude of practical plans production exercises leads the student to have to research the mass of government building standards chapters and all of the associated MBIE relevant publications required to become a fully information equipped draughtsman. It is estimated that these practical exercises will take students between 200 and 300 hrs depending upon the student's personal efficiency or current relevant knowledge base. It could be easily possible to take this course and expand it out into a classroom slow delivery information course that restricts all of the students on that course into being educated at the rate required for a still relatively immature recent high school leaver to keep up with. Question: Is it fair that for a course to qualify for student loan eligibility that it must be stretched out into a length of necessary required time that would qualify it to be eligible for students to be provided with student loan financial assistance access to it – does an efficiently superior delivery of all required training information render a disadvantage for the students to have access to such a course via their student loan eligibility, especially when this course is filling a crucial gap in the industry? This course could be done privately by anyone or amalgamated into an existing authorized education providing facility. The difference is that a retired builder could afford to do this course where a young person will not be able to afford to. Therefore this is where this course needs to be affiliated with the student loan scheme for young people/students to be afforded access to it. The course can be done from any computer or tablet that has access to the internet – this course has no required external involvement from its online internet-based remote ease of accessibility. As the plans production industry continues to evolve as said, then the relevant chapters within the program will also be updated to keep up with this. This course has been made extremely affordable considering what actual future potential it creates for the student. The assessment of all students to qualify as having passed the course (in whatever qualification that may be - yet to be determined from the requested advice) is as simple as watching them via Skype as they produce a series of different full plan sets within a given time frame.   END SUMMARY Over the past eighteen years there has grown to be the need for a new education subject – qualification category/subject/course, being specific training for the sole profession of a ‘Draughtsperson’. Prior to this industry wake up call, becoming a draughtsperson was an easily self-taught thing. However, after the 2002 awareness, the vast complexity of what is required to be in plans today has sneaked up and been over sighted by the educational training parts of the building industry. This oversight could cause a widening gap, of which I have as said identified and consequently fully developed a solution that is already set to go right now. Its primary mandate is to prevent the said potential economic ailment from spreading if it is left unrecognized and unaddressed. draughtingschool.co.nz is already fully set up and ready to prove a substantial benefit to the country if it is given the ability to do so. This requires that tertiary education students are given the ability to purchase it from their student loan ability – all within this document is purpose design written so that those tasked within the relevant necessary applicable organizations may be able to please provide me with a simplified/exact direction of action to take to achieve the requested, not only for the best interests of the current and recently past architectural technology students, but also for the overall best economical health interests of this country.   REQUEST To all relevant people concerned, please tell me what to do and in what progressive order, now that the actual nature and its associated requirement of this program has been made fully clear throughout all of the above. Please also phone me for any questions that you may have to assist you with doing so.