Tauranga city officials are trying to establish if any high-rise buildings have the same building panels as London's Grenfell Tower.
Grenfell's exterior aluminium composite panel cladding is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of fire through the apartment block - killing at least 79 people.
About 600 high-rise buildings across England are being urgently tested to see if their cladding is combustible, a BBC report said.
A UK fire service spokesman said a failed cladding test did not necessarily mean a building was unsafe and it would depend on amount of cladding and where it was fitted.
The use of the cladding was restricted here on January 1 after it was also blamed for fires in Melbourne and Dubai apartments.
But Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment officials have started working with city and district councils to identify at-risk buildings.
A Ministry spokesperson said given New Zealand's Building Code criteria, it was considered unlikely that the combustible core panels had been used widely here.
"The NZ situation for building fire safety was different to the UK which relies heavily on passive-fire [measures] such as solid construction to limit rapid spread of fire and smoke."
New Zealand high rises typically had an automatic fire sprinkler system, early warning smoke detectors and building-wide alarms, the spokesperson said.
Tauranga City Council general manager environmental services Rebecca Perrett said the council was supporting the ministry's efforts.
The panels were apparently produced in different grades making it different to identify precisely which material may have been used in specific cases, she said.
Ms Perrett said the council had appointed a staff member internally to undertake the identification process with some urgency.
Tauranga mayor Greg Brownless said: "Naturally it's concerning if any of our buildings are coated in the same material as the Grenfell Tower but fortunately we do not have many high rises in the city.''
Western Bay of Plenty District Council was also investigating but said this would take some time.