Reassessments
Engineers due for reassessment
The year you are due for reassessment, your name will be published on our website to enable the public to provide evidence about whether you meet the minimum standard for registration. ​
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Reassessments
To maintain your Chartered Professional Engineer status, you need to demonstrate current competence within your area of practice. This means you must be reassessed at least every six years to demonstrate you meet the minimum standard for continued registration. ​
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This will require you to:​
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demonstrate that you are still able to practise competently in your current practice area to the standard of a reasonable professional engineer, and​
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show that you have taken reasonable steps to maintain your engineering knowledge and skills within your current practice area.  ​
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You should be able to demonstrate an ongoing programme of continuing professional development consistent with our CPD Requirements.
Reassessment pathways
If you’re due for reassessment in 2026 or later, your reassessment will be carried out under the updated CPEng Rules that took effect on 1 August 2025. These changes are designed to make the reassessment process more proportionate and risk-based, while still ensuring public confidence in the profession. We now have two reassessment pathways:
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Short: A streamlined desktop review, used when there are no known concerns or risks. Work samples are not required and an interactive assessment may not be needed.
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Full: A more in-depth assessment that includes work samples and an interactive assessment, used when additional information is needed.
We’ll assign you to a pathway using a set of defined criteria, including:
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Whether there have been any complaints or concerns made against you
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Your area of practice (structural, geotechnical, fire, recognised engineers and design verifier registrants automatically go to full assessment)
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Your previous reassessment outcome
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Whether this is your first reassessment
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Whether you are applying to change or add a practice field
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CPD compliance and referee feedback
Structural reassessment
If you’re a structural engineer due for reassessment, see our Guidance for structural reassessment candidates. It’s important to follow the guidelines provided to ensure efficient processing of your application. Your application will be reviewed by the structural triage panel.  ​
Notification of reassessment
Each year, Registration Authority reassesses over 500 CPEng registrants. To ensure these are processed as efficiently as possible, reassessments are grouped into cohorts with specific due dates throughout the year.
 
You will be notified of your upcoming reassessment at least three months in advance of your due date. It is important you provide your completed application by the due date specified in the notification sent to you.
 
The Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Rules 2025 (the CPEng Rules) (Rule 25(2)) require us to proceed with your reassessment based on the information that you have provided by the due date. This means that if you fail to submit on time, the Competence Assessment Board (CAB) may propose suspending your CPEng registration. 
Defining the standard
If your practice area has not changed materially since your last assessment:
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To meet the minimum standard for continued registration, you must demonstrate:
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You are still able to practice competently in your current practice area to the standard of a reasonable professional engineer; and
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You have taken reasonable steps to maintain the currency of your professional engineering knowledge and skills within your current practice area since your last assessment.
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If your practice area has changed materially since your last assessment: You will need to demonstrate that you meet the minimum standard for registration within your current practice area. This will require you to go through a full reassessment process to demonstrate your engineering knowledge in your new practice area.
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Minor changes to your practice area are acceptable and do not constitute a material change; for example, if you are a structural engineer who is still working in the same practice area but are now in a more management-focused role.
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Materially different changes to practice areas include: Changing to a fundamentally different engineering discipline, for example from an electrical to a structural field; or changing to a new specialisation within your field (for example, dam safety, design verification, heavy vehicle
How to prepare
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Keep track of your work and CPD
If you’re a member of Engineering New Zealand, it’s easy to keep track of your development by regularly recording your work and CPD in our member area online. If you’re not a member, you’ll need to ensure you save relevant work and CPD records and have them ready to use for your reassessment - please use Supporting Document C – CPD Activity Report to record your CPD.
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Attend an info session
Throughout the year, we host information sessions for engineers preparing for their CPEng reassessment. Keep an eye on our webinars page –to make sure you don’t miss out.
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Read through the application form
Provides you with an offline version of the online application, to help you prepare. This will help ensure there are no surprises when you start completing your application online.​​​
During the assessment
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Has your assessor requested additional work sample evidence? 
If your assessment panel requests further evidence by setting a Request for Information (RFI) in the application portal, please ensure you include a Work Sample Cover Sheet with your response.
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The cover sheet helps you clearly explain:
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the additional work samples you’ve provided
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how each sample is relevant
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which supporting documents relate to each sample
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Upload the completed cover sheet along with your work samples and any supporting evidence directly to your assignment response in the portal.