The assessment process

Once you have completed your application and sent it in to the Registrar of the Licensed Building Practitioner Scheme, you will be assigned an assessor who is experienced in the industry and trained to assess applications.

The assessor will:

• review your work history, project records and evidence checklist, referee reports and any supporting evidence
• contact you to arrange a face-to-face assessment to discuss your portfolio of work (the evidence you have collected about your projects).

At the face-to-face assessment you will be asked to talk through this portfolio of work.

Note: The assessor will also ask you some questions about the regulatory environment relevant to your type of work, based on the information in the Understanding the regulatory environment booklet in your application pack. Make sure you have read and understood the booklet before your assessment.

Your assessor will be looking at your application, including your portfolio of work, for broad evidence of your competence and whether it demonstrates, on the whole, the practical experience, skills and knowledge to meet the licence class standard.

After the assessment, the assessor may contact your referees to confirm that the work in your selected projects was done competently.

The assessor will then recommend to the Registrar whether you meet the relevant licence class standard.

What if there's a conflict of interest?

The assessors will be asked to declare whether there is a conflict of interest with any application they are assessing, such as where the person is personally known to them or is in direct business or professional competition.

Similarly, you can ask for another assessor for a face-to-face assessment if you identify a conflict of interest. You will not be able to specify which assessor you want but you will be given a list of available assessors so you can identify any conflicts.