Straight answers about licences, registration and RPL.
Find out what applies to you, what documents you will need and how to avoid paying for training or preparing forms you do not need.
Qualifications
Can RPL help you get a builder licence?
Learn how RPL may replace training for skills you can already prove, and why the state licence or registration still needs a separate application.
Builder registration
DB-U or DB-L: which Victorian registration fits your work?
Compare Victorian DB-U and DB-L registration based on whether you plan to contract the whole domestic project or one defined type of work.
Builder registration
NT builder licence check: find a builder or prepare to register
Use the NT BPB register to check a builder, or learn what an experienced builder needs to prepare for a new NT registration application.
Builder licences
QBCC builder licence vs trade contractor licence
Not sure whether you need a QBCC builder or trade contractor licence? Compare the two based on whether you will quote one trade or contract the whole building job.
Qualifications
RPL evidence for builders and trades: what can you use?
A practical guide to the work records, photographs, references and training documents an RTO may consider during an RPL assessment.
Builder registration
WA builder registration: do you need practitioner, contractor or both?
A plain-English guide to WA practitioner and contractor registration for builders, sole traders, partnerships and companies.
Builder registration
BPC builder exam books: what can you use?
Find the permitted books, Standards and online references for your Victorian BPC builder exam without buying material for the wrong class.
Builder licences
NSW builder licence: what to have ready before you apply
A plain-English guide for experienced NSW tradies preparing a builder licence or qualified supervisor application.
Builder registration
Victorian builder registration: can your experience support it?
What an experienced Victorian tradie or supervisor needs to show for domestic or commercial builder registration with the BPC.
Qualifications
Can your experience count towards RPL for a QBCC licence?
Already know the work but missing the qualification? Learn when RPL may recognise your experience and how it fits into a QBCC licence application.
Builder licences
Getting your Queensland builder licence: what BLS checks
Ready to step up from tradie or supervisor to builder? See what QBCC needs, how your experience can help and how BLS prepares the application with you.
Trade contractors
Getting a QBCC trade contractor licence: what you need
Ready to quote your own trade work in Queensland? See what a QBCC trade contractor licence involves and how your experience or RPL may help.