Important guidance for beginning the building process including tips for choosing a builder and signing your home building work contract.

A complete list of building industry bulletins published for the building services and plumbing industries.

This application is for: Renewing the inc. ID requirment for Electrical Workers, Electrical Contractors, In-house Installing Work and Gasfitting Permits.

The community as a whole relies upon licensed electrical workers to provide expert advice in relation to the safety of electrical installations and equipment. This guidance note provides advice to electrical workers on what to do when they encounter an unsafe electrical installation or equipment.

This code details the requirements for vegetation control work carried out near the live conductors of overhead power lines and is to be read in conjunction with Electricity Regulations 1947 Regulation 316A.

This bulletin provides a warning to builders about the risks associated with agreeing to allow another entity to carry out building work under their building contractor registration.

This guidance note provides advice on the importance of the Multiple Earthed Neutral (MEN) connection and Earth Fault Loop Impedance verification

This General Inspection (Snapshot) Report Nine (GIR9) was undertaken to assess how well the Management and Supervision Policy and Management and Supervision Questionnaire are working in practice. The objective of GIR9 was to assess whether claims being made by applicants could be supported by evidence to ensure the policy is an effective tool for assessing these important registration requirements.

The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety – Building and Energy Division has developed a three-year, risk-based Audit Strategy to support its inspections of the work and conduct of registered builders and building surveyors and its general monitoring of how well building standards are being applied.

From 1 July 2024, new laws in Western Australia will require building engineers to be registered by the Building Services Board (the Board) to carry out, or contract with consumers to carry out,...

An overview of building disputes for the month of June 2023.

This Industry Bulletin brings to the attention of builders the importance of: completing building work in accordance with the plans and specifications referenced on the relevant certificate of design compliance (the approved plans); properly consulting prior to proceeding with work which differs from the approved plans (changes); and consulting with the appropriate building professional when it appears the approval varies from the requirements of the Building Code of Australia (BCA).