DB-U or DB-L: which Victorian registration fits your work?
Compare registration for whole domestic projects with registration for a defined type of building work.
Read the application guide Victoria · BPC
Apply for Victorian builder registration using the experience you already have.
Already working as a carpenter, supervisor or builder? BLS brings your experience and evidence together, identifies what is missing and helps prepare your domestic or commercial registration application for BPC assessment.
What you need to know
How builder registration works in Victoria.
Victoria calls it builder registration. The Building and Plumbing Commission (BPC) assesses Domestic Builder and Commercial Builder applications and makes the final decision. Each class covers different work and has its own experience, qualification and referee requirements. You do not need to choose DB-U, DB-L or a commercial class before speaking with BLS.
VIC application guides
Get ready for a Victoria registration application.
Use these guides to understand the classes, experience requirements and application steps before you apply.
Can your Victorian building experience support registration?
See how projects, responsibility, qualifications and registered technical referees work together in a BPC application.
Read the application guideBPC builder exam books: what can you use?
Use the class on your exam invitation to find the current permitted books, Standards and online references.
Read the application guide Registration options
What are you applying for in Victoria?
Choose the option closest to your situation. You do not need to know the exact registration class before speaking with BLS.
Domestic builder registration
For carpenters, foremen and supervisors ready to move into domestic builder registration. BLS checks whether DB-U, DB-L or a conditioned DB-U application may fit your experience.
View this serviceDomestic Builder Limited
Already working in carpentry, framing, waterproofing or another defined area? A DB-L class may let you register for that specific type of domestic building work.
Commercial builder registration
For builders and supervisors ready to put their commercial project experience towards registration in their own name. BLS checks the likely unlimited or limited class and prepares the supporting material.
View this serviceMutual recognition into Victoria
Already registered or licensed interstate? Your current licence may be recognised in Victoria. Check the likely equivalent and any local restrictions first.
What BLS does for you
Get the application sorted before you lodge.
We check what you can apply for, show you what is missing and help prepare the forms and supporting documents.
Know what to apply for
Tell us what you do now and what you are trying to move into. We check the licence or registration that fits.
Find out what is missing
We review the qualifications, projects, licences and referees you already have, then tell you what else is needed.
Get the application ready to lodge
We help complete the forms, prepare the supporting documents and check the details before you submit them.
Your next step
Start the 60-second check
Start with the 60-second check.
Get clear on your likely licence, gaps and next step before you pay for training or start pulling the paperwork together.