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:

• carry out a desktop review of your work history, project records and responses to the questionnaire, referee reports and any supporting evidence
• contact you to ask you some questions about the regulatory environment relevant to your work, based on the information provided in the Understanding the regulatory environment booklet in your application pack. They may also ask you about any information in your application that is not clear
• contact your referees, if required, to confirm the competence of your work on your selected projects.

Your assessor will be looking at your application 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.

Note: If the evidence you provide does not demonstrate your competence, the assessor will recommend that you have a face-to-face assessment. There will be an additional fee for this face-to-face assessment, so it is important that you think carefully about the information you are providing before you fill out the forms.

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.

If you require a face-to-face assessment you can ask for another assessor 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.